Links becoming thumbnails?

[navychop]

Anyone else noticing that embedded links in posts are showing as thumbnails, and rather than linking to the posted site, it links to the SatGuys homepage? Ignoring the posted URL.

Or is something out of whack with my PC?

 

[navychop]

Odd. It happened in this thread: http://www.satelliteguys.us/dish-network-technical-discussions/156690-type-fan-cool-722-a.html

but not in this one:
http://www.satelliteguys.us/dish-network-forum/156770-eastren-arc-questions.html

Or in this post. ???

 

[meStevo]

I imagine it's trying to automatically take an amazon link, make it more 'functional' by grabbing a thumbnail and formatting it a la the Youtube hack, but also converting it into an affiliate link perhaps? With the last part broken, it's just going to the satguys front page.

 

[meStevo]

Link to Amazon:

[ame=http://www.amazon.com/Whats-Your-Poo-Telling-You/dp/0811857824/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1_s9_rk?ie=UTF8&s=books&s9r=8a5801be11eb2d530111fc35bf3402cd&itemPosition=1&qid=1228327868&sr=8-1]Amazon.com: What's Your Poo Telling You?: M.D., Anish Sheth, Josh Richman: Books[/ame]

Hmm

[ame="http://www.amazon.com/News-Nightline-Zappos-com-Bedtime-Battle/dp/B001JP65X6/ref=sr_1_8?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1228328007&sr=8-8"]Amazon.com: ABC News Nightline Zappos.com/The Bedtime Battle: Movies & TV[/ame]

Nice, just broken.

[ame="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001GZ6QEC/ref=amb_link_7694772_1?pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=center-4&pf_rd_r=0H1CBBQZJGZSKH03KPG7&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=464722951&pf_rd_i=193640011"]Amazon.com: The Dark Knight (+ Digital Copy and BD Live) [Blu-ray]: Christian Bale, Heath Ledger, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Aaron Eckhart, Michael Caine, Sam Derence, William Fichtner, Paul Birchard, Brandon Lambdin, Jr. Tom "Tiny" Lister, Roger Monk, Gary Oldman, Bill Smille, Michael Stoyanov, Tristan Tait, Nydia Rodriguez Terracina, Will Zahrn, Morgan Freeman, Anthony Michael Hall, Thomas McElroy, Wally Pfister, Timothy E. Angulo, Lev Yevstratov: Movies & TV[/ame]

 

[navychop]

Looks like you've nailed it.

 

[meStevo]

It's quite the space hog. Would be nice to make an ongoing 'this week in Blu-Ray' type post that some of the blogs have, but doing that results in a somewhat ugly use of space:

[ame=http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001G7Q1NQ?ie=UTF8&tag=psfa-20&link_code=as3&camp=211189&creative=373489&creativeASIN=B001G7Q1NQ]Amazon.com: Action Blu-ray 3-Pack (Jumper / Transporter / Transporter 2) [Blu-ray]: Action 3pak: Movies & TV[/ame]
[ame=http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001DJ7PUK?ie=UTF8&tag=psfa-20&link_code=as3&camp=211189&creative=373489&creativeASIN=B001DJ7PUK]Amazon.com: Awake [Blu-ray]: Arliss Howard, Terrence Howard, Christopher McDonald, Lena Olin, Sam Robards, Fisher Stevens, Sigourney Weaver, Jessica Alba, Hayden Christensen, Trent Ford, David Harbour, Georgina Chapman, Court Young, Russell Carpenter[/ame]
[ame=http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001D5F2NQ?ie=UTF8&tag=psfa-20&link_code=as3&camp=211189&creative=373489&creativeASIN=B001D5F2NQ]Amazon.com: The Bird People of China [Blu-ray]: Renji Ishibashi, Mako, Masahiro Motoki, Wang Li Li, Hideo Yamamoto, Koji Endo, Takashi Miike, Taiji Shimamura: Movies & TV[/ame]
[ame=http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001D5F2NQ?ie=UTF8&tag=psfa-20&link_code=as3&camp=211189&creative=373489&creativeASIN=B001D5F2NQ]Amazon.com: The Bird People of China [Blu-ray]: Renji Ishibashi, Mako, Masahiro Motoki, Wang Li Li, Hideo Yamamoto, Koji Endo, Takashi Miike, Taiji Shimamura: Movies & TV[/ame]
[ame=http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001G7Q1OA?ie=UTF8&tag=psfa-20&link_code=as3&camp=211189&creative=373489&creativeASIN=B001G7Q1OA]Amazon.com: Chick Flick Blu-ray 3-Pack (Juno / 27 Dresses / The Devil Wears Prada) [Blu-ray]: Chick Filick 3pak: Movies & TV[/ame]
[ame=http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001DWNUDI?ie=UTF8&tag=psfa-20&link_code=as3&camp=211189&creative=373489&creativeASIN=B001DWNUDI]Amazon.com: Encounters at the End of the World [Blu-ray]: Werner Herzog, Peter Zeitlinger, Henry Kaiser, David Lindley, Joe Bini: Movies & TV[/ame]

+15 more titles

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

There is a bug in the software, which a patch was released for it last night. I am applying it now, but unfortunately it needs to rebuild each message, which it is doing now.

Only have 12,863 more page loads (at 500 posts a page) to go in the rebuild process.

 

[navychop]

Thank you.

 

[meStevo]

[ame=http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001EOQWFI/ref=s9sdps_c1_74_img2-rfc_g1-frt_g1-3237_p_si1?pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=center-1&pf_rd_r=03TZBT5276RT4VHSHHSJ&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=463383351&pf_rd_i=507846]Amazon.com: Wall-E (Three-Disc Special Edition + Digital Copy and BD Live) [Blu-ray]: Ben Burtt, Elissa Knight, Jeff Garlin, Fred Willard, MacInTalk, John Ratzenberger, Kathy Najimy, Sigourney Weaver, Kim Kopf, Garrett Palmer, Andrew Stanton: Movies [/ame]

SO all previous links to Amazon will remain broken it looks like

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

Yup unfortunately. I tried rebuilding the links but it didn't do anything.

 

[navychop]

Not the worst thing in the world. Going forward correctly is good enough.