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DaveC426913
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I've come across a bug that affects links in PMs. I don't know how wide-spread it is.
I PM'd a member, and in my PM, I included a link to a PF post (all I did was paste the URL, PF formatted it as per below).
The link itself (which goes to Lame Jokes post #6046) is correct. In the first screenshot, you can see the URL in the bottom task bar (green arrow). The second screenshot shows that one is taken to the correct post.
But look at the text that PF added when it formatted my link (red arrow). That is not the text from post #6046; it is the text from a completely unrelated post: #6024 (no idea why that one, not the same author, not even the same page).
This caused some confusion in our conversation, because the recipient saw the auto-included text and assumed I was talking about post 6024, when in fact I was talking about post 6046.
(Following the link goes to the correct post#):
I PM'd a member, and in my PM, I included a link to a PF post (all I did was paste the URL, PF formatted it as per below).
The link itself (which goes to Lame Jokes post #6046) is correct. In the first screenshot, you can see the URL in the bottom task bar (green arrow). The second screenshot shows that one is taken to the correct post.
But look at the text that PF added when it formatted my link (red arrow). That is not the text from post #6046; it is the text from a completely unrelated post: #6024 (no idea why that one, not the same author, not even the same page).
This caused some confusion in our conversation, because the recipient saw the auto-included text and assumed I was talking about post 6024, when in fact I was talking about post 6046.