God I thought it was just me. But yeah, same problem!

Oh, I've also experienced this! It has something to do with the way FA automatically shortens links.

Happened to be with another artist. I assumed they had copied the link wrong, but guess it's FA's fault.

It has to do with HTML character escaping, most likely a bug in the site's code when making URLs clickable.

This would be a character escaping bug, file a trouble ticket for it.

Yeah I opened a ticket already. Let's hope things gets fixed soon enough.

Hopefully it's a quick fix. In the meantime you could use a url shortener service to get around the issue.

Apparently is something to do how Fa handles with link lately.

https://x.com/Rise_the_drake/status.....93835739967537

Funny how this post is from day 18th, but my links were still working properly until yesterday, day 20th.

I was wondering why my links were messed up! I'm glad its not something on Dropbox's side, at least. I'm probably going to need to switch to google drive for a bit >w>

This, or you can still share the Dropbox link without the "dropbox.com" and ask your contact to include it manually right before the download address.

Oh! Thanks for the info, that'll make things a lot easier until its all fixed up -w-

I hadn’t noticed that before 🤔

Yeah, it was working fine here until today.

Sometimes it wouldn’t open very huge files, but that’s just a common issue for me, though I’m not much an expert, errors can be such a bxxch

Omg, there's no escape

Pun intended :D

I noticed that too.
& is just encoded & (stands for ampersand). This is usually needed to correctly display special characters, and for HTML's sake, the ampersand is kinda one. The only issue is that they run that whole search-and-replace of & to & not only for the note text (where your browser handles it and just shows an &) but also the link targets

Copypasting the whole address from the reply-box works out and is probably easier than manually replacing & with &

for people curious:
Every website is in the end HTML, a markup language that describes what a website should look like. That's what you see when you right click and select "view source".
Now there's an issue. You might want to have < and > as text on your web site, but oh no, those are used in a special way in HTML. So how do you get them to show up in text? Also how about symbols not usually in the basic character set HTML wants to use? Well whoever made HTML was clever and thought "hey, why don't we use a system like &keyword; to get browsers to translate plain text into special characters? We could write &lt; for less-than, <, and &gt; for greater-than, >!"
The issue with that is.. If you say that & is the start of such a special sequence.. what do you do if someone wants just plain old &?
And that's where &amp; comes in. It's an & that doesn't confuse browsers.

Now, &keyword; was only intended for text. Not links. So.. FA also applying it to links is an issue.

(note, I dumbed it down some, don't cherrypick me)

fun fact, part of the above looks like this in HTML: https://files.catbox.moe/li4c21.png
you can see it yourself if you choose "view page source" here.
you notice that what looked like > in my text is indeed &gt; and what looked like &gt; in my text is indeed &amp;gt; -with the amp telling the browser to not actually convert the whole thing
(also &quot; is for ", quote)


and yes, I realize nobody asked. Lemme geek out *pout*

FA the eternal glitch.

FA still doesn't have their thumbnails working.