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Auto-correcting links???

dante

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Feb 13, 2004
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binary visions

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Jun 13, 2002
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I missed this before.

Yes, I have noticed this issue with our media embedding system. I am tempted to turn it off for things like Wikipedia, Amazon, etc. links since there's very little value in their embedded bits and occasionally it grabs ahold of media that can't be embedded. I just haven't sat down to pick through the hundreds of media types to figure out which ones are valid.

I'll check into the ESPN link since it looks like it's matching a pattern that is normally a video which is why it's trying to auto-correct it. If ESPN simply makes their links all look the same, though, there's not much I can do.