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@[email protected] @[email protected] following up on the comment i left for you here... i realized i can see an mbin view of that user's profile via fedia.io, and their links are in fact broken there too.
do you have any idea how/why this is happening? maybe they're using some broken client?
i also noticed that my first comment in this thread has (so far at least) not appeared in fedia.io's view of it; maybe it won't make it to your mbin instance either?
so, i am posting this comment in a reply to a comment from your mastodon account instead, in hopes that it might reach you there.
Thanks for bringing this to my attention.
@[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] I don't see broken links? Which links are broken, sorry?
It appears to be every single one of their posts and comments, as viewed from both lemmy.ml and fedia.io.
The links they're posting all have a valid URL as the text, but the destination of the link is always the relative path "
url
".For example, if you click lemmy's view source button (next to the fediverse icon) on this post you'll see this is in the post body:
[https://grapheneos.org/](url)
(so, if you click any of their links from the lemmy.ml view you'll be taken to
https://lemmy.ml/url
which is 404.)Actually I think it's not a bug in Mbin, I think it's user error hehe. It seems that @[email protected] was using the link insert button in the toolbar. But just pasted the link in the text section of the markdown.
I think the user doesn't understand markdown format very well.
I'm simply pasting the URL where the cursor is put automatically. If one is supposed to something otherwise, then IMHO it's something wrong with the app. Am I missing something? . Otherwise, I'll paste the URI without using the URL insertion method from the toolbar in the Mbin editor.
Yes you can indeed paste the URL without using markdown, that will also work fine on both Lemmy, Mastodon and Mbin. However, if you wish to use markdown that is fine as well, but then use the following format:
Allowing you to show a different text for the link, instead of only showing the URL.
OK, Thanks!
No problem