Automatically shorten long urls

[Faisal A]

When posting a long url maybe have an automatic shortner (like bit.ly or goo.gl) instead of having to manually click the link button

[LogicalDrm]

Or just something visual to hide middle parts. Link dhorteners can be dangerous, and easily misused. Which is why use of them without permission isn't allowed.

[vanished]

Those are only really needed in niche scenarios.  On the forum, you can easily set the displayed text to be different than the actual link.  For example:

 

some post

 

This allows saving space while allowing users to still see where the link is taking them before clicking.

 

However with that said, I haven't ever seen a crazy long link though that I can recall, so I'm not sure how necessary this really is.

[colonel_mortis]

We don't want people to use shortened links, because you can't see where they go. As Ryan_Vickers mentioned, you can set the link text manually (using the link button in the editor), so I don't see any use for this.

[iLostMyXbox21]

a good use of this is @Ryan_Vickers's tagline

 

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