# Discobot cannot distinguish between OneBox and linked text formatting

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/discobot-cannot-distinguish-between-onebox-and-linked-text-formatting/396593
**Category:** Bug
**Tags:** discobot
**Created:** [February 20, 2026, 11:58am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discobot-cannot-distinguish-between-onebox-and-linked-text-formatting/396593 "2026-02-20T11:58:59Z")
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### Author: ![Noble\_Fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ad7895/32.png) [@Noble\_Fish](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Noble_Fish)
#### Post date: [February 20, 2026, 11:58am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discobot-cannot-distinguish-between-onebox-and-linked-text-formatting/396593/1 "2026-02-20T11:58:59Z")

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I think this step is intended to help users learn how to use OneBox, as it mentions

> it’ll automatically expand to include a nifty summary.

However, users of the rich text editor often directly copy and paste text with links, which prevents the reply content from rendering as OneBox, yet discobot treats this situation as if there is no issue and proceeds to the next step.

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/8/a/f/8affcf58f910e4bc6aae4c1c8ec0ae83d501228a.png)

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### Author: ![Moin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/moin/32/554653_2.png) [@Moin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Moin)
#### Post date: [February 20, 2026, 1:22pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discobot-cannot-distinguish-between-onebox-and-linked-text-formatting/396593/2 "2026-02-20T13:22:02Z")

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I think this might be a result of the fix here: [Discobot didn't recognize link in tutorial - #19 by martin](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discobot-didnt-recognize-link-in-tutorial/229146/19)

> [@](#):
>
> This commit fixes the issue by following a more simplified  
> approach, where we check for the existence of one of the  
> following links from the onebox instructions:
> 
> ```plaintext
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inherently_funny_word
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_by_coconut
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calculator_spelling
> 
> ```

In your example, the link exists, but it’s not a onebox 🤷‍♀️

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### Author: ![Noble\_Fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ad7895/32.png) [@Noble\_Fish](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Noble_Fish)
#### Post date: [February 20, 2026, 1:29pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discobot-cannot-distinguish-between-onebox-and-linked-text-formatting/396593/3 "2026-02-20T13:29:16Z")

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It seems that a judgment for the `](` format is missing.

I went through the guidance process three times, and then decisively asked the user to complete the guidance using the Markdown editor in the very first message. 🙂  
Although, even when using the Markdown editor, people need to use Ctrl+Shift+V when pasting text containing links to paste it as plain text rather than as link text with the page title as its content.