# Associate link with topic

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/associate-link-with-topic/82399
**Category:** Feature
**Tags:** featured-link
**Created:** [March 7, 2018, 10:05am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/associate-link-with-topic/82399 "2018-03-07T10:05:12Z")
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### Author: ![erlend\_sh](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/erlend_sh/32/119475_2.png) [@erlend\_sh](https://meta.discourse.org/u/erlend_sh)
#### Post date: [March 9, 2018, 5:07am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/associate-link-with-topic/82399/5 "2018-03-09T05:07:51Z")

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I actually thought [the standard behaviour we landed on here](https://meta.discourse.org/t/start-a-topic-by-pasting-a-link-like-reddit/54071) was “show link formatting if the very start of the topic is a link” but it does appear like the only way to achieve this special formatting is by pasting the link in the title bar.

IMO we should change this.

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