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[-] Pons_Aelius@kbin.social 46 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

According to wikkipedia:

Blue and green stop signs are sometimes used on private property in Hawaii.

But they only have a picture of a blue one and not a green.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Blue_stop_sign_-_hawaii_-_oct_2015.jpg

So my guess is photoshop.

[-] takeda@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

Fixed link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Blue_stop_sign_-_hawaii_-_oct_2015.jpg

How did you get those back slashes there? I thought it was only happening in reddit.

[-] Pons_Aelius@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Your fixed link and mine look exactly the same here on kbin. Both link to the image correctly.

So I'm not sure where the error lies.

Kbin does not like to link to URLs that end in a filename.

EG: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Blue_stop_sign_-_hawaii_-_oct_2015.jpg

It ignores the link text [Blue Stop Sign] completely and just posts the link.

[-] Pazuzu@midwest.social 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

your link shows a \ before each underscore in the visible text for me in both comments, like this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Blue\_stop\_sign\_-\_hawaii\_-\_oct\_2015.jpg and hovering or clicking the link replaces that \ with %5C, so the entire thing tries linking to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Blue%5C_stop%5C_sign%5C_-%5C_hawaii%5C_-%5C_oct%5C_2015.jpg. clicking 'source' on those comments shows just the \ before each underscore

no idea what's causing it, super weird to have the same bug messing with links that reddit does

[-] elmicha@feddit.de 4 points 1 year ago

The underscore is used to underline text in Markdown. If you want to display a real underscore like this: _, you have to escape it with a backslash. Some clients apparently interpret this rule even in plain links, and some don't. If we use real Markdown links this should not happen.

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