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Title: Why the invisible links?
Post by: Fitz on May 19, 2022, 09:21:13 PM
Is there some valid reason for making links within posts invisible?

By which I mean that they're formatted by the boards' styling to look exactly like all the rest of the text. Unless the link is published as the entire URL (i.e. https://blahblahblah.com/blahblah.html) then there's no visual indication that any given word or phrase might be a hyperlink.

It's a poor design decision from the point of view of usability. Hyperlinking is at the very core of the internet, and making links harder to find is a bad idea.
Title: Re: Why the invisible links?
Post by: zemjw on May 20, 2022, 10:15:44 AM
Yup, agreed  :(

I always enclose mine with "u" tags, so at least they look like proper links, eg

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[u][url=xxx]link text[/url][/u]

It's okay to type that on a full-sized keyboard, but has far too many hoops to jump through on a tablet or phone o_o
Title: Re: Why the invisible links?
Post by: Cherno on May 20, 2022, 10:35:38 AM
I agree, it's annoying. I circumvent it by encapsulating links in bold or teal-colored markers.
Title: Re: Why the invisible links?
Post by: Ray Rivers on May 20, 2022, 12:44:26 PM
Just use the color tabs... its been like this for years and years.
Title: Re: Why the invisible links?
Post by: fred on May 20, 2022, 05:45:44 PM
This feels that it should be an easier config setting within the SMF admin interface, and at its most complex a couple of lines of CSS to update the colour for links (and probably those lines exist already as the default is to use a different colour for links, so it’s just the colour values that need changing away from Black)
Title: Re: Why the invisible links?
Post by: FramFramson on May 20, 2022, 07:17:14 PM
Yes, it's a bit of work, but I always colour (navy) and underline my links here.

Would be nice if it were the same as links most everywhere online and highlighted by default.