Questions tagged [hyperlinks]
For questions on usage of links at MSE (both links to various parts of this site and to other sites).
97 questions
17 votes
3 answers
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Community help needed to clean up goo.gl links (by August 25)
As users have pointed out, many links created by Google’s url shortening service (goo.gl) are going to stop functioning as of August 25, 2025. There are thousands of these links in questions, answers, ...
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16 votes
0 answers
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goo.gl links will stop working soon
As announced in several places, Google will be sunsetting the goo.gl URL shortener soon (August 25): Goo.gl links will stop working on August 25, 2025, which will ...
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20 votes
1 answer
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Is there a policy on links to Wikiwand (commercial Wikipedia interface)?
Wikiwand is a Wikipedia mirror that claims to improve the usability of Wikipedia's interface. It is a commercial project, supported by ads and trackers. Their most recent interface overhaul includes &...
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28 votes
1 answer
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Inappropriate link hiding in an answer
I was searching for a parametrization for the diophantine equation $a^2+b^2=c^2+d^2$ and I found this answer, it linked a website Essentially you ask for a parametrization of the quadric $V(a^2+b^2=c^...
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1 answer
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A hyperlink is not rendered in a question body -- is it a markdown rendering bug?
More than $4$ years after posting this question I got a comment that it's better to include hyperlink to the Crux source, but the link has been there in the question all the time, it just stopped to ...
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-1 votes
1 answer
107 views
Having trouble including a long link in the answer text
In the comments section, one of the users referenced: ...
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1 vote
0 answers
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MSE read-only mode banner links are useless
The MSE banner, This site is currently in read-only mode. We’ll return with full functionality soon. Visit our status page or search our recent meta posts on the topic for more info. has two links, ...
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0 votes
1 answer
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HTML links are broken in : "https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/4920685/how-to-calculate-the-curl-for-vec-nabla-times-hata-for-unit-vector-hat"
I have some long website links in my article: "How to Calculate the Curl for $\vec{\nabla}\times\hat{a}$ for unit vector $\hat{a}$ in Cartesian, Cylindrical, and Spherical Coordinates" that ...
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6 votes
0 answers
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preview doesn’t reflect actual appearance of post when links are on one line seperated by <br> tags
In my answer at Summing a binomial series that arose while counting functions, I listed some related questions like this: ...
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6 votes
0 answers
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Why many posts here on meta still have links in the old format http://meta.math.stackexchange.com?
Long time ago, the URL for this meta used to be http://meta.math.stackexchange.com - but it later changed to ...
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7 votes
0 answers
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Mathoverflow links
Sometimes, I would like to reference a link from MO and it would be helpful if it got immediately turned into the title without having to type it and then include the hyperlink i.e. https://...
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8 votes
1 answer
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The links on the "How can I format mathematics here" page are broken
On the page https://math.stackexchange.com/help/notation, there are two links: https://meta.math.stackexchange.com/questions/5020/tex-latex-mathjax-basic-tutorial-and-quick-reference https://meta.math....
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1 vote
1 answer
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Stack exchange goes to different question than in URL
When I type in https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/47 into safari/chrome, checking its suggestions did not replace the URL, stack exchange goes instead to Can you recommend a decent online or ...
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12 votes
1 answer
771 views
Will the closure of Gfycat affect MSE?
Gfycat is a hosting service for (animated) GIF files, which will close on September 1st, 2023. Since some MSE users might have included GIF files hosted on Gfycat in their posts, does the service's ...
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7 votes
1 answer
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Are `math.meta.stackexchange.com` and `meta.math.stackexchange.com` the same website?
Are math.meta.stackexchange.com and meta.math.stackexchange.com the same website? The order in which the words "math" and "meta" are swapped. math meta meta math
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