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dougn
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03 Aug 2011, 4:47 am

Does anyone else find it really annoying that there's no obvious visual differentiation of hyperlinks in forum posts other than a different mouse pointer when hovering over it?

For example, this sentence doesn't look like a hyperlink, but it is.

Edit: It looks like the font size for hyperlinks is very slightly smaller. I'd much prefer a different color and/or for them to be underlined. The font size change is not obvious at all.

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03 Aug 2011, 9:14 am

Just annoying, not "really annoying", but, yes, I definitely find it annoying.

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03 Aug 2011, 9:20 am

It sometimes catches me out too, not realising people have made a hyperlink. Personally when making hyperlinks I try to make them obvious with something like "click here.." or by showing the URL anyway.

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03 Aug 2011, 1:16 pm

Yes.

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03 Aug 2011, 1:46 pm

TallyMan wrote:

we know as a moderator, you need to back the actions and decisions of the admin/owner but I think it should be up to them to make the changes instead of relying on us to do the work. A one-time alteration could fix things on Alex's part.

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03 Aug 2011, 3:38 pm

MasterJedi wrote:

TallyMan wrote:

Yes it could. But your options are to wait for him to do that, or do the best that you can now with what you've got.

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04 Aug 2011, 12:41 am

Moog wrote:

Yes it could. But your options are to wait for him to do that, or do the best that you can now with what you've got.

Does that mean someone has asked Alex to change this?

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04 Aug 2011, 5:12 am

dougn wrote:

Moog wrote:

Yes it could. But your options are to wait for him to do that, or do the best that you can now with what you've got.

Does that mean someone has asked Alex to change this?

It's probably on the list of things to be done with the software changeover. The whole site is in need of some work, and Alex is aware of this.

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04 Aug 2011, 6:42 am

Moog wrote:

It's probably on the list of things to be done with the software changeover. The whole site is in need of some work, and Alex is aware of this.

Glad to hear that.

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04 Aug 2011, 5:27 pm

Get Stylish for Firefox, and add this as a style;

Quote:

@namespace url(http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml);

@-moz-document domain("wrongplanet.net") {
.postlink {
text-decoration: underline !important;
font-weight: bold !important;
}
}

and links will look like This.

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10 Aug 2011, 11:31 am

I'm going to start bolding my hyperlinks, but it's still very very annoying.

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