Link in (imported old) forum post has no target

[cyton]

What and who is affected by this issue/request?

Anyone browsing this forum/that specific post

Where on the platform does it happen?

Josm - how to add a way to a relation?

Does the Relation Toolbox plugin give you the workflow you want? Select the bit of way. The current “memberships” then show in the toolbox. Click on “:mag:Find” in the bottom right corner of the Relation Toolbox. Select the correct relation from the list then click OK. Click to add the pre-selected bit of way to the relation with an empty role. Select the correct role from the drop-down next the the (where the relation description was shown during step 4). …

How do we replicate the issue?

try to click the link titled “Relation Toolbox plugin”

Expected behavior (i.e. solution)

some link to some place should have opened in another tab

Other Comments

I don’t know if that post is an imported one from the old forum. The fact that there are comments for the “answers” seems weird to me though, I’ve never seen that on any recent post here.
Maybe that blue marked anchor is not an actual link, and something happened during the import to it, and now it’s gone? At least how it is had me confused for a moment.

[Tordanik (Tobias Knerr)]

That post is using an unusual link syntax:

Does the [Relation Toolbox plugin][1] give you the workflow you want?

...

[1]: [https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/JOSM/Plugins/Relation_Toolbox

If I were to edit it to the usual syntax for this forum’s markdown editor, it would work as expected.

Does the [Relation Toolbox plugin](https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/JOSM/Plugins/Relation_Toolbox) give you the workflow you want?

Now the question why the post is using that syntax is harder to answer. As it’s from 2024, I believe this post was created on this forum, but on a thread using the Q&A format with the possibility to upvote, downvote and comment answers. This was enabled by a plugin which we tested for a while on Help and support, but discontinued (by default) because it had numerous problems. So it might be another issue with that plugin? Unless the user manually used that link syntax for some reason.

[cyton]

Ah, alright.

So it’s not a widespread issue, I hope?

[Tordanik (Tobias Knerr)]

I assume so. If it related to the plugin, it would be limited to posts from the period when the plugin was in active use on this forum.

[InsertUser]

I don’t think that’s an imported post? Most of my responses to requests for help were over on help.openstreetmap.org and plans to import those posts were abandoned (unless I’ve missed some news?).

I think I just made a mistake and left in an extra [.

Unfortunately the post appears to be too old for me to edit it.

@Tordanik

That post is using an unusual link syntax:

How are you viewing Markdown source on that? Is that an admin thing or can any user do it? It would be really handy when I see someone use a feature that I didn’t previously know existed.

[Tordanik (Tobias Knerr)]

@InsertUser

I think I just made a mistake and left in an extra [.

Ah, so the mystery is solved.

@InsertUser

How are you viewing Markdown source on that? Is that an admin thing or can any user do it?

I did it by starting to edit the post. Which I could do without a time limit. So yes, admin thing. I agree it would be neat to be able to view the Markdown source for any post.

[InsertUser]

I have now done a bit of searching online that I probably should have done before asking that question. Sorry about that.

Apparently in the current version of Discourse you can take a link to a post and swap the /t/<subject>/ portion of the URL for /raw/ and get the original source for that post.

e.g. https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/link-in-imported-old-forum-post-has-no-target/145439/7

becomes
https://community.openstreetmap.org/raw/145439/7

I realise this is now totally off topic, but this thread is also the top search result for “Markdown source” so I thought I’d put it here for future reference.