automatic link detection inside stream entries
By Sabih on Monday, 08 February 2016
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Hey there,

I just recognized that the moment someone does not make a space character after a point, EasySocial detects this automatically as a link.

Like writing something.This would result in: http://something.This

Due to this I got some entries marked as links with impossible links inside that just happened because of this detection. I think having an automatic detection is great but I would prefer set this to anything followed by http://. Is this defined in a file to be able to changed this by myself?
Hey Sabih,

I am really sorry for the delay of this reply as it is actually a public day off for us here. Hm, the reason that we actually made the "http" optional is because sometimes when you type for instance, stackideas.com , it should be a hyperlink.

There's 2 work around that I could think off but I am still skeptical about explicitly detecting "http/s:" in the text.

1. Always enforce urls to be prefixed with http:// or https:// (This is going to be pretty annoying if I just type in stackideas.com)

2. Perform some tests on the "detected url" to see if it is a valid domain
Mark
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Monday, 08 February 2016 18:26
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Hm, sounds convincing. Thank you for your reply. Option 2 might be cool in a future release though I am not sure about how complicated this might be.
Sabih
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Wednesday, 10 February 2016 19:18
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#2 is not that complicated but you will find the system being less responsive as you type because the system needs to check for a valid URL
Mark
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Thursday, 11 February 2016 02:01
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Hey Sabih,

Just to follow up with you about this, in 1.4.8 we have added this option internally. See my screen shot here, http://screencast.com/t/UjGPcLrV1c

When this option is activated, whenever you type the text "testing.this" without the quotes, EasySocial will first crawl the site to see if the site url is valid before trying to do anything.
Mark
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Sunday, 21 February 2016 23:39
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Words can not describe how great your support is! Thank you very much Mark.
Sabih
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Monday, 22 February 2016 07:57
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You are most welcome Sabih
Mark
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Monday, 22 February 2016 12:03
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Mark wrote:

Hey Sabih,

Just to follow up with you about this, in 1.4.8 we have added this option internally. See my screen shot here, http://screencast.com/t/UjGPcLrV1c

When this option is activated, whenever you type the text "testing.this" without the quotes, EasySocial will first crawl the site to see if the site url is valid before trying to do anything.


I have the same issue with this : http://screencast.com/t/QxfGyI6eLV
doodee
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Friday, 26 February 2016 21:18
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Hey there,

I believe I already reply you on your original thread.
-> http://stackideas.com/forums/broken-link-on-shared-a-link-stream
Arlex Wong
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Saturday, 27 February 2016 13:58
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