Remove domain name after URL text

[Eldin]

When you post something like this[github.com] you can see that github.com showing after the text and it looks ugly when it's in a middle of the sentence. And if you want to post a lot of links then your post will look terrible.

It's much better when these links look like this

My suggestion is to remove those domain names after text and replace them with tooltips.
Texts will look much nicer and you could see the full link before clicking it by hovering your moose over it.

Because there's no mouse on the phone, they can add confirmation after clicking the link.
"Do you want to continue to https://github.com/Depressurizer/Depressurizer ?"

[MancSoulja]

It's done for certain sites like Twitter or Facebook, but it's there so you know where the link leads to.

For example Free Games!![freemalware.com]

Now you know your free games are actually free malware.

[cinedine]

This will not happen and it's one of the best features Steam has.

If you use the client, you won't see where the link takes you. And even in a browser many users don't know how to check this. With the domain being shown right after you will hopefully cutdown on BS like
Check my video[www.example.org]

Also note that Steam ignores link obfuscation if you try something like this and just shows you the actual target
[url=https://www.example.org]https://google.com[/url]
https://www.example.org

[Eldin]

Originally posted by MancSoulja:

It's done for certain sites like Twitter or Facebook, but it's there so you know where the link leads to.

For example Free Games!![freemalware.com]

Now you know your free games are actually free malware.

You would know where link leads because when you add tooltip, it would look like this[prntscr.com]

[cinedine]

Originally posted by Eldin:

Originally posted by MancSoulja:

It's done for certain sites like Twitter or Facebook, but it's there so you know where the link leads to.

For example Free Games!![freemalware.com]

Now you know your free games are actually free malware.

You would know where link leads because when you add tooltip, it would look like this[prntscr.com]

Or you could just have it in the text right behind so people will actually notice it.
Also, hover doesn't work on mobile and no one reads warnings. Steam already has a warning page if you leave their domain and it's frequently ignored by users. That was during the haydays of steamcommununity.com scams.

[Crazy Tiger]

Originally posted by Eldin:

Originally posted by MancSoulja:

It's done for certain sites like Twitter or Facebook, but it's there so you know where the link leads to.

For example Free Games!![freemalware.com]

Now you know your free games are actually free malware.

You would know where link leads because when you add tooltip, it would look like this[prntscr.com]

Which people don't look at, as they don't take the time to hover over a link but simply click it.

People don't even properly look at every other warning there is on Steam, you think making something less visible is helpful?

[Eldin]

They should do something. Either whitelist more websites or find another way to remove domain names after the text.
It looks really ugly because it divides an actual text and it's terrible when you're enumerating a lot of things and adding their links.
Just see how ugly my info box looks because of this, especially OS part.
Or this post for example. I added picture for every weapon and it adds domain name of where picture is hosted after every weapon name.
First I divided them with "," but then I realized that it's unreadable like that, so I had to divide them with Enter. And it still looks like crap.

[MancSoulja]

Originally posted by Eldin:

They should do something. Either whitelist more websites or find another way to remove domain names after the text.
It looks really ugly because it divides an actual text and it's terrible when you're enumerating a lot of things and adding their links.
Just see how ugly my info box looks because of this, especially OS part.
Or this post for example. I added picture for every weapon and it adds domain name of where picture is hosted after every weapon name.
First I divided them with "," but then I realized that it's unreadable like that, so I had to divide them with Enter. And it still looks like crap.

Looks alright to me, you can use

and
• before each link to make it look a little better.

[AmsterdamHeavy]

Originally posted by Eldin:

They should do something. Either whitelist more websites or find another way to remove domain names after the text.
It looks really ugly because it divides an actual text and it's terrible when you're enumerating a lot of things and adding their links.
Just see how ugly my info box looks because of this, especially OS part.
Or this post for example. I added picture for every weapon and it adds domain name of where picture is hosted after every weapon name.
First I divided them with "," but then I realized that it's unreadable like that, so I had to divide them with Enter. And it still looks like crap.

Id rather just removed masked links then in that case.

I dont care how your post looks. I care if youre trying to spoof a link.

