… to want to ban fucking ‘clicky link’

[Snuffalo]

I’m sure you’ve all used the internet before. You may even be using it as you read this! You know how links work. The text in blue is meant to be the title or even a very short summary of the thing you’re linking. It’s like putting the coffee in a jar labelled ‘jar’ instead of ‘coffee’ and it makes you look extraordinarily, cringeworthily stupid.

See, I've only seen it when someone's tried to post a link but it didn't work, so they try again, calling it 'clicky link' ....ie, you can now click on it.
So it's more like someone tried storing their coffee in something that looked like a jar, but wasn't actually a jar. So you hand them a real jar. Labelled, perfectly reasonably, 'JAR'.

YANBU. Not least because very few of us click a link any more, we just tap it on a screen. Or have I opened another jar of coffee can of worms there?!

Except not because a hyperlink isn't really anything like a jar. It would be like a bus but instead of saying "city centre" or "Northbourne" or something it says "bus" on the front.

Except not really that either because hyperlinks on a Web forum usually exist in a context of other words. So it's like the bus company hired a person to stand at the bus stop and do a running commentary about which buses are coming up next.

I'm happy to say I have no fucking idea what you are all talking about

So you don't want us to write clicky link

I kind of agree with the OP . Also hate the phrase 'clicky link'.

Yes we all have internet OP, including you maybe you are suffering from TOO MUCH INTERNET??

CLICKY LINK: www.piedmont.org/living-better/how-the-internet-affects-your-mental-health

I get confused cos mine automatically makes all links clicky.

The phrase ‘clicky link’ gives me the rage - it’s so cutesy and annoying.

I still don't know how people make the URL into a word. If I ever added a(clicky) link, it would just be a copy and paste from Google. I see some people have managed to rename it to something short and relevant. I've seen people trying to explain it on other threads, but I still don't know how to do it... If anyone could explain it clearly to me, that would be great,

I also only see it where the OP has posted an URL that you can’t click through but need to copy and paste, so the second poster has helpfully posted the same link in a clickable form. “Clicky” here being an informal synonym for “functional”.

Why would you object to that?

I actually don't like it when the link is hidden, on my phone I can't preview what it is, and it could be something really horrible disguised as something else.

smallfast 😂😂

Gin - link then space then your title but remove the spaces before and after brackets.

It is nice though when posters have trouble doing a link for other posters doing a clicky link. Be fair Op many of us only had the internet half way through our lives.

Aaargh smallfast amazing link. Hurhur.

To do the fancy word link you type...* *
[[ww.link.here gin] ] without the space in between the last 2 square brackets, you will just get 'gin' as a hyperlink.

It is nice though when posters have trouble doing a link for other posters doing a clicky link.

Yes. It's nice to be nice.

Have you considered chilling TF out OP?

Anyways OP we're just bumping gums .

...for discussing what should and shouldn't be written on forums (fora?).

Bloody fuck, can you even Rickroll someone on MN without his face being plastered all over the link?

Can someone please chuck a Milky Way my way

I'd like it on record that I could have stealth linked to Terry Wogan's penis at any point in this thread.. and I didn't.

Eh?

www.mumsnet.com/uploads/talk/201411/large-768109-image.jpg like this

Not like that then...let me try againwww.mumsnet.com/uploads/talk/201411/large-768109-image.jpglike this