Conservative Software

Gregory of Yardale: This not being able to paste text from other websites is some really annoying sh-t.

See, AoS is a conservative website, technologically. Fancy extended-ASCII characters and other late developments? Letting all those liberal websites try them out, then, if it looks okay, they'll be instituted here. #twoweeks

Oldsailors Poet: OK, I thought I was nuts. I tried to cut and paste a link and I couldn't. Don't they want links shared?

They've changed the rules so URLs can contain above-ASCII characters now, haven't they? (Which means, zillions of new ways to spoof sites.)

Reminder:
http://bit.ly/pixyize
converts modern characters to antique AoS-acceptable code, but if you can't use ampersands, you're SOL.