Allow http or nothing in forum links #364
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Problem
In #331, we added automatic parsing of forum links on the profile page to make them more easily clickable.
However, thanks to #345, we are able to easily jump back to the very earliest accounts, which predate the ubiquity of HTTPS on the interwebs, so their forum links start with
http://
:One user even left off that part of the URL completely:
Currently these profiles do not benefit from the parsing and formatting of #331.
Cause
The regex for parsing the links starts with
https
. This is unnecessarily restrictive.Changes
Now the regex allows
http://
links or justforum....