[cinedine]

Sorry but your aesthetic feelings don't trump security.
I wish more sites would actually do it the way Steam does. Hell, it should be the bloody standard if you are linking cross-domain. Would also cut down a lot on email scams. It just hits you in the face if you read [somerussiansite.ru] right after login.yourbank.com.

[Eldin]

Originally posted by MancSoulja:

Originally posted by Eldin:

They should do something. Either whitelist more websites or find another way to remove domain names after the text.
It looks really ugly because it divides an actual text and it's terrible when you're enumerating a lot of things and adding their links.
Just see how ugly my info box looks because of this, especially OS part.
Or this post for example. I added picture for every weapon and it adds domain name of where picture is hosted after every weapon name.
First I divided them with "," but then I realized that it's unreadable like that, so I had to divide them with Enter. And it still looks like crap.

Looks alright to me, you can use

and
• before each link to make it look a little better.

It looks bad because
OS : Windows 10 [www.microsoft.com]/ Windows 7 [www.microsoft.com]/ Ubuntu 18.10 [www.ubuntu.com]/ Kali Linux 2.0 [www.kali.org]
Wouldn't this look better?
OS : Windows 10 / Windows 7 / Ubuntu 18.10 / Kali Linux 2.0

And [list] doesn't work in info box

[cinedine]

Originally posted by Eldin:

Originally posted by MancSoulja:

Looks alright to me, you can use

and
• before each link to make it look a little better.

It looks bad because
OS : Windows 10 [www.microsoft.com]/ Windows 7 [www.microsoft.com]/ Ubuntu 18.10 [www.ubuntu.com]/ Kali Linux 2.0 [www.kali.org]
Wouldn't this look better?
OS : Windows 10 / Windows 7 / Ubuntu 18.10 / Kali Linux 2.0

And [list] doesn't work in info box

Unless you are paid for link farming, why even use links?

[Eldin]

Originally posted by cinedine:

Originally posted by Eldin:

It looks bad because
OS : Windows 10 [www.microsoft.com]/ Windows 7 [www.microsoft.com]/ Ubuntu 18.10 [www.ubuntu.com]/ Kali Linux 2.0 [www.kali.org]
Wouldn't this look better?
OS : Windows 10 / Windows 7 / Ubuntu 18.10 / Kali Linux 2.0

And [list] doesn't work in info box

Unless you are paid for link farming, why even use links?

When I'm talking about something, I like to post link to it, so in case someone is interested they can just click on it instead of trying to find it on Google.

And about my info box, another reason why I used links is because I could have some text colored in blue and some in white, instead of everything being the same color.

[The End]

Originally posted by Eldin:

Remove domain name after URL text ...
When you post something like this[github.com] you can see that github.com showing after the text and it looks ugly when it's in a middle of the sentence. And if you want to post a lot of links then your post will look terrible.

I prefere that it is as it is, now it's possible to see where a link is taking you before you click it, and that is how it should continue to be imo.

Originally posted by cinedine:

Sorry but your aesthetic feelings don't trump security.
I wish more sites would actually do it the way Steam does. Hell, it should be the bloody standard if you are linking cross-domain. Would also cut down a lot on email scams. It just hits you in the face if you read [somerussiansite.ru] right after login.yourbank.com.

100% agree.

[Eldin]

Originally posted by Rockon:

Originally posted by Eldin:

Remove domain name after URL text ...
When you post something like this[github.com] you can see that github.com showing after the text and it looks ugly when it's in a middle of the sentence. And if you want to post a lot of links then your post will look terrible.

I prefere that it is as it is, now it's possible to see where a link is taking you before you click it, and that is how it should continue to be imo.

That's why we need tooltip
https://prnt.sc/n1duz5

You could see where link takes you before clicking it. It would just be shown when you put your mouse over it instead of being always shown after the text.

And we can't see where link takes you on whitelisted sites.
You don't know what is this until you click it
But with tooltip you could see the link without clicking it.

[The End]

Originally posted by Eldin:

Originally posted by Rockon:

I prefere that it is as it is, now it's possible to see where a link is taking you before you click it, and that is how it should continue to be imo.

That's why we need tooltip

As already explained, tooltips is of no use, some devices don't support it and people would not look at them, it's better as it is.