Have others found that many links in THE DELI 's posts have

[Walt]

At least for me, what were clear working links to rent.men in vet many posted chains (but not all) have now become long strings of random characters that are effectively broken links.  Is there something to do abut this?

Thanks everyone.

 

[+ Gar1eth]

36 minutes ago, Walt said:

At least for me, what were clear working links to rent.men in vet many posted chains (but not all) have now become long strings of random characters that are effectively broken links.  Is there something to do abut this?

Thanks everyone.

 

I brought this up a few weeks ago. It may depend on your browser. The main fix is to keep it as a simple link and not to embed the link in the post. 
 

 

[Walt]

16 minutes ago, Gar1eth said:

brought this up a few weeks ago. It may depend on your browser. The main fix is to keep it as a simple link and not to embed the link in the post. 

Thanks! 🙂 I understand. But that's only if I'm posting something new!  What about accessing the now hundreds of broken links already out there on the site?

[+ azdr0710]

I'm glad this is happening to other people, too!!

I'm just re-upping a new link as I come across these. The entire forum should get in the habit of clicking on that "post as link" option when posting a new profile. Yeah, it's one tiny extra step, but....baby steps!  

[+ Gar1eth]

3 hours ago, Walt said:

Thanks! 🙂 I understand. But that's only if I'm posting something new!  What about accessing the now hundreds of broken links already out there on the site?

Well you can't do it from the broken link. But say we take the following for an example. 
 

Tiagolatinboy - Pornstar Performer, Rentboy, Gay Massage in San Francisco, CA | RentMen

RENTMEN.EU

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Pornstar Performer & Rentboy in San Francisco, CA - Tiagolatinboy: Guy horny 8inch available

You have to go outside the Message Center (which isn't difficult for me as I have more than one browser on my phone and my computer.) What I do is take the name of the escort in this case Tiagolatinboy, put it in the search bar of a browser. Then follow that with either rent.men or rentmen. And usually the search results will pop up with the link you need to get to the ad in question assuming the ad hasn't been deleted from RM. 

[pubic_assistance]

10 hours ago, azdr0710 said:

I'm glad this is happening to other people, too!!

I assumed it was happening for everyone.

I'm guessing an update to the system forgot to ask for automatic display of the previously posted profiles as live links. 

I see a few members have, kindly taken it upon themselves to post a new link during ongoing conversations that started with a (now) broken link. 

[+ Gar1eth]

1 hour ago, pubic_assistance said:

I assumed it was happening for everyone.

I think in my prior thread someone answered that the expired links happened using his phone but not his computer. 

[+ sync]

3 hours ago, Gar1eth said:

I think in my prior thread someone answered that the expired links happened using his phone but not his computer. 

It happened/is happening with my phone and my computer.

Not sure if others have noticed, but, if there is a large gray square above the link, left clicking within the gray area will activate the link.

Edited 20 hours ago by sync

[+ JamesB]

In some cases, this kind of thing is intentional, a form of obfuscation or an anti-scraping measure that certain forums use. In this particular case, and this is just my guess, it looks more like a common symptom of forum database corruption or an issue from a failed migration. I’m sure the admin will be able to figure out what’s happening and hopefully apply a fix.

[+ Gar1eth]

1 hour ago, JamesB said:

In some cases, this kind of thing is intentional, a form of obfuscation or an anti-scraping measure that certain forums use. In this particular case, and this is just my guess, it looks more like a common symptom of forum database corruption or an issue from a failed migration. I’m sure the admin will be able to figure out what’s happening and hopefully apply a fix.

I just figured that maybe there was some kind of cookie that expired -or something similar.