# Alert users of earlier dupe links
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/alert-users-of-earlier-dupe-links/40252
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [27 februari 2016 om 07:16 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/alert-users-of-earlier-dupe-links/40252 "2016-02-27T07:16:12Z")
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [27 februari 2016 om 07:16 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/alert-users-of-earlier-dupe-links/40252/1 "2016-02-27T07:16:12Z")
I think a very cool use of the “big blue area superimposed over preview” ™ would be alerting users that the exact same link appears elsewhere in the topic.
For example:
Say I am in a long topic … and in post #5 someone posted a link to `http://wow.awesome.com/cool`, later a different user comes and composes a reply containing `http://wow.awesome.com/cool`, odds are this is
1. A dupe post
2. Somehow strongly related to the post the submitted the original link
So we should simply display this in the blue area
> Bob already posted a link to `http://wow.awesome.com/cool` in post #5.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [27 februari 2016 om 07:54 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/alert-users-of-earlier-dupe-links/40252/2 "2016-02-27T07:54:40Z")
Yes this is already listed in releases under longer term not yet scheduled todo items.