It is particularly frustrating when I just want to simply paste the link.
When I have lots of hyperlinks in a post (especially relevant in OTs), I usually copy and paste the formula throughout the post and only change the link. But now, when I try to replace a link in a code I have already created, it creates another hyperlink inside my hyperlink, messing up the whole code.
For example, I have created a hyperlink like this:
To be fair, I’ve been having this issue for over a week now, but it wasn’t troubling me enough to create a thread until today. It is probably due to the last forum update, then – so I don’t think there is anything the staff can do?
I don’t have a post where I can show the issue since I manually edit the code to be the way it was before. I know it is hard to understand – and believe me, it is even harder to describe since English is not my first language --, but the best examples I could give are in the OP.
Basically, the main problem now is that when we paste a link in the body, the link is automatically turned into a hyperlink.
So if I was to paste XboxEra’s site URL in here, this will happen:
[XboxEra - No.1 Xbox Community](https://xboxera.com/)
While this is what used to happen before the forum update:
https://xboxera.com/
Because of this change I’ve been stumbling into two problems:
I can not automatically embed links anymore. I have to paste the link and manually remove the code that turns it into a hyperlink;
If I try to replace a link inside a hyperlink I previously coded, it will create a hyperlink inside my hyperlink, breaking the code. Again I have to manually remove the code to keep just the link I want to paste.
To replicate this issue, simply copy a URL and try to paste it in a reply. Instead of pasting only the link, you will see that it is automatically creating a hyperlink – which results in the two problems I described above.
Just to be perfectly clear: it is not a bug. It was an intended change made during the last forum update that has made embedding links counterintuitive.
Edit: I’m using the version 87.0.664.47 of the Microsoft Edge browser (64 bits).
