I was editing a WIKI post, but after a while my links to other topics in the forum fail to be updated to match the titles of the topics. For example, if I write https://meta.discourse.org/t/topic-list-previews/101646 here in this post it becomes Topic list previews as can be demonstrated: Topic Lis…

I do not know what has changed, I don’t think any admin did anything… I did not even modify the post, but now every link is rendering as it should… A silent failure that silently corrected itself? Hmmm…

[image] pfaffman: A link to your forum might help. It is for my company’s private forum not accessible to others =/ Thanks for the advice about safe mode ! I tried it out with safe mode activated, as confirmed by a banner, and it all remained the same.

[image] consideRatio: It is for my company’s private forum not accessible to others As is so often the case. . . . If safe mode doesn’t cut it, and you need private help, I’m available: Redirecting…

I was editing a WIKI post, but after a while my links to other topics in the forum fail to be updated to match the titles of the topics. I have also seen this where there are very large number of links in a single wiki post. Is that where it’s happening for you?

Ah yes I had like 15 links in the post when it stopped working, but it also happened in other posts after this I tried creating. My user is an admin user.

[image] schleifer: I have also seen this where there are very large number of links in a single wiki post. Is that where it’s happening for you? That should be limited by max oneboxes per post site setting.

[image] consideRatio: I was editing a WIKI post, but after a while my links to other topics in the forum fail to be updated to match the titles of the topics. Are all links for topics in public categories?

The links are visible to “everyone” but you still need to be signed in.

The best problems to have in life are the ones that go away when you ignore them. :+1:

In-post links to topics - no longer update to the initial posts title

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pfaffman (Jay Pfaffman) May 9, 2019, 4:33pm 2

A link to your forum might help.

Have you tried Using Safe Mode to troubleshoot issues with themes and plugins

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In-post links to topics - no longer update to the initial posts title

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