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I have no idea if this has been reported and what impact it does if any. A random "https" gets autoinserted in some replies in the chatroom. I've seen it from others and today it showed in mine. I've only observed these in the Lounge.

I didn't try to attach a link or anything. The reply was "I'm great.thanks."

From my previous observations, it used to create a hyperlink on alphanumeric characters that has a dot in between where there should be a space.

Eg. great.thanks switches to a null hyperlink. Recently it inserts https before the underlined text.

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I have asked the development team to look at this. Thank you.

To me it just looks like you've hit the . Instead of space, followed immediately by other characters, so the service thinks you are short-handing a website - it's filling in the rest of the expected address. It's kind of logical.

Obviously I could be completely wrong though.

**edit I have just purposely done the above and it is (seemingly) what has happened in the OP.

Yeah, Georgia's right. I'm not sure how the site can guard against typos! Every messaging service that auto-inserts links on things it thinks you meant to be one, is going to behave similarly. Granted, it might not add the 'https' to the text too, so maybe that bit needs looking at. The dev team have been made aware of it.

But the general principle behind this behaviour is if you type two words connected by a dot and no spaces, it's going to assume you mean a web link.

(Edit: remember that famous one where a mother sent a text message to her daughter and ended it with "love mom.xxx" and it auto-linked to a porn site 😂)

Inadvertent insect links!

Quote by WannabeWordsmith

Yeah, Georgia's right. I'm not sure how the site can guard against typos! Every messaging service that auto-inserts links on things it thinks you meant to be one, is going to behave similarly. Granted, it might not add the 'https' to the text too, so maybe that bit needs looking at. The dev team have been made aware of it.

But the general principle behind this behaviour is if you type two words connected by a dot and no spaces, it's going to assume you mean a web link.

(Edit: remember that famous one where a mother sent a text message to her daughter and ended it with "love mom.xxx" and it auto-linked to a porn site 😂)

How about a few lines of code that parses the putative weblink and if the characters after the dot aren't com/org/gov/co./tv inter alia (I'm sure a list exists) then don't assume it's a link.

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How about a few lines of code that parses the putative weblink and if the characters after the dot aren't com/org/gov/co./tv inter alia (I'm sure a list exists) then don't assume it's a link.

There is something like 2,000+ TLD's on the internet. A number which I am sure is evergrowing.

It would have to be some list just to cancel out an action which maybe two or three people, from thousands on the site have mistakenly made happen - by putting a period and space in the wrong place.