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Hexagon

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Joined: 2015-04-22

Posts: 1,213

[Feature] Clickable links in signs

For example,

I'm not too tempted to manually type every single letter of that URL into my URL bar, including switching tabs for every few letters (I have a bad memory.) The instructions won't fit in the signs, and they probably won't be read because I don't have the time to type everything.

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Krosis

Formerly Arkonagames

Joined: 2015-06-17

Posts: 2,279

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Re: [Feature] Clickable links in signs

Should be really nice, i'm with an idea of making a good level, but it will need many signs so i make a website with all the text on the signs

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Br0k3n

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From: Serbia

Joined: 2015-04-04

Posts: 1,451

Re: [Feature] Clickable links in signs

I like the idea, until then you can always shorten the links to make it a bit easier for users.

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Zoey2070

Moderation Team

From: Shakuras

Joined: 2015-02-15

Posts: 5,504

Re: [Feature] Clickable links in signs

That could go very, very wrong*, so how about some stipulations:
- whitelisted urls (the forums, blog, twitter, pastebin... stuff like that)
- no link shorteners
- open in new window/have a thing pop-up that's like 'would you like to click this link/it goes off this site/don't give out your pass'

*think viruses or like... weird subreddits.

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Hexagon

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Joined: 2015-04-22

Posts: 1,213

Re: [Feature] Clickable links in signs

I fully agree Zoey, as this can easily turn into something very spammy if we're not careful. Perhaps we can go down the route of just having the whitelisted url's as the only ones that can be clickable, and use referrer masking to protect the user's privacy even further (i.e http://everybodyedits.com/link.php?url=[...]). Since link shorteners change the domain name, they would not be on the whitelist and would be unclickable by default.

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Xfrogman43

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From: need to find a new home

Joined: 2015-02-15

Posts: 4,174

Re: [Feature] Clickable links in signs

For example,

I'm not too tempted to manually type every single letter of that URL into my URL bar, including switching tabs for every few letters (I have a bad memory.) The instructions won't fit in the signs, and they probably won't be read because I don't have the time to type everything.

Off-Topic: Nice world [it's mine]

On Topic: I agree with Zoey, there should be a confirmation asking if you want to open link in a new tab. No Link shorten could be good and bad. But then again if you have a really long link, it shouldn't be reliable anyways.

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eeisol

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Joined: 2015-07-21

Posts: 27

Re: [Feature] Clickable links in signs

If you're accepting "pastebin" into your whitelist, why bother? Any URL can go from there. Not to mention, "no url shorteners" -- pastebin URLs aren't very self-identifying.

Point being, there's no sense in a whitelist if users can supply their own material (eyes Twitter)

Hexagon

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Joined: 2015-04-22

Posts: 1,213

Re: [Feature] Clickable links in signs

If you're accepting "pastebin" into your whitelist, why bother? Any URL can go from there. Not to mention, "no url shorteners" -- pastebin URLs aren't very self-identifying.

Well, whitelisting, but for ee content only and ee websites only (so no pastebin.) When I agreed with Zoey I overlooked the inclusion of "pastebin" into the whitelisted urls. EE content only should be safe.

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Raven

Formerly Diana2003

Joined: 2015-07-04

Posts: 1,341

Re: [Feature] Clickable links in signs

I wanted it to happen.