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How can I add a clickable magnet link to a post? [duplicate]
How can I add a clickable magnet link to a post?
I unsuccessfully tried:
[data](magnet:?xt=urn:btih:5f96d43576e3d386c9ba65b883210a393b68210e&tr=https%3A%2F%2Facademictorrents.com%2Fannounce.php&...
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Debugging links that don't display correctly in chat (without making a big mess) [duplicate]
In Politics's Agora chat room I posted this text and the display was unsatisfactory because the links didn't show nicely.
I expected something like this (except with text dashes instead of the ...
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Problem with link to text fragment [duplicate]
When I write a link to a text fragment, like this, the link works in the editor preview properly (on the linked page skips to the given text fragment and highlights it), but on the published question, ...
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Is there a tag on MSE for the block of links under the post body and above the comments?
Is there a tag that can be used for questions related to the block of links under the post body? (share, edit, close, delete, flag)
If there's not, how can we name it?
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Can I generate referral URLs with the full question title?
When I want to share a question, I can either share a link with the full question title:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/75290101/could-match-start0-ever-return-1-in-python
Or I can use a ...
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SEDE does something weird with URL parameters
Can somebody explain what happens in this SEDE query? It's a very simple one, apart from the use of a parameter:
PRINT ('%href="##url##"%')
but somehow SEDE decides to append part of its ...
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Can I "backtrack" intra-SE links?
Is it possible to find questions/answers/comments that link to a given question/answer/comment?
Suppose someone were to ask a question about the rotation of the Earth. Someone else notices that this ...
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What does the integer ending a Saves list URL mean?
What is the meaning of the integer at the end of a Saves list URL? For example, my first Saves list has the following URL:
https://stackoverflow.com/users/saves/10794031/75
Why is the last number 75?
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Fix broken links to Virtual Laboratories in Probability and Statistics
There are quite a few links in the network (148 when I'm writing this, mainly on Cross Validated, Mathematics and MathOverflow) to the Virtual Laboratories in Probability and Statistics hosted at ...
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Is it possible to see if a post has been linked somewhere?
Is it possible to see if and toward what a post (question or answer or comment) has been linked? For example if you click here you get to the main meta.se page but is it possible to see that that page ...
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Unable to add an image link from Imgur
I am trying to add an image to a question using Stack Exchange's image upload tool.
However, the link isn't accepted by the upload tool.
When I paste the URL of the image into my browser, it works ...
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How can I stop the site from expanding an URL to the title of the post?
If there is a link to a Stack Exchange post from the same site, it is automatically expanded to the title. (Unless the post is deleted.)
For example, https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/77394 renders ...
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Update Vue 2 links in all Stack Exchange sites
I'm trying to rewrite legacy Vue 2 links from https://vuejs.org/v2 to https://v2.vuejs.org/v2 across all Stack Exchange sites.
I've completed the update on Stack Overflow with a script, but there are ...
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What is a reliable way to search for URLs containing tilde?
Let us say that I want to search (on some Stack Exchange site) for posts linking to some website, and the URL contains the tilde ~. For the sake of example, let us try python.net/~goodger. (I ...
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Inline JavaScript Markdown renderer does not reflect server-side C# limitations: can not stylize URL links
If you link to an answer with just a link it'll get expanded in the inline preview (as such the below is just https://stackoverflow.com/q/28508017/124486 getting expanded to the title of the question),...
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Hyperlinks do not work if they are inside square brackets
I can imagine situations when somebody might include a bare URL in post. And the link might even be between [ and ] - if it is a part of some explanatory remark.
It seems that in such cases the link ...
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Does the bulk replacement tool also check if the new link is working?
Sometimes (on the request of the local community), the CMs mass replace some dead links by new ones. See, for example, this post (and Shog9's answer): How to find and/or change a set of hyperlinks on ...
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What do we do when we don't have any prior research that we can share?
Yesterday, I asked this question on the Biology SE. Shortly after posting, I received a comment saying that a close vote has been posted and stating the ways in which I can improve the post. The main ...
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Can the mass-replacement tool also replace and remove?
Stack Exchange staff has a tool which can change a bunch of links without bumping the edited posts, see here: How to find and/or change a set of hyperlinks on a site?
In the situation that I've seen ...
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A Share link does not populate the "Linked" questions when added before undeletion
I was perplexed why a shared link to an answer in an answer was not populating the Linked section on the right-hand side.
It turns out, it's because I edited in the link while the post was deleted ...
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Issue putting a URL with special characters [duplicate]
I am having difficulty placing the following URL in my post here, which if I copy and paste the link into my Google Chrome, it works perfectly fine.
https://www.dsprelated.com/freebooks/filters/...
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Why is there an Ubuntu contact link in the contact pages of many SE sites?
This might be related to the cause of the issue: Change the links in Ask Ubuntu contact page
I visited MSE's "Contact" page and noticed this:
Why is there an Ubuntu contact link in MSE's &...
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Modifying existing SEDE query to output the post's URL
There is this existing SE Data Explorer query: All my posts on the SE Network
The query is awesome and works great with one small flaw (IMO). It outputs a "Post ID" which is useless for me ...
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Why does the "feedback" link at the bottom of a Stack Exchange site go to that site's Meta?
Or, in other words, why is the link to Meta called "feedback" and not "Meta"?
For every SE site I've looked at on my Android phone in "full site" mode, there is a link ...
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Markdown not recognizing characters in URLs, redux: dollar sign
I have two links which I am trying to use in an answer:
[10–4–5 (for Terminal facilities)][3]
[6–4–4 (for Enroute facilities)][4]
and two URLs which those links should point to:
[3]: https://www.faa....
