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Markdown for links in comments sometimes breaks with angle brackets and nested square brackets
The following markdown:
[[example].com](https://www.example.com) (<https://www.example.com/abc>)
Produces this in a post:
[example].com (https://www.example.com/abc)
But this in a comment:
[[...
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Why was a straightforward link in a comment misrendered in a notification email?
In How can I do the work of Universal USB Installer from Linux?, I received the following email notification for the first comment, with a linked URL ending three characters too early:
The link ...
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Link in comments occasionally not formatted on MathJax-enabled site
Occasionally, links in comments that use MathJax do not show normally. The problem is reproducible, and browser-agnostic. It comes and goes depending on inserting a space around the closing $ ...
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Links in comments delimited by less-than/greater-than signs occasionally include the delimiting greater-than sign
Over at Stack Overflow, I wrote a comment that renders like this:
and links to https://wg21.link/p2128>, which returns 404.
The way I wrote the link in the markup is <https://wg21.link/p2128>...
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Comment links don't show up on election pages if there are query strings or parameters in the URL
In Biblical Hermeneutics' election page, the comment links (on timestamps of the comments) are clickable if I visit https://hermeneutics.stackexchange.com/election directly.
If I visit the election ...
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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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Hyperlinks not handled in comments in interaction with MathJax followed by some specific characters
On at least some¹ MathJax-enabled websites, in a comment² with a MathJax sequence immediately followed by a / or + (but not a space or a -), a subsequent [text](url) is mishandled if followed by ...
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Pre-2017 meta links remain broken in 2020
Back in 2017, SE changed their meta URL hierarchy, so their URLs are no longer meta.site.stackexchange.com, but rather site.meta.stackexchange.com. While the Community user did a good job fixing all ...
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Square brackets in hyperlinks is broken in comments
On all Stack Exchange websites, using square brackets in a hyperlink like in the following Markdown code is correctly translated into HTML in questions and answers, but not in comments:
[[class....
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Links to IPv6 addresses work as expected in answers, but cannot be used in comments
Sandbox example: https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/328811/192262
I can type http://[::1] in a question or answer, and it'll automatically turn into a link. I can also use markdown to format it as link,...
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Does the user feed actually link to comments?
On the activity tab of a user you can see user feed. This feed seems to include also comments - however, those links are in a strange format. I can just say that when I try them, they do not link to ...
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All links are not clickable in the post when commenting in iOS app
When commenting edit box is opened on some post, the all links in such post are not clickable in iOS app. For example:
App Version: 1.6.6.2
Device: Unknown (iPad7,3)
OS Version: Version 12.0 (...
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NET::ERR_CERT_COMMON_NAME_INVALID when following a link to a Meta site?
I followed a link in a comment to a Meta site (specifically, from the comment here, and instead of getting the Academia Meta site, I got the Chrome warning page:
For what it's worth, someone else ...
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Starred chat message with a comment is not parsed well
This chat message contains a link to the comment of the post. Chat message is starred, and in the starboard link not correctly parsed:
In particular clickable part of the link refers to the ...
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Comment links starting with double slashes (//) doesn't show up in linked posts [duplicate]
If the below, for example, is posted as a comment, the linked post doesn't show up in Linked in the sidebar.
[Doesn't show up in linked.](//meta.stackexchange.com/q/3122)
This seems like a bug.
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