6mo ago

Making a title using a big number (2.000.000.000) appears as a link

Really big numbers appear as links on the app

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It's being interpreted as an IP address. It shouldn't do that if you use commas instead.
Sounds like a design oversight in the app. Probably worth reporting it as a bug.
In parts of the world, long numbers are separated using commas. In other parts, they use periods. You clearly use periods.
The app probably auto converts long period-segmented character strings into urls for user convenience. However, that interferes with users like you who post numbers.
I'm not really sure there is a satisfying answer here other than making a setting for it. If I disable this feature outright then ip addresses will not show up as links. If I enable it then you get the issue you see. In either case I would assume that this is a pretty rare case. I'll add it to the road map.
- But why would anyone share an IP address that must be clickable?
  
  I'm not sure if you know this but a lot of websites are accessible by their IP address. As an example 1.1.1.1. It's definitely a niche use case but it sometimes happens because sometimes a website doesn't have a domain name or in cases where there are DNS issues. Another use case is linking to a local host. Eg. 192.168.1.1 which is commonly used for a router or 127.0.0.1 which is called a loopback IP.
The proper way to type big numbers is with spaces:
2 000 000 000
Fight me
- The proper way to type big numbers is locale-based.
  No fighting necessary because I'm right

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