The user D8vid reports a possible bug due to inconsistent UX when displaying hyperlinks in category descriptions and topic previews. Specifically, hyperlinks in the first line of a category’s ‘About Category’ page are displayed in category descriptions and subcategory boxes, but not in the ‘About Category’ topic preview. D8vid provides screenshots to demonstrate the issue, showing varying behaviors in different categories and subcategories. codinghorror requests screenshots to further understand the problem. D8vid offers to recreate the cases in a dummy category if needed, as the original links are no longer representative due to enabling Topic List Previews thumbnails.
Filing this as maybe-a-bug, because of UX inconsistencies.
When hyperlinks appear in the first line of a Category’s ‘About Category’ page, they are displayed as such in the brief category descriptions on the All Categories page, and in subcategory boxes (if those are selected for display in settings).
Upon drilling down into a category and finding the ‘About Category’ topic pinned, the same first-line text is displayed (‘preview text’?), but without hyperlinks. Sometimes however, no first-line text is displayed, but only the name of the ‘About Category’ topic’s parent category repeated (in sub-category style, preceded by a bullet/box). I can’t quite work out the pattern here.
Drill-down /c/community category with subcategory description text with hyperlinks, in boxes, from subcategory About topics (boxes from the Category setting ‘Show subcategory list above topics in this category’: Boxes). About the Community category topic is listed with bulleted Community category name, but without excerpt text.
