# Broken links (blank page) with invalid URLs with double #

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/broken-links-blank-page-with-invalid-urls-with-double/52640
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [7 Noviembre, 2016 20:37 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/broken-links-blank-page-with-invalid-urls-with-double/52640 "2016-11-07T20:37:37Z")
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### Author: ![Falco](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/falco/32/179432_2.png) [@Falco](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Falco)
#### Post date: [31 Marzo, 2017 17:45 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/broken-links-blank-page-with-invalid-urls-with-double/52640/10 "2017-03-31T17:45:17Z")

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> [@ara4n](#):
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> In the interim it might be kind to consider tweaking your parser to be slightly more forgiving on what it accepts however, in accordance with Postel’s law.

The problem is that the parser in question is the Ruby Standard Library one.[quote=“ara4n, post:9, topic:52640”]  
In other news, I can’t wait for someone to implement a Discourse\<-\>Matrix bridge, rather than clunky hyperlinking between the two!  
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This will be way easier when this plugin is live:

> [@Common event system for chatrooms - a specification](https://meta.discourse.org/t/common-event-system-for-chatrooms-a-specification/59245):
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> One of the GSOC ideas on GitHub is creating a “[Common Event System for Chatrooms](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/wiki/Summer-of-Code-2017-Ideas-List#common-event-system-for-chatrooms)” I like the sound of this idea, so this is an attempt at a more comprehensive description of how it could be implemented. Hopefully this will give a starting point for some discussion about what people would like to get out of a feature like this. Edit 17/03/2017: I've added and removed some stuff based on comments below. What we already have [https://meta.discourse.org/t/the-official-discourse-slack-plugin/5141…](https://meta.discourse.org/t/the-official-discourse-slack-plugin/51412)

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