How to format the contact_url on /about

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The discussion revolves around formatting the contact_url on the /about page in Discourse. johnmuhl wants to display an email address as plain text or a proper email link without the mailto: part, similar to the meta page. riking suggests leaving the contact_url field blank and filling in the contact email field instead, as is the case on meta. johnmuhl initially thought both fields were required, but riking clarifies that they can choose, and the contact_url field is not necessary.

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Here on meta the about page has (note how the email address is plain text):

Contact Us

In the event of a critical issue or urgent matter affecting this site, please
contact us at team@discourse.org.

I’d like to have a similar message where the contact_url is an email address but when I try this on my instance I get:

Contact Us

In the event of a critical issue or urgent matter affecting this site, please
contact us at team@discourse.org.

i.e. the email address becomes a bogus link to domain.tld/test@example.com. If I put mailto:test@example.com I get a proper email link but the link text is literally mailto:test@example.com instead of just test@example.com.

How can I get my about page to be like meta where the email is plain text or even better would be how to get a proper email link without the mailto: part being part of the link text.

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Meta has a filled-out contact email and a blank contact url.

3

But my discourse told me (in bold letters):

Until you set these required fields, your Discourse is broken!

So I thought I better put something there :smile:

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In this case, you get to choose :smile: The tip-off is supposed to be that both of them have “Used on the /about contact form for urgent matters”. Also, with digest/mobile logo url have an “If left blank” clause.

And why is “exclude rel nofollow domains” in the Required section o.o