It looks like the popular links are populated once a user clicks on a link for the first time. Can I moderate this? I would like to remove certain links but keep others. I couldn’t seem to find anything from searching. [Screen Shot 2022-03-31 at 10.51.41 AM]

Hi! and welcome, I’m not aware of such a feature. Do you imagine something per topic? Or maybe a parameter like allowed link domains that would be excluded domains from popular links (applied to every topic)?

Hiya @TC88! Let’s try adding an external link and then removing it. It will take me a couple of replies, bear with me. :slight_smile: Did you know we grade flour by burning it and seeing what’s left?! Read up on it at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flour. :sunglasses: Now I’m going to post this and click that link!

First, I added a link and clicked on it, and then it showed up as a popular link on this topic: [Screenshot 2022-04-04 at 14-20-11 How can I remove some Popular Links from the Topics Details area - support - Discourse Meta] Then I edited the reply and removed the link, and it removed it from the topic listing: [Screenshot 2022-04-04 at 14-21-04 How can I remove some Popular Links from the Topics Details area - support - Discourse Meta] And so the solution to remove popular links is to literally remove the links from the discussion. :slight_smile: If I wanted to remove certain links while retaining the info, I’d add backticks (`) on either side. I read `https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flour`! Becomes: I read https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flour! And removes the link from the popular links list. Hope that helps! :slight_smile:

How can I remove some Popular Links from the Topics Details area?

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TC88 April 6, 2022, 2:34pm 5

Amazing. Thanks for the help!

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