Chrome/Android issue: Copy-pasting links is not working

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This issue likely is not a bug in the Discourse code

But I am documenting it here, as many people should be seeing it and could get a little bit confused. Perhaps Discourse teams has better reporting channels to Google or Chromium.

Currently the situation is that copy-pasting http:// links to a post is broken on up-to-date Android devices running Google Chrome or other Chromium based browser. I have not been able to identify whether the issue is in the browser or the could it be the GBoard keyboard.

Simple steps to repro:

  • Copy a link
  • Try to paste it to a post

→ Nothing happens

But if you copy the URL field content as text, it does work:

  • Copy the link
  • Paste it to Chrome URL field
  • Select all text & copy

→ You can paste the link to Discourse message composer

Here are some user comments and screenshots. We started the topic in english, but eventually it drifted to our native language.

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Very strange. Confirmed. The url won’t paste in the composer or the hyperlink modal. But it would paste into my text message app.

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Since the bug is already fixed, I think the workaround in the other topic is enough.

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When will it be published?

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The fix seems to have landed on Chrome & Chromium.

Copy-pasting a link right here:

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