a thoughtful web.
Good ideas and conversation. No ads, no tracking.   Login or Take a Tour!
comment by c_hawkthorne
c_hawkthorne  ·  1163 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: No way to edit bio or email address?

https://imgur.com/a/FO7GLi6

mk - any guesses why this went URL and not embedded? Not sure if you get edit history but I tried taking out the "/a/" and adding ".jpg" at the end.





Devac  ·  1163 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Because it's a link to an album, not the picture.

c_hawkthorne  ·  1163 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I swear I took out the /a and updated and it still didn't do it. At least you're talented thanks Devac!

Devac  ·  1163 days ago  ·  link  ·  

The link without /a leads somewhere else, see:

https://i.imgur.com/FO7GLi6

FO7GLi6 is album's ID, the picture within has 0mbaFzO. Kinda like a difference between the name of an album and names of songs on it.

c_hawkthorne  ·  1163 days ago  ·  link  ·  

That's some fine detective work. Imgur is garbage but free and I like free. I'm ready for hubski image hosting if that gets confirmed.

freyr  ·  1163 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Oh wow, yeah I don't have that. No text box.

Here's what I see

Devac  ·  1163 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I think it can be a remnant of the previous anti-spam restrictons, at least that'd be my guess. IIRC, you couldn't post, change profile description or have links in comments until you completed first 'hubwheel' (that thing next to your nick in the top navigation bar).

Guessing after mk, I wouldn't be surprised if it was just hidden via CSS, therefore accessible and editable with 'inspect element' feature in most browsers. Can't hurt giving it a try, can be fun.

freyr  ·  1163 days ago  ·  link  ·  

That makes sense. I don't care that much. Just wanted to report the issue. If it's intentional, then it should say so.

c_hawkthorne  ·  1163 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Well that's fun. mk is our great and glorious leader and one of the the guys who runs this place. Any bugs go to him. He'll probably ask what browser you're on and might want other info. Hope that gets fixed soon!

freyr  ·  1163 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Same issue in across browsers (Firefox and Chrome) and across devices (Brave browser on mobile).