How Do You Make Links in Comments Show Up With the Picture on myLot?
@AdrienneJenkins (274)
Vancouver, British Columbia
November 16, 2015 9:50am CST
I notice some people when they comment in discussions on myLot are able to have links show up like Facebook links where it's the link plus the site photo.
How do you do this?
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@owlwings (43914)
• Cambridge, England
16 Nov 15
It seems that you have discovered by accident. Any full link (beginning with http) anywhere in a post (discussion, response or comment) will display at the foot of the post as a formatted link provided that there is a space before and after it. Even when it is first posted, you won't see it formatted as such until you refresh the page, however.
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@AdrienneJenkins (274)
• Vancouver, British Columbia
16 Nov 15
You da bomb. That seems to be the missing "link". I often don't have the http: and whoa --- the space thing is another tricky dicky finicky detail. And then the refresh of the page. YES!!! I'll give it a try.
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@AdrienneJenkins (274)
• Vancouver, British Columbia
16 Nov 15
Side note. @owlwings I have also accidentally tagged a discussion tag when wanting to make a comment. Is there any way to delete these tags? The last time I tried, it deleted the whole comment.
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@AdrienneJenkins (274)
• Vancouver, British Columbia
16 Nov 15
@owlwings Look out myLot --- I'm going to be all amped up on graphics now.
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@yukimori (10143)
• United States
16 Nov 15
@AdrienneJenkins Links typically won't show up with the preview right after you make the post. Once the page is refreshed, they appear like they're supposed to.
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@AdrienneJenkins (274)
• Vancouver, British Columbia
16 Nov 15
I was but it wasn't working automatically. It's probably because of the issues @owlwings mentions below. I'll try again. TESTED. The browser refresh is what did it.
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@LadyDuck (467835)
• Switzerland
16 Nov 15
When you post your discussion, you do not see the link, but it shows as soon as the page is refreshed. I noticed this yesterday, I posted a link to a YouTube video and I only saw the link. Today, replying to a comment, I noticed that there is the image of the video.
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@AdrienneJenkins (274)
• Vancouver, British Columbia
16 Nov 15
I now see my problem. I wasn't including the http:
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