# Did you change the URL coding?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-change-the-url-coding/588868>\
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**Created:** [July 13, 2011, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-change-the-url-coding/588868 "2011-07-13T14:15:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![Enderw24](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ba9def/32.png) [@Enderw24](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enderw24)\
**Post date:** [July 13, 2011, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-change-the-url-coding/588868/1 "2011-07-13T14:15:42Z")

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testing (all links go back to this thread):

testing

[http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/newthread.php?do=newthread&f=2](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/newthread.php?do=newthread&f=2)

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> [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/newthread.php?do=newthread&f=2](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/newthread.php?do=newthread&f=2)

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> [testing](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/newthread.php?do=newthread&f=2)

Hmm…

On preview, I’m not seeing it on these links, but on some links (especially those that are quoted links), the cursor hovering over the link doesn’t change the cursor to the little hand icon that shows it’s a clickable URL. Is this just me? Am I being weird here? I dunno.

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**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\
**Post date:** [July 13, 2011, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-change-the-url-coding/588868/2 "2011-07-13T18:26:59Z")

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I’m seeing the finger icon over the links as I normally do. No problems on my end. Although sometimes if my browser starts hogging my PC’s resources it’ll slow down and I won’t see it right away. But everything’s working fine for me, ATM, and I see the pointy hand over the links.

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**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\
**Post date:** [July 14, 2011, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-change-the-url-coding/588868/3 "2011-07-14T00:41:48Z")

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We have made no changes as far as I know.