Please fix or remove the new URL system

Incredibly frustrating, wasn't anything wrong with the old one.

"You did not enter a valid URL"

"Yes I did."

"You did not enter a valid URL"

"Yes I did."

etc.

I was getting that too. Then I realized that I didn't hit the "To a URL" button. Unless you getting that problem even with that checked off.

@thunderslash: I can confirm I have it set on to a URL and not to Giant Bomb content.

Test. Huh, that worked, although I have no idea why anyone would want to change from the old one. Less clicks=better, why was one more added?

This does seem like a case of fixing something that wasn't broken, only making it worse in the process. Unless there were some problems with the old system that I never heard about, it was simple and it worked.

OK. I totally get that there's something wrong with the URL system. The problem is I do not get WHAT the problem is. Please give me step by step what you're doing, *including the URL*, where it goes wrong, and what you expect. It works fine for me and people on the team keep telling me functionality didn't change.

I'm having the same issue but I think I figured it out. So if you are copying the url directly from the browser into the "add the link" fuction it was coming up with the same error. If you manually type in the http:// and then paste the url then it works fine.

http://grantland.com/

Working.

Put a / at the end of the link and it will work.

@edgework: What I found out on the above post.

@edgework: See below. It seems it's not accepted URLs from the browser.

It works for me on Chrome if I just copy & paste from the address bar. I have never had to type anything in manually or add anything in order for it to accept a URL.

I just tried the same thing and again it said you have entered an invalid URL.

I'm on Firefox if that makes a difference.

I did it on Chrome for a recent post and it did not work. My post above was from a phone.

Even when it worked on my phone, though, I was of the opinion that the new system for making links is flat-out worse than what we've been using. Don't fix what ain't broken? It's just such a little thing, why was it even touched?

Copy and Paste Chrome Test

Works. Hmmm.

This one's gone from "works okay most of the time for me" to "holy shit I want to throw this computer out a window onto a garbage truck and then flatten the garbage truck with a monster truck and then flatten that with an even bigger monster truck" sort of situation. I'm scratching my head as to why this was necessary, especially since it's now particularly finicky when the old one worked just fine. Using Chrome, Windows 7, a laptop, on a desk, in a room, in a building, somewhere on planet Earth. If there are more details needed, lemme know.

Hi, one thing I noticed. https://twitter.com/ will not work as a link, but is you direct to http://twitter.com/ instead it will.

However http://www.touringcartimes.com/ wont work as a link, but if you ADD the S https://www.touringcartimes.com/ it will.

Im not sure how relevant this is, but I figured I would mention it. Something to do with how it handles secure addresses?

I don't know if this helps any. I couldn't get it to work in Firefox but apparently all I needed to do was remove the " HTTP:// " from the address I was copying. So for example, when I linked "http://www.vg247.com/2012/01/06/ninja-theory-received-death-threats-over-dmc" that link wouldn't work. I then tried, " www.vg247.com/2012/01/06/ninja-theory-received-death-threats-over-dmc" and it worked.

Edit: I also don't understand why it was changed. The only difference I can see is a tab for specific GB content, if I was going to paste a link to GB content, why would I ever need a seperate bar for that?

Just to check in - I'll take a look at this. I can't promise anything right now, but we can probably make the user experience better. Sorry for the issues, we are trying to make things better, not worse.