Admittedly, this is really neither a bug report nor a feature request... rather, it's an attempt to verify my sanity concerning a feature of these forums. This seemed to be the most appropriate place to so.

Today I noticed that simply typing in a web address automatically converts that address into a hyperlink. My understanding is that this was not a feature of this board until very recently... I seem to recall seeing complete URL's that were not links. Was this feature added recently, or am I just crazy?

Typing www.shadowrunrpg.com does not seem to create a hyperlink. However:

{url}www.shadowrunrpg.com{/url}
{}=[]
www.shadowrunrpg.com

no, but typing http://www.shadowrunrpg.com does

try it, I didnt use the url tags.

Sweet, that might save some time. Or something.

http://kitsune.rydia.net/gallery/perspectivebleu.html

Note that it does add the URL tags, though, as you say, automatically.