any one else having slashes and things replaced by hex shit when they change their home site url for their profiles?

Yeah, I was having that. Notice the 'was'.

TLDR; change urls from https:// to http:// and it will work.

Paste the url you're setting back into the box, and change the https:// at the front to http:// . What seems to be happening is that the site is prefixing http:// to any URL that starts with something else, then changing any special characters (like slashes) out with their escape character equivalents (the % gobbledegook you're seeing).

fixed! ^__^

thanks