# Highlight and share feature

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/highlight-and-share-feature/56708>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [February 1, 2017, 10:18am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/highlight-and-share-feature/56708 "2017-02-01T10:18:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)\
**Post date:** [February 1, 2017, 12:39pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/highlight-and-share-feature/56708/2 "2017-02-01T12:39:34Z")

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Why? You can simply share the URL to the post. Every Discourse post and topic has OpenGraph / oEmbed tags so it will display appropriately, with an automatic excerpt. Try pasting a link to a Discourse post in Facebook or Twitter to see what I mean. Like so

 ![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/1/1/1107f0e28008178d4c2606dc984ae050abb85f02.png)

This would also make quoting more confusing, and elevate the rare use case – “I need to share just this third paragraph of the post” – above the simple use case – “I need to share this post”.

At best plugin material.

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