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Offline SnaG

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Quick question about links in chat
« on: May 16, 2016, 09:40:11 am »
Just wondering why we are unable to post links in GoIO chat. Is there a technical issue preventing this, or is it just not a feature to prevent spam etc? In which case could it be feasible to provide this ability to CAs, mods, teachers etc. as it would be extremely useful for redirecting players to threads on the various forums and to the #global in discord for teaching purposes. I can't imagine I've been the first one to bring this up, just thought I would bump this idea again seeing as we're pushing the use of discord as a potential way players can get awnsers easily, which, without a way of linking it will be quite underused.

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Re: Quick question about links in chat
« Reply #1 on: May 19, 2016, 08:05:28 am »
Purely from conjecture...

1. game has no copy paste so posting links is pointless.
2. chat is hard coded to only detect everything on chat as a string. Hence hyperlinks are not happening.
3. malicious links can cause muse to get screwed over. plus it can drive people away from the game if the links posted are known to be viruses (only takes one scandal).

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Re: Quick question about links in chat
« Reply #2 on: May 19, 2016, 09:10:37 am »
1. game has no copy paste so posting links is pointless.
2. chat is hard coded to only detect everything on chat as a string. Hence hyperlinks are not happening.

Just to make it clear, you can copy & paste the text you're typing.

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Re: Quick question about links in chat
« Reply #3 on: May 19, 2016, 04:44:38 pm »
1. game has no copy paste so posting links is pointless.
2. chat is hard coded to only detect everything on chat as a string. Hence hyperlinks are not happening.

Just to make it clear, you can copy & paste the text you're typing.
control + c and control + v?

Personally don't count that. feature of the PC than the game itself.