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Why does Stack Exchange use a number in its question URLs?
Stack Exchange question URLs are in the format:
https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/36714/logic-behind-stackoverflow-question-ids
The number part is the ID of the question. The URL would be more ...
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I can get an already-logged-in window clicking on a post link in chat, but not in another post. I have to re-login a lot; by design? (Safari private)
I use private browsing if/when I use macOS + Safari.
When I right-click a link in one SE post to another SE post and open it in a new tab I must log in to SE in that tab all over again. If I don't ...
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Best practices and advice how to shorten links to comments when including them in other comments? Can I safely drop the noredirect=1?
When adding links to comments within other comments I often want to shorten them so that I can add fit more plain text within the character limit.
I usually start by removing the words of the title ...
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Why do Stack Exchange URLs expand to include an additional fragment to the route?
A Stack Exchange question URL has the form:
stackexchangesitename.com/questions/question-id
A Stack Exchange user profile URL also has a similar form:
stackexchangesitename.com/users/user-id
However,...
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Why do magic links, that work in comments, not work in posts?
DSP.SE
^ is actually
[DSP.SE](dsp.stackexchange.com/)
As a comment, it renders, but it changes text and inserts the URL separately:
What's the deal?
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Does Cyrillic copy/pasted from a Wikipedia definition kill proper display of hyperlinks in comments, but not in posts?
I tried to quote Wikipedia in a comment:
For space-word-deficient folks like myself Zarya (Russian: Заря́, lit. 'Dawn'[b]), also known as the Functional Cargo Block or FGB (from the Russian: "...
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How can I view the links in the profile description of a user without the required 10 reputation?
When a user gets suspended, their reputation drops to 1, which means that the links in their profile description can't be viewed by the readers. Example:
profile description before account ...
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Changing the site from a full URL redirects to a valid page
While I was viewing this post, I wanted to redirect to the skeptics site, so I changed the earthscience part of the URL to skeptics. This took me to this post. Is there an explanation behind this?
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How can I get URLs and site names for a cross-site SEDE query?
When doing cross-site queries on the Stack Exchange Data Explorer, two of the main problems are 1) getting the URLs right and 2) getting the site names right. For URLs, we have constructions like the ...
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How does the question seeding work?
When I first found this network (from Math SE), I was questioning why the question seed was combined along with the answers.
If I were to look at the revisions, the link would show posts instead of ...
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Links to comments when the title has been edited
On a Stack Exchange site, you can get a link to a comment if you click on the timestamp next to the comment. The exact URL might be a bit different depending on the way you arrived to the comment. In ...
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Built-in (or recommended safe) way to post a link to an image inside a comment? [duplicate]
Screenshots are so useful. Is there a built-in way to upload an image that produces a link that can be shared inside a comment (since images can't be put into comments directly)?
If not, what is a ...
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Extra slash added to the chat room URLs in the side bar [duplicate]
There is a extra slash added to the chat room URLs in the side bar. This is not causing any redirection issue or 404 not found error.
Just observed it and want to notify to the development team about ...
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Is there a way to "share" a link to an entire site (like we can with questions and answers)?
Sometimes I share links on Reddit to questions and answers on Chinese.SE. When sharing URLs via the "share" button, we get a link like https://chinese.stackexchange.com/q/42218/8099 wherein ...
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Why are there no domain redirects to sites with unique names?
The URL to Cross Validated is stats.stackexchange.com. How many people look for the site with the "Cross Validated" domain alias? Why not set up a redirect?
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Can you see how many times a link in your question or comment was clicked?
If you posted a link in a question or in a comment, can you see how many times the link was clicked?
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How can I link to a specific section/part to a specific answer on a specific page? [duplicate]
I was able to add <a name="JavaEnvVar"></a> name-link inside (or top-of) the section related to "Setup Java Environment Variable" in my own answer. My answer post is a ...
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What's the URL format that shows all comments expanded for all SE sites?
I want to archive some questions. But some comments are hidden because of the mechanics of how SE's UX work i.e. I have to click on show X more comments below each post.
So, like superuser.com/a/...
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When I wrote "X<CD" instead of XKCD the link in the line didn't display. Why?
In the question Can the COVID-19 genome really fit into a social media post (XKCD 2299), is this ever done in practice? I had a typo which caused the link not to show:
X<CD 2299 [Coronavirus ...
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Link to old community go.stackexchange.com now directs to www.golinks.io
In 2011, I posted a link in the comments of https://boardgames.stackexchange.com/a/5511/60
At the time, this link connected to another question on the same website, which was go.stackexchange.com, ...
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Are Stack Exchange URL parameters defined anywhere? [duplicate]
Are the parameters used in Stack Exchange URLs defined anywhere?
For example, I just encountered a stackexchange.com URL with rq=1, and I frequently encounter stackexchange.com URL's with cb=1.
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How can I diminish the link, writing few words? [duplicate]
When I copy a link and paste it, it can be so long. I need to shorten it. How can I do that?
How can I make a link from one word? For example, the word here.
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Why are the colors of visited and non-visited links on Academia.SE so different?
On Academia.SE, the color of non-visited links is blue, and the color of visited links is red:
However, on every other SE site I have visited, the color of visited and non-visited links are slightly ...
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Can we post links to Monica's GoFundMe page again now that donations to it are closed and she's reached an agreement with SE?
In mid-November, SE began removing links to Monica Cellio's GoFundMe campaign, under the direction of their legal team.
However, today, the campaign has been closed and is no longer accepting ...
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What exactly does "links to a legal fund campaign" mean?
I understand that links to a certain legal fund campaign will be removed.
My user name had again been changed without notice. For a few days my user name had been a broken-up URL to a short (22-line) ...
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