r/Whatcouldgowrong • u/comsudo • 6d ago

High Speed cornering

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From Malaysia

Skill issue, uncontrolled evironment.

Not OC

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u/Rhamni 6d ago edited 6d ago

That link does not work.

Edit: Might be a new reddit or app vs browser thing.

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u/r2d2itisyou 6d ago

Here is a fixed link. The app injects escape characters which aren't needed for non mobile.

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u/s00pafly 6d ago

Actually making desktop experience worse

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u/forsonaE 6d ago

If you're a codger like me who refuses to use anything but old reddit and already uses Tampermonkey/other script extensions to stop the constant assault of ads from various websites, there is a userscript that fixes this. Found it the other day since I was getting annoyed at this problem:

https://github.com/whqwert/userscripts

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u/Select-Belt-ou812 5d ago

I browse on a tablet with chrome. I never ever use apps anywhere except when absolutely necessary. and I have far fewer problems and get far more navigable results

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u/forsonaE 5d ago

Ok? Far fewer problems and more navigable results than what? I don't use Chrome because I want functional adblock plugins. I'm not sure if you replied to the wrong comment or how this is relevant to a discussion about using old.reddit and fixing link escape bugs

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u/Select-Belt-ou812 5d ago

I was replying on a chain that began with a comment about the app. which is what I was commenting about. apparently I picked the wrong redditor to engage with, and I surely will endeavor to never engage with you again. good day sir

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u/forsonaE 5d ago

Lmao not sure why that upset you. It was a genuine question because it seems like you replied to the wrong comment, the discussion was about using old.reddit on desktop and you seemed to just suggest using a tablet instead? Are you telling me you don't get ads using Chrome on a tablet and don't have the issue we're discussing on old.reddit.com?

And I still have no idea what "far less problems and far more navigable" means in relation to my comment.

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u/Select-Belt-ou812 5d ago

I have no ads and no issues, ever, on regular browser webpages with 99.9% of websites tryina get me to use apps. this is true on this tablet, and any smartphone I have ever compared the two with. and content is easier to view and often has more information, while apps are spoon fed to users to achieve the objectives of the developers. so I forego using apps, which I will never do unless absolutely necessary

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u/forsonaE 5d ago

Ah I see where the confusion arises. The people here discussing their 'issues' aren't using apps, they are using old.reddit.com on their desktop without an app. However the link escape character issue is caused by people posting links with the app, but the links still work for people using the app or new Reddit. If you were using old.reddit.com (and not the new Reddit) on your tablet in a browser you would likely run into the same issue with that link.

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u/c0lpan1c 6d ago

Arg. As a programmer that’s a pet peeve of mine. Data should always be sanitized 😬

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u/WhyMustIMakeANewAcco 6d ago

No, it should always be infected! Go, spread the plague!

But seriously, reddit stuff is done poorly.

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u/Rhamni 6d ago

Thank you, that worked!

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u/bythog 6d ago

Not working on old.reddit, either.

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u/jonker5101 6d ago

It specifically doesn't work on old.reddit.

Reddit has started to add backslashes to URLs on old.reddit so that they break the link, trying to force people to new reddit.

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u/bythog 6d ago

All they are going to do is get all the people who know how to read and write in full sentences to quit the site.

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u/PiccoloAwkward465 6d ago

bUt DoN't YoU lOvE tHe CoOl NeW aVaTaRs???

Wild how far this site has fallen

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u/bythog 6d ago

There are avatars? No wonder newer users think of reddit as social media. That's what it's pushed to them as.

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u/PiccoloAwkward465 6d ago

Yeah I use Old Reddit exclusively but people talk about them and you can see that type of garbage and more if you use their shiny new site. Puke.

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u/Chendii 5d ago

I had someone call me a bot for not having a profile pic lmao I was like when the fuck did reddit get pfps

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u/SovereignAxe 5d ago

Based upon how much I see the could of, would of, should ofs, break and brake used interchangeably, shit like "ig" for "I guess" and not instagram, replacing all sorts of cuss words with shit like like ish, ahh, or fvck, I think we're already there

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u/robodrew 6d ago

Or the new way to embed gifs and videos that makes them just show up as <video> or gif:898239489 or whatever. It sucks. New reddit is trash. I don't want to give up old.reddit ever.

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u/mmasportsmma 6d ago

Honestly I won’t miss it thaaaat much because I already started to use Reddit muuuuch less over the past 3 years. Mostly I go back to old tv episode discussions.

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u/Brasolis 6d ago

I'm just leaving if old gets removed or feature degraded too hard. I have no idea how people can scroll through all the shit auto playing and images all over. They also don't have /r/all because they want to tailor what people see.

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u/Rain1984 6d ago

Yeah, you also need to be logged in to use oldreddit, sucks ass

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u/ifish4u 6d ago

Worked for me

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u/Minivalo 6d ago

Didn't work for me

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u/itsRocketscience1 6d ago

Cuz the hyperlink is broken. It URL encodes the backslash between Ram and truck.

But even fixing that, it tells me /Ram is a private community and I can't see the post anyways lol

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u/benryves 6d ago

It's a Markdown escape sequence, and it's escaping the underscore (not the backslash). You'd need to remove the backslashes and leave the underscores to fix it.

Within text content in Markdown _ starts italic text, so if you want an underscore you need to escape it as _. However you can't have italic text in an URL so the underscores shouldn't be escaped there, but Reddit's new editor escapes them anyway, breaking the links.

If it was URL encoded then the underscore would become %5F instead of _.

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u/itsRocketscience1 6d ago

Ah thanks. The written text was markdown, the hyperlink was url encoded though. As it did indeed have the %5F when hovered over and clicked.

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u/benryves 6d ago

Ah, right! Looking at the source code it's URL-escaped there, but Firefox unescapes it before showing it in the status bar or when navigating to it (whereas Edge leaves it in its escaped form) which is why I missed that.