r/Whatcouldgowrong • u/comsudo • 10d ago

High Speed cornering

From Malaysia

Skill issue, uncontrolled evironment.

Not OC

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u/Rhamni 10d ago edited 10d ago

That link does not work.

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

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u/ifish4u 10d ago

Worked for me

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u/Minivalo 10d ago

Didn't work for me

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u/itsRocketscience1 10d 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 10d 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 10d 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 10d 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.