Problem in the Profile Setting

[Melke 160]

My feedback is about the linking to other sites within the profile setting. Such as linking to a youtube, steam, skype, deviantart and many other sites. The problem comes when people tries to click on said links on the profile and they end up in a dead page.

 

For example:

 

On Lunar Echo's page, he copied and paste his youtube url into the links and when someone clicks on it, this is where it brings you:

 

https://www.youtube.com/user/https%3A//www.youtube.com/channel/UCWZbV9x2mfHXHYP7uN2EYuA/feed

 

this is what I assume he put in:

 

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWZbV9x2mfHXHYP7uN2EYuA

 

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What is happening here is that the inputted information is a complete url and then your system adds another https://... etc.

 

 

This is under the profile setting and listed under contact information and it simply said youtube and then a text box. My suggestion would be to either:

 

1. change the system in how people input their information (make it so that they are inputting url links to the various websites) and add an ~url to each location so it would look like (Youtube URL)

 

2. put an indication for people to see that it is their account name on the various websites so that these sort of dead links are not going to happen.

 

This is a small problem but can quickly become a pet peeve for people on the forums. I hope that you would consider the options.

Edited October 24, 2015 by Melke