"Inline" and "Card" links not working?

[SiDawg]

Today I've noticed that "inline links" are no longer working (and neither are "card" links)

As far as I can tell there are two types of links:

• Confluence Links (links to confluence pages)
• External Links (links to other websites etc)

When you create a link to a confluence page (a 'confluence link'), it gives you three options as a small hover menu when clicking the link:

• URL (i.e. simple/standard text link: you can set the display text and the URL with 'edit link')
• Inline (a nicely formatted button that will show the confluence page description as opposed to URL, and it does this dynamically if the page changes so you don't have to use 'edit link' like the URL option)
• Card - Same as above but bigger and more information

When you create an "external link" it just creates a link similar to the "URL" option, and doesn't give the option to change to inline or card. 

So the problem i'm having, is that when pasting confluence links: they get created as URL links with display text = to the page description, but when I try to make them inline or card, there's a spinny/hourglass waiting icon that eventually just times out, and it reverts to an external link (no option to go inline/card) and it removes the display text

When editing existing pages, it's doing the same thing: all the inline links change to text go in to "thinking" mode with a waiting icon next to them, eventually that times out, and they revert to external links as above.

Wondering if this is happening for anyone else? Otherwise ill raise a ticket. One thing i can think of is that I was changing some page titles today: I had two pages with the same name "watermarks (2)" and "watermarks"... i changed "watermarks" to "watermarks functional requirements" and changed "watermarks (2)" to just "watermarks"... So although still not violating the "two pages can't have same name" rule, maybe this has confused the indexing or something because I know the original name is always retained as the actual URL? But the problem appears for all links... and is still happening after i changed those page names back to how they were.

[SiDawg · Accepted solution]

OK nevermind it's working again :) Maybe was related to indexing issue i introduced but its reindexed now?

[SiDawg]

Also just visiting existing pages with inline links (not even editing) will show the hourglass/spinny thing at the left of the inline link and then eventually just display the text external link (URL only with no display text)