Hi, Not sure if this is known or not, but just in case.. I created a new topic and accidentally pasted the URL I was going to paste into the body of the topic into the Title field… 100% completely my fault… however, Discourse turned this into a link under the title, yet I am unable to find anyway …

That’s a feature of Reddit style topic creation: [image] Start a topic by pasting a link (like Reddit) megaphoneAnnouncements We looked over the checked in work with @neil and are going to make it work this way, which I think is much simpler – it obviates the …

Thanks for the reply… I’m on 20 out of 75 replies on that thread but haven’t spotted one that mentions an “undo” or “change” kinda option for it. Is the only way to dispose of the topic in question and to start again? As I say, it was entirely my fault for pasting too quickly…

I don’t think you can undo how the topic was created, but I haven’t really played with this option. If you want to hide them entirely, you can probably do that with CSS.

No, its ok, I’ve had a look through the settings and what was in that thread appears to have changed since I think. I don’t think there is a way to change the link after or remove it. Thanks for the replies though.

I’m guessing you pasted the link, which populated the body and preview, and then you changed the title. That’s the normal flow for these reddit-style topics. If you had cleared the body too, the composer would have been reset and the link removed. We’ve been trying to avoid yet-another UI element fo…

Hi @neil , That sounds like exactly the steps I took as it happens, I think the only maybe different was that after the link got oneboxed in the body, I changed the title (as you mentioned) and then changed the body. It wasn’t until I had posted that I noticed the little link under the topic. At f…

Thank you for the follow-up Jeff, and to @neil for the functionality, appreciated :slight_smile:

Topic with URL pasted in title, can't remove the link?

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codinghorror (Jeff Atwood) Mai 7, 2019, 11:29 9

@neil did eventually add a way to remove topic links, press edit on the topic title and you’ll get a little X to remove the link.

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