Social media originated from message boards, but it's changed a lot over time. That includes markup and the way people format stuff. I'm considering ways to catch up to modern expectations, particularly regarding links, urls, images, and videos.

What I'm hoping to do is make it so when you type a link, it auto-converts to a link. If you post an image (file that ends with .gif, .jpg, .png, .webp), it auto-converts to an image. If you post a youtube link, it auto-converts to a youtube embed. No more '[' and ']' url/link tag nonsense.

This is for a couple reasons: 1.) some of you dumbasses couldn't/wouldn't do it right, and 2.) the new way is a faster and easier way, theoretically. And to clarify what will be considered a link, it will be any text that begins with "https://" followed by any character that isn't a space or white space. It would be more similar to how links work in the shoutbox.

This change would require me to change markup in all posts and comments, and there's a lot of room for error, so I don't know when/if this will happen. I might also remove some "emoticons" since emojis are already integrated, but I know I need to keep all the dirty ones, that's for damn sure.


I'm trying to simplify things.