Links making pages too wide read

http://www.northjersey.com/page.php?qst ... FlZUVFeXky


Look at what a link (or any string of letters with no spaces) does to the width of the text on the board. It means that each line of all other posts on the page will be just as wide and every line you will have to scroll right and left to read everything.

Many other forums have a rule requiring links that long to be shortened using "[url=....." or using a service called "tinyurl.com" which does exactly what it says, shortens urls so they look like this http://tinyurl.com/34s37v - why not have Railroad.net require the same.

Note: The link on top might not bother everyone, I'm on a 14" laptop, firefox, and 1024x768 resolution , but no matter what screen size and resolution you will experience this at some point.

We'd prefer people link in the fashion you suggest. If you see an obnoxious link, ask the moderator of that forum to make it a text link.

-otto-

Ok, will do. But maybe you and the rest of the moderators can set a size after which they will automatically fix it.

This goes to mike, but i've seen other phpBBs where after a certain size it turns into the PARTOFTHELIN.... (part of the link with ... afterward and a URL), can that be done here?

How about some stickys?

Mr Harryguy,

With the exception of Mike and Jessy, every person who serves railroad dot net is a volunteer. We do this after our day jobs. Otto, as the Creative Director, gives us guidance and supervises our work.

Yes, we look for overly long links. We may miss them, though. We need your help.

Please, if you see something, in any Forum, PM a Mod. We'll be glade to edit the post, encase the url with some bbcode, set some text that says "Read the whole thing here", and get the post back in play.

Thanks!