# Copying link to post into a reply does not show preview
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/copying-link-to-post-into-a-reply-does-not-show-preview/149123
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [April 24, 2020, 9:26am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/copying-link-to-post-into-a-reply-does-not-show-preview/149123 "2020-04-24T09:26:50Z")
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### Author:  [@gnyma](https://meta.discourse.org/u/gnyma)
#### Post date: [April 24, 2020, 9:26am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/copying-link-to-post-into-a-reply-does-not-show-preview/149123/1 "2020-04-24T09:26:50Z")
Shouldn’t copied and pasted links to individual posts have a preview (much like how a quote looks like)? Mine only shows a URL line, and I’m not sure what happened.
It used to work in 2018, but it doesn’t work anymore when I’m trying it in a new post (although the old posts with links to posts show a preview just fine).
Has anyone encountered this before?
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### Author:  [@Thomas\_G](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Thomas_G)
#### Post date: [April 24, 2020, 1:53pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/copying-link-to-post-into-a-reply-does-not-show-preview/149123/2 "2020-04-24T13:53:37Z")
Hello!
If you paste the link without living any space in front of the link, it should appear as a preview, something like that:
> [@Copying link to post into a reply does not show preview](https://meta.discourse.org/t/copying-link-to-post-into-a-reply-does-not-show-preview/149123):
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> Shouldn’t copied and pasted links to individual posts have a preview (much like how a quote looks like)? Mine only shows a URL line, and I’m not sure what happened. It used to work in 2018, but it doesn’t work anymore when I’m trying it in a new post (although the old posts with links to posts show a preview just fine). Has anyone encountered this before?
If you do leave space, it will appear like that:
[Copying link to post into a reply does not show preview](https://meta.discourse.org/t/copying-link-to-post-into-a-reply-does-not-show-preview/149123)
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### Author:  [@Stephen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Stephen)
#### Post date: [April 24, 2020, 2:06pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/copying-link-to-post-into-a-reply-does-not-show-preview/149123/3 "2020-04-24T14:06:06Z")
It depends on the source of the post.
You can’t link something from a category with restricted permissions, that would bypass the security placed around the topics/posts.
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### Author:  [@gnyma](https://meta.discourse.org/u/gnyma)
#### Post date: [April 24, 2020, 5:21pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/copying-link-to-post-into-a-reply-does-not-show-preview/149123/4 "2020-04-24T17:21:24Z")
Thank you Stephen!
And this includes posts within the same category? That seems weird - they would have the same permissions though, wouldn’t they?
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### Author:  [@Stephen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Stephen)
#### Post date: [April 24, 2020, 5:23pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/copying-link-to-post-into-a-reply-does-not-show-preview/149123/5 "2020-04-24T17:23:15Z")
Sure but that still assumes that some degree of permission enumeration is going on, beyond checking if the source topic is public.
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### Author:  [@gnyma](https://meta.discourse.org/u/gnyma)
#### Post date: [April 25, 2020, 4:48am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/copying-link-to-post-into-a-reply-does-not-show-preview/149123/6 "2020-04-25T04:48:27Z")
Thanks Thomas, this is helpful, but apparently it can’t work in reverse when it comes to categories that are made private! 😆
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### Author:  [@gnyma](https://meta.discourse.org/u/gnyma)
#### Post date: [April 25, 2020, 4:49am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/copying-link-to-post-into-a-reply-does-not-show-preview/149123/7 "2020-04-25T04:49:38Z")
Got it, thanks so much @Stephen! It’s a shame that it doesn’t work within the same private categories/restrictions.
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### Author:  [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [June 9, 2024, 7:31pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/copying-link-to-post-into-a-reply-does-not-show-preview/149123/8 "2024-06-09T19:31:56Z")
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### Author:  [@JammyDodger](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JammyDodger)
#### Post date: [June 9, 2024, 10:10pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/copying-link-to-post-into-a-reply-does-not-show-preview/149123/9 "2024-06-09T22:10:09Z")