When will IMDb's "under the hood" board improvements fix long links?

2013 stopped being "the future" four months + ago. Sorry to inform you.

I know of one site that is much worse than IMDb. It's the blog system on the New York Times. They apparently have never updated their table of characters that are allowed in links. They also convert codes like %20 too early and break the link that way.

A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, the IMDb board system did not cause breaks in links. Unfortunately, rendering long links caused display problems. Breaking links that are too long at separators was the solution that IMDb implemented. If a user does not edit a post after previewing it or posting it, there are no problems because IMDb still retains the original link. However, the added space (or spaces for really long links) are retained in future edits and cause the links to fail.

A number of posters to IMDb include both the original link and a shorter link created from sites such as tinyURL (http://tinyurl.com/).

Sites such as getsatifaction only show a portion of long links. The IMDb board system was derived in part from Bulletin Board Code (BBCode). Some implementations of BBCode also only show a portion of long links.

I will write this up as a suggestion.

You're right Dan, I just deleted a post with a link affected this way. It definitely should be fixed, however. Because there is a [url] tag involved, it should be an easy fix. I'd also like to see the BBCode tag that allows link text to be included.