# Embedding external markdown

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/embedding-external-markdown/118601>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [May 24, 2019, 11:08am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/embedding-external-markdown/118601 "2019-05-24T11:08:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![hellekin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/hellekin/32/51636_2.png) [@hellekin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/hellekin)\
**Post date:** [May 25, 2019, 8:12am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/embedding-external-markdown/118601/3 "2019-05-25T08:12:56Z")

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> [@codinghorror](#):
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> Why not just have a link to it

You cannot que not use any other Discourse feature on a link. The idea is to integrate the content, not just link to it.

> [@codinghorror](#):
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> you could whitelist an `<iframe>`

Why not have native markdown instead? JavaScript can do that, right?

Just thinking ahead of the ActivityPub support: if instances can already have a mechanism to relay existing content from one another, it all gets easier to follow a single topic across instances, and to generate static sites from Discourse topics.

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