Remarkably, apparently either the server or the client replace backslashes in Markdown links with forward slashes, which is completely bogus and nonsensical.
This might be true perhaps; but the crux of the matter is that I shouldn’t do more than the traditional human-oriented escaping of the addresses, which relies extensively on plain and friendly backslashes, instead of devilish and time-consuming machine-produced percent-codes.
Remarkably, apparently either the server or the client replace backslashes in Markdown links with forward slashes, which is completely bogus and nonsensical.
The correct link is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racetrack_(game)
Also interesting that you’re the first person to raise this issue after two hours and ten upvotes.
You can still make a hyperlink by escaping
()as%28%29.[Racetrack (game)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racetrack_%28game%29)Racetrack (game)
This might be true perhaps; but the crux of the matter is that I shouldn’t do more than the traditional human-oriented escaping of the addresses, which relies extensively on plain and friendly backslashes, instead of devilish and time-consuming machine-produced percent-codes.
Sweet, that was racing fast