Links In Forums

In any forum post I read here, the links that people supply are displayed to me as a mess of coding, rather than a clickable link. I've looked everywhere I can think of for a setting that would change this. Could someone point me in the right direction and please be specific. Someone recommended I looked in the "User CP" already and I can't seem to find it.

Thank you.

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Pep (assuming you can make sense of *this* link!)

LL turned off the bbcode.. so many of us are getting around it by either putting a ? at the end of links or if you are using Firefox, using a grease monkey script that is listed in that forum post Pep posted.

When will LL turn the bbcode back on? *looks out the window* Well, hell hasn't frozen over yet....

for the moment the use of IMG tags instead of URL tags works to make links works (and degrades nicely even if they do turn linking back on, it was turned off to prevent a security problem) as Raudf pointed out, if the URL doesn't include a '?' it won't work, but you can just add one to the end if it doesn't usually w/o problems

? is a search string used by servers and javscript to pass information into the page so content can be displayled using a single address point and be generated dynamically.. if the page doesn't handle search strings it's quite safe

the reason it works with img tags is because sites like flir and photobucket use these to serve images without having a specific extension type like .jpg .gif etc showing, so it's assumed that they might be images. when the content type (which is in a hidden header the browser/server gets) comes back with a type of html, nothing is displayed leaving just a link

there are links to the grease monkey script (by strife) in my signature below.

it also helps when writing/editing posts here to be in the simplest editing mode, otherwise img tags linking pages will be updated to url tags, and it can be a pain. this setting is in the User CP