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Which links and sites are handled specially (oneboxed) in chat? How do these oneboxes work?

There is a special linking to some sites in chat, also known as "onebox". What is the full list of supported and integrated sites? Are oneboxes updated if the resource behind them is ...
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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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What is the proper way to link to another answer on the same question?

Sometimes I'd like to link to another answer of the same question in my own answer. The simple way to do it is to copy the permalink of the answer and use that. However, that is likely to reload the ...
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How do I link (as an anchor link) to another answer on the same page? [duplicate]

Example: If I want to answer some question, and I want to link to another answer. I can link normally like: as Tsvetomir Tsonev's [answer][1]* [1]: http://stackoverflow.com/a/178450/622813 But ...
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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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What shortened URLs are available through s.tk?

It was announced on the Stack Exchange Podcast episode #23 (at 1:05:26) that Stack Exchange has its own URL shortener, http://s.tk/. Users can't create their own, they can only use the ones that are ...
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URL with multiple ending parentheses produces broken links in markdown preview

I tried to create a link to https://docs.racket-lang.org/reference/Filesystem.html?q=rktl#(idx._(gentag._305._(lib._scribblings%2Freference%2Freference..scrbl))) using Markdown in this way: [example]...
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6 answers
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Links to URLs containing parentheses

How do I add a link to a URL containing parentheses () (or "round brackets" by heathens)? For example: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa752574(VS.85).aspx The parentheses around &...
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1 answer
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What is the best way to refer to another post?

To refer to another Stack Exchange post (in this case, my own first question), should I just use the question number? copy-paste the URL? other?
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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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How to find and/or change a set of hyperlinks on a site?

One of the sites which people reference on Buddhism.SE is Piya Tan's "Dharmafarers". The URLs of reference material on that site have changed, for example: Old: http://dharmafarer.org/wordpress/wp-...
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Curly brackets in URLs [closed]

Posting a bug report on Stack Apps, I tried to link to its API docs: http://api.stackoverflow.com/1.0/help/method?method=posts/{id}/comments It was unsuccessful, and making the link explicit with [...
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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 ...
6 votes
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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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