I am glad people are enjoying the [link] thing. It was far and away the simplest piece of coding in that last batch.

I was thinking of extending it to either show the domain of the link (like: [www.site.org]) or to enable provision of the anchor text, with {raw url}::check this out:: becoming check this out.

Thoughts?

I agree with the first (I find I don't click on [link] much because it lacks context).

As for the second -- it's another thing to learn. And once you're learning, why not learn something transferable like t a href="" instead?

As for the second -- it's another thing to learn.

That is precisely what was bothering me about it. Not so intuitive.

I forget, ita, is the code in gus.buffistas the one to work with? I also need to look at the hypenation thing.

I guess I like the [Link] because it does what it was meant to, and that is cut down on the long links that make our margins go batty.

Anyone who wants to code like before still can, so for the board's ease of readability, it's still a plus.

And I'd like to thank Gus for the post "continued" program. It's just great to see people's reactions to realizing they don't have to figure out where their post left off, etc. Invariably a word like "nifty" shows up in a subsequent post.

I'm with ita.

But, you know, not in a biblical way. Or in a Sex and the City way. Or, in fact, in any way other than agreeing with her wholeheartedly.

Please don't hurt me.

I don't link often ... is there a new way to do it now? Other than how the HTML box tells me (because, yes, I have to look every time).

Gimme a little bit, Gus, and I'll copy over exactly what's in production.

Yeah, I like the first option too. Or maybe even something that gives the first whatever of the relinked link, or possibly the last. I dunno. I guess I get my context out of the domain name (first) and file name (last) and in the interest of shortening, I'm not sure that's accomodateable. I am like ita in that I am less likely to click on [link] just because I dunno what it is. Even when people posted "click on this" I would mouseover the link to see what the text of the link actually was, to know if I was interested or not.

Not being particularly helpful. Just providing feedback.

The Gus is doing Good Work.

I was thinking of extending it to either show the domain of the link (like: [www.site.org])

I like this a great deal. It piles coolness on coolness.

JenP, if you just write the link into the post it now shows up as [link]. So this: [link] should be a link to Buffistas. (I think? I haven't actually used it yet.)

ETA: Yes! I'm right. Go me!