Ask HN: How do I make a link clickable on HN?

Posted by am2267 on Thursday October 18, 2012 @02:34PM
from the ask-hn dept.

I'm trying to make www.investopad.com clickable in a comment elsewhere.

Is it a karma thing?

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Re:Ask HN: How do I make a link clickable on HN? by benologist on Thursday October 18, 2012 @02:42PM (#4670329)

For comments you have to just type the url, no text or tags.

http://google.com/

For submissions you can submit a url or text but not both, and URLs in the text don't get parsed.

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Re:Ask HN: How do I make a link clickable on HN? by inetsee on Thursday October 18, 2012 @03:13PM (#4670488)

What you could do is submit a post describing the website and why HN readers should be interested in it. Then immediately post a comment with a clickable link to the URL.

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Re:Ask HN: How do I make a link clickable on HN? by codegeek on Thursday October 18, 2012 @04:05PM (#4670784)

To make a link clickable in a comment, you need to prefix it with "http://.

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Re:Ask HN: How do I make a link clickable on HN? by arscan on Thursday October 18, 2012 @02:43PM (#4670333)

Urls don't become links in the text of the submission. They do become links in comments.

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Re:Ask HN: How do I make a link clickable on HN? by mohit_agg on Friday October 19, 2012 @09:37AM (#4673432)

btw how much karma is required to submit a startup for review?

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