What is going on with this?
In: Technology
When you forget to start with “ELI5: ” you get an AutoModerator message saying the post is rejected *and* it has a link to resubmit with the “ELI5:” prefix, but that seems to not work out so well in the iOS app, where it becomes “ELI5%3A%20” instead.
EDIT: The link in the message is `https://old.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/submit?title=ELI5%3A%20<the original title>`. Here you have the new post title “encoded” in the URL, which is sometimes needed in order for software (most notably browsers) to understand text with special characters in the URL properly. The app however, seems to forget to “decode” the new title and takes the characters as-is.
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