Topic: Sharing a post to reddit is only submitting a partial URL

[Wellwisher]

I am making a social Reddit share button. The issue is when I click on "Share on Reddit" it only records a partial SMF topic post URL on reddit EXAMPLE.

Here's my JSfiddle example which replicates the issue:

https://jsfiddle.net/doLwkc92/

So on reddit if the actual forum post url is say for EXAMPLE:

"https://www.website.com/forum/index.php?topic=876.msg104178%23msg104178"

When shared on reddit, it only records:

"https://www.website.com/forum/index.php"

However here's where it gets interesting, when a user shares a forum post on reddit, it doesn't "submit" the full post URL, but if they refresh the reddit page (once u share it), it fixes itself automatically. 


Below is the actual PHP code used in my forum:

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<li><a href="https://www.reddit.com/submit?title='. urlencode($context['subject']) .'&amp;url=', $scripturl, '?topic=', $context['current_topic'], '.msg' . $message['id'] . '%23msg' . $message['id'] . '" title="Share on Reddit" target="_blank"><i class="fa  fa-reddit-alien"></i></a></li>


I believe the problem may be the "URL decoder" not working properly on Reddit but not sure.

[Kindred]

Its a reddit problem with the ? and & argument notations

[Wellwisher]

Its a reddit problem with the ? and & argument notations

Ah thank you @Kindred, so I wasn't going crazy, I suspected it as much because when you refresh the reddit page, it fixes itself.

It's the "?", "&", "=" that's throwing reddit off.

Is there a fix for this issue?

[Kindred]

It's not an smf problem

You could use pretty URLs

[Wellwisher]

It's not an smf problem

You could use pretty URLs

It's a neat idea. I would as it's a clever little add on. However it doesn't play well with SMF updates and other addons made for SMF.

Thank you for your input Kindred, as usual I really appreciate it. I will submit a bug report to reddit.  Much respect mate.