Let people post external links in answers

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Many people post questions on these forums that have detailed answers in articles and blog posts from people who aren't Apple employees. It would be nice to link to these articles when answering questions on these forums.

But if you try to link to a non-Apple URL, you get an error message that the domain is invalid. To post the link, you have to remove the https://www part of the link. This forces people to cut and paste the URL into the browser to read the article when they should get a clickable link.

If you're worried about spam links, then either require posters to have a minimum reputation score or have a minimum number of posts to submit answers with external links.

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szymczyk

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I agree.

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I notice that pasting the URL for the external link without wrapping the URL in Markdown tags creates clickable links.

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szymczyk

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Answer 2

Thanks for the suggestion. Best thing is to report this on feedback assistant, and post the feedback ID here.

Also, the forums will let me post https://www.google.com/ but not [this](https://www.google.com/) without the apostrophes. Is it different for you?

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Graphics and Games Engineer

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Feedback ID on this issue: FB9861235

I get the invalid domain error in both cases, pasting the whole URL and with the Markdown link syntax.

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szymczyk

Good to know, and thanks for the Feedback ID!

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This is a delicate balance but, speaking personally, I agree that we could do better here.

Feedback ID on this issue: FB9861235

Thanks for that. I’ve brought it to the attention of the DevForums maintainers.

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eskimo

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Hi there,

Thanks for the feedback. We'll look into making this a better experience. In the meantime, you can post raw URLs with https:// on Developer Forums. We just don't allow hyperlinking texts with URLs. We also don't colorize raw URLs posted until they are clicked.

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App Store Connect Engineer

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Answer 6

I just edit the url by adding spaces: h t t p s : / / w w wnextisOK

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Claude31

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I notice that pasting the URL for the external link without wrapping the URL in Markdown tags creates clickable links.

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szymczyk

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I notice that pasting the URL for the external link without wrapping the URL in Markdown tags creates clickable links.

Right. I added this to Quinn’s Top Ten DevForums Tips a couple of months ago.

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Let people post external links in answers

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