Posted a link in Political Humor, to a humor piece in The Atlantic. The URL looks normal, but when clicked, it takes you to the "Fire Sale" clip from Die Hard 4 (a link which was actually posted recently in the thread about the US aviation ground stoppage).

So today I reposted the link in Humor, same URL, and it worked fine, taking you to The Atlantic when clicked. The other glitching post remains glitchy. The URLs appear identical. Never seen anything like this.

Given the subject matter of the Die Hard 4 clip, a massive hacking attack, I had to wonder if this is some sort of hacker prank.

(I verified this weirdness is not tied to a single device, logging in from three different devices)

@swansont

@Cap'n Refsmmat

Here's the post(s)

Hmm. Is it possible you had viewed the link or copied from the other place it was posted? The post editor has a feature where if you select some text, then use Paste to paste a link, the text is changed into a link to that location. If you had accidentally pasted the Die Hard link while the Atlantic link was selected, it would become a link to Die Hard.

(You can test that out by copying a link, selecting any text in the editor, and using Ctrl-V or Paste.)

Not sure what motive someone would have to hack that, but if we see weird link changes happen anywhere else, we can investigate further. Normally I'd expect a hacked link to point to ads somewhere, or a scam site, or something...