smontanaro 

FB links have been broken recently. People have come up with various workarounds (like pasting FB URLs into message edit comments). A quick skim here suggests this problem hasn't yet been raised. Is there a reason why FB URLs are suddenly broken? Given that it's one of the most prevalent places to find bikes and parts for sale, it seems like it would be a priority to fix.

Here's an example where I believe the poster removed the "https://" prefix to get it to work:

https://www.bikeforums.net/23228288-post361.html

Here's one where it seems to have worked:

https://www.bikeforums.net/23228473-post366.html

Finally, here's one where the poster included only the FB item number:

https://www.bikeforums.net/23228690-post374.html

SoCaled 

There is a little blurb the mods put on the first page of the "are you looking" thread. https://www.bikeforums.net/23210586-post1.html but that has not really solved the problem. I would be nice if there was site wide "fix". Lots of people have found there own workarounds, the problem is most of them are not clickable "hyperlinks" I believe my links have been working and I have not had to add any extra steps (may be easier because I am on a computer, not a phone?) Before the FB issue I would highlight and copy the address from the browser bar like this:


I would copy the whole address, then some nice folks here on the forum pointed out you don't need the whole address (can stop after the question mark), is can be very big, and contains tracking info not needed to get to the item This would be like the first link in the post above.

So then I started selecting and copying the address like this - better, cleaner/smaller, worked for a while, but does not work after the FB Issues arose


So now I copy the address like this, no extra steps and I get a short/clickable hyperlink. Start before the "www" end after the question mark. This is easy to do and seems to provide a functional solve to the problem if we can't get something site wide.

IBkatherine

Hi, this was brought to our attention at the end of March of this year. It was investigated by our tech team and they found that it is an external issue on Facebook's side, so there is not really a solid fix that we can implement here.

smontanaro 

Thanks. I'm guessing it's some issue with the format of their "share" link then. Got it.