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Everybody's been complaining about links not working. I think I've found the cause, and a solution.

When you post a long URL as a link, it will look like this in the original message:

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http://www.lowes.com/lowes/lkn?action=productDetail&productId=37304-56725-12RESL&lpage=none

When the board displays the long link, it shortens it and retains the full link in the back room. Your posted link looks like this:

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http://www.lowes.com/lowes/lkn?action=p ... lpage=none

When you edit or preview, that shortened link becomes the active text, so your link is truncated. Everything right of the "?action=p .." gets cut off.

So if you preview or edit, re-paste the whole link into the message before submitting. Otherwise, it won't work.

Okay, after conferring with the support people and running a few tests, I've found out that you need to enclose links in URL tags. They look like this:

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[url]http://someplace.around.com?search="whatever you're looking for to make this link longer"&ID="12345"[/url]

If you use those lower-case url tags, your links won't get split up, and will work.

If you're using the full editor instead of the quick reply, just hit the "URL" button and it'll put an open and close URL tag in the text for you automatically.