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Mar 1, 2026 at 12:55am

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Re: How do I make an x-link?

by The StoryMaster

Live conversion had a too small limit of 100 characters before it "stopped listening" to typed tags like that and it stopped tried to convert them past 100 characters. After that, it just defaulted to DB'ing them. Your x-link has a total of 103, so it was just edged out.

The 100 was arbitrarily small, just an initial value I had set while developing. It's now a more hefty 500 characters.

The Castle of Otranto

(Took me a few minutes to figure this one out because pasting the x-link worked fine because that didn't have a limit so I then knew it wasn't something like that % in the URL.)

All that aside, x-link is a legacy tag - the v3 editor has a more syntactically correct v3-link. You can add one using the Creative Tools "Link" and then check the {/} if you want to learn that new syntax for hand typing.

(X-link will continue to work but that one won't get added to the @ or anything like that because it's technically wrong and should have never been created in the format it used.