How can I post a link

The forum is suffering from yet another ailment. I've seen several reports of the same issue, as well as seeing the issue reported to the moderators.

recommend that you post something like this for the time being...

"Copy this string > www.apple.com/feedback/appletv.html < then paste it into the location bar in this page, or in a new TAB or window."

In Chrome you can right-click on the link as displayed, e.g. http://www.apple.com/feedback/appletv.html, and there is an option Go to <displayed text of link> which seems to work even when the link's actual target has been corrupted. The only helps however if the text is a valid URL rather than a description of where the link goes. In Safari Go to address works the same way.

tt2

Quite. And every previously posted external link is hosed too, it's not just new ones. The site is completely FUBAR! 😮

Digging a little deeper the problem may only be affecting http links and not https, so if there is a secure route to the content you want to link to, use that.

Compare http://www.apple.com/ with https://www.apple.com/.

tt2

These links are getting weirder and weirder...

To wit:

Here is a VERY old thread with links in it that HAVE BEEN changed LONG AFTER their posting (2011) = Therefore, cannot be my theory of "in between {save} and displayed post"

BUT
ON 30Apr2016, I posted two links to outside pages that remain UNAFFECTED by the unwanted conversion.

This message posted this morning has GOOD external links https://discussions.apple.com/thread/7548809?answerId=30145489022#30145489022

- the thread has previous links that point back to this message URL - AND - if you to the thread from the forum link https://discussions.apple.com/thread/7548809 those same links point back to the thread URL

This is wacky beyond belief!!!

EDITadded

The thread links I just posted seem right... I copied them from a NotePad file where I am trying to make sense of this

After a couple of more sips of strong coffee - the latter part of my post tells me that the underlying real URL anomaly is happening at the very time the page is "drawn" (HTML being created by the javascript, server side, after getting the request from the client)

curiouser and curiouser... eh, Alice?

The forum SiteWare is BROKEN.

We normally do not need to do anything special... just copy > paste any URL from anywhere at all and it works as expected

tt2 was merely putting his discovery into the "public record", methinks.

Those User Guide pages NEVER do - not even the top level ( no " /#/etc " )

Are the links broken in the email versions of the message? I don't use the email subscription feature.

tt2

YES. the message number is the message to which I am now replying - not the images shown message

But is this link to http://www.apple.com valid or not if clicked in the email?

tt2