Redirection links instead of direct
 

I noticed that now, when posting a link in a thread, it is not a direct link anymore but a redirection from flyertalk.com. Meaning the link can not be copy/paste anymore ?
Why was this done ?

Having done a couple of links in messages in the past couple of days, I can't observe anything different, it seems to be working as it always was for me. Maybe give an example of what you think has changed fransknorge ?

If you look at this post:
https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/33937252-post43958.html

The text is The link is not a direct link to CNN, despite the text being a link to CNN, it is a redirection:

Must be something local to you. For me the text is:

https://cimg9.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.fly...27743ecf72.jpg

truncated to:

https://cimg5.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.fly...d8c0a861ad.jpg

re-directed not by FT but within CNN to:


https://cimg8.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.fly...2102d03904.jpg

All shown as screenshots for accuracy.

Edit: When I quote you, the second one you mentioned as being a re-direction changes within the quote to a direct link!

Yes I struggled to keep the redirection, the post editor does weird thing.

I thought so too when I first looked at this thread, but I see it now too. The interesting thing is that it doesn't happen in all views, and maybe not even all the time.

Right now for me, if I click on the link that OP gave, which shows just that single message and nothing else, the link looks normal, no redirect shenanigans.

But if you click in the upper right where it says "Thread: Coronavirus pandemic" and click to show the post in the context of its containing thread, then when the post eventually loads (you will have to wait for the FT software to do whatever it is that takes so long probably loading all of the thread's messages just to show you a single page) and then jump to the post (number 43958) and then hover over the link again.

For a less controversial post :p which is not in OMNI/PR, here's one on the JWST Space Telescope:

single post: https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/33953366-post202.html

in thread context: https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/omni...l#post33953366

using developer tools to inspect:

https://cimg6.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.fly...fc999dc768.png

Both of these examples are in OMNI; I do NOT see the redirect markup outside of OMNI (but have only looked at a tiny number of posts so don't know if this rule holds true universally)

Looks like the redirection is OMNI.

Here's three examples of recent posts with links external to FlyerTalk that are outside of OMNI:

https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/hawa...l#post33955890

https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/hilt...l#post33954966

https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/hilt...l#post33955938

David

We made a slight change in the way some links work for security purposes