It may be--hannah was reporting problems with the rich text editor using FF3. Can you not put them in in the usual < href etc way either?

Hmm....that link worked. And shows up as a link.

Hi, Cat, I have the same problem. I just e-mailed LJ tech support. It might be a Firefox 3 issue. I haven't tried posting from Explorer.

Whoops, I should have replied to your comment. :) It's older than Firefox3, it's something that went into LJ about a week ago. Seems to work fine if you post using the HTML editor instead of the Rich Text one, and write the links manually (<a href="http://www.linkhere.com">link here</a>)

Yes, I discovered that, but it's annoying. So, everyone is having the same problem?

I think so. I do all of my links manually anyway, so I haven't had it happen -- but I've seen it on several journals for the last week, and a couple of days prior to that even weirder things were happening with links temporarily. It does seem to be at the LJ top level and not browser-related. Very annoying, though, yes.

It seems to be a problem when you use the rich text editor to post a link automatically (and possibly the HTML editor to post a link automatically instead of putting in the HTML yourself). If you post the link manually using the text editor, it shows up fine (or you edit a post and put in the link manually) -- you just have to do the a href yourself.

Annoying, though. =/ Hope they fix it soon.

Edited at 2008-06-23 06:28 pm (UTC)

Hannah Bowen is having the same problem, and she also mentioned Firefox so it seems a safe bet that's where the problem is. I'm having problems with pictures showing, odd and mysterious things are fouling the interwebs!