• Rusty Raven M
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    101 year ago

    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)

    • Lodion 🇦🇺M
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      1 year ago

      I usually type the word(s) I want to be clickable, highlight it/them… click the link icon, then immediately paste the link.

      • Rusty Raven M
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        51 year ago

        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.

    • BriongloidM
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      21 year ago

      I’m thoroughly enjoying the ability to ! In front of the brackets for pictures in post.

    • @T156
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      11 year ago

      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.