Nope, sorry. If I fix links with dashes in them I end up breaking other more important functions like posting images.
Simple URLs usually work still: New Arrivals for - The Greatest Discount on Top Quality Products at Banggood
The best way to post those long ugly URLs is by using link text like this.
why did it work before but not now?
It’s never worked correctly since the upgrade. I tried a way to fix the links, but it broke posting images.
In what way did the fix break images? It seems like automatically picking out images should be easy since the string starts with a “!” symbol.
i meant before the upgrade
It’s different code now after the upgrade, and there is an unfixed bug which will probably never get fixed.
I don’t see the ability to quote the OP on your list.
Is that not possible?
Otherwise it is a PITB re-creating the original text, like I did above.
Or trying to decipher what the OP is talking about, as in the previously mentioned: Please tell me the DIFFERENCE in these Flash Lights
The fix requires filtering for links that start with http:// before interpreting the “Textile” markup format. So it ends up seeing a Textile marked-up image link that looks something like… !<a href="http://example.com/image.jpg">! … which is wrong for Textile.
Unfortunately no.
The simplified syntax for links or images may have varying results… but writing them as regular HTML consistently works. And I greatly appreciate the way the forum allows HTML in posts; it can really make a huge difference in how expressive the posts can be.
I treat BLF’s Textile (simple post editor) format as basically the same as HTML, except that newlines get converted to <br /> tags so it’s not necessary to manually put in all the paragraph or linebreak tags. And I don’t need to remember yet another markup language in order to post here, since I can just use standard HTML. Oh, and the Textile quote tag… I use that one too. Very useful.
Most comments are fine with no extra markup, or with only images and links, maybe even light use of italic or bold. These are all pretty simple in HTML. It’s nice having the option to get fancier though, on occasion.
what?
are these forum software people on glue?
headache, dizziness and nausea are the least of their concerns >:-/
Worse. They’re on PHP. 
But seriously, Drupal isn’t primarily intended as a forum platform. It’s a complex, full-featured web app framework originally designed as a content management and publishing system, and it just happens to have a forum module which can be plugged in. It’s very … complicated. Some things are easy to change or fix, others are a bottomless rabbit hole, and it’s not easy to predict which will be which.
At least they’re not on the latest new drug. They call it being “on rails”.
Okay, Ruby on Rails isn’t really so bad. Clever design, and spurred some useful discussions elsewhere in its field. It’s just led by a rather, um, opinionated developer whose official stance toward everyone except himself is a phrase which violates BLF’s policy on obscenity.
Dangit, I’m doing it again. Off-topic rambling. I thought I was getting better about that. Maybe the time tracker thingie I just made will help me avoid these things.
Educational rambling is welcomed 
Some people ramble and what you come away with from reading their posts is not a whole lot of anything interesting. But I don’t recall that ever happening with your posts. Maybe for someone with zero interest in linux or programing. But they’ll live! Some of the best stuff I’ve read on BLF has been completely off-topic. Off-topic is not evil here. Don’t feel the need to avoid “rambling”.
forum search ???
Elaborate?
As far as I can see the little google search box is up in the corner where it has always been.
There’s a site-wide search widget at the top left of each page, a per-thread one at the top of each thread page, and two per-user ones on each user profile. How many more are needed?
If you don’t see a search box in the top left bar above the “Main Menu” it’s probably because you have an ad blocker running. BTW that’s not a trick of mine to force people to disable their ad blockers, it’s just an element that happens to get blocked by many of the default ad blocker lists due to its Google origins.