I finally figured out what I was doing wrong when putting links in posts. Silly me was putting the words I wanted to appear outside the square brackets and creating a link with no words to click on.
So for any other people needing a super-basic linking walkthrough, you put the words you want to show in square brackets followed immediately by the link in normal brackets. [words](link)
Which is a very sensible thing to do. I was going with pasting the link and then clicking the icon which was really not working for me. I’m slowly learning.
That would do it. But it doing that is a bit of a nostalgic reminder for how Reddit used to do spoiler tags before they implemented them properly.
You basically put a link [with the spoiler](#s and hid the spoiler text like a URL, like so) [withthe spoiler](#s and hid the spoiler text like a URL, like so), unfortunately, it doesn’t work as well when it comes to Jerboa and apps, since there’s no way to see a link without trying to go to it straight away.
I finally figured out what I was doing wrong when putting links in posts. Silly me was putting the words I wanted to appear outside the square brackets and creating a link with no words to click on.
So for any other people needing a super-basic linking walkthrough, you put the words you want to show in square brackets followed immediately by the link in normal brackets. [words](link)
I usually type the word(s) I want to be clickable, highlight it/them… click the link icon, then immediately paste the link.
Which is a very sensible thing to do. I was going with pasting the link and then clicking the icon which was really not working for me. I’m slowly learning.
I’m thoroughly enjoying the ability to ! In front of the brackets for pictures in post.
ah, like this you mean?
That would do it. But it doing that is a bit of a nostalgic reminder for how Reddit used to do spoiler tags before they implemented them properly.
You basically put a link [with the spoiler](#s and hid the spoiler text like a URL, like so)
[with the spoiler](#s and hid the spoiler text like a URL, like so), unfortunately, it doesn’t work as well when it comes to Jerboa and apps, since there’s no way to see a link without trying to go to it straight away.