It is slightly impractical to talk about development topics related to bugs when it’s not possible to link the bugs. I therefore want to suggest that the forum should allow posting links, if necessary with manual validation of some sort (even if that delays the posting) if otherwise spam becomes too unmanageable. Just downright not allowing links seems like a bit of a problem. Sorry if it’s possible after all and I’m just too confused to pull it off 
After x amount of post you can post links. Just check some of my post.
I assumed as much, but should every dev topic brought up earlier have broken links to the detriment of every person joining each such affected discussion? That seems confusing. Sorry if I’m missing something here.
Links are going to be broken from time to time. The page has been moved, the page been delete, the page may be temporarily down, etc…
you will be able to post links soon, the threashold is not high
reply to this message and at +1 to your count 
But everyone else will consistently post intentionally broken links in dev posts. That seems bad, so I’m suggesting it be addressed. I think it’ll lower the readability of worthwhile discussions quite a bit. Again, my apologies if I’m missing something and if this usually works for others.
i’ve been on here over year now and have not experienced this scourge of broken links.
i think it ever becomes a problem, it will be addressed then… but so far so good.
I looked around a bit, and it seems instead of posting broken links like I did to work around it, the effect seems to be that people just don’t link anything, even if relevant. However, that doesn’t seem to be good either.
I think manual validation is to much work.
But giving new users the ability to post links on discuss should work. The flagging system is good, so spam links get hidden automatically and if a new user gets reported enough they get blocked from posting.
I think discourse is better equipped to handle this than BKO and Matrix where new users are allowed to post links.
Can we give this a try @sitter @carl @bcooksley ?
With the rare exception people post in good faith including their links. Sometimes for any number of reasons a link will go dead, but again the vast majority of the time it was active when added to a post.
Each bug report has a unique id associated with it.
Simply pasting that into the corresponding post here will suffice - no need to paste the entire URL.
This is the internet. Opening up the ability to post links from new users will lead to misuse. After a while sticking with the community here, participating in the discussions, and helping others will allow you to post links. It works better like that in my opinion since it tends to weed out those with bad intentions.
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Perhaps the forum could whitelist any *.kde.org/* URLs, or perhaps recognize bug URLs in particular and transform them? Both would be helpful to deal with this issue.
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Discourse is already configured to allow posting links to certain domains without any trust level being needed. Unfortunately it looks like this doesn’t cover subdomains though so just having “kde.org” there is not sufficient.
I’ve now added bugs.kde.org to that list.
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