Is there a way to put a link in a message or post and NOT have it show the page?
When I put a link to a page that is on my membership site, instead of displaying the link, it shows a message that the user is not logged in - which is confusing.
I’d like to post a link, but not have it show the website itself. And if it’s possible to make that link open into another tab that would be awesome too.
Am I understanding right — you don’t want this:
but this instead:
https://meta.discourse.org/t/use-google-search-by-default/249951
If so you get it for example using this instead of plain url: <https://meta.discourse.org/t/use-google-search-by-default/249951>
Yes! so I just put it in a bracket? Awesome! Do you have a solution for opening it in another tab too?
Internal links you can’t by default, I reckon.
You can try using ```<A href…> tag like this:
<a href="https://meta.discourse.org/t/use-google-search-by-default/249951" target="_blank">link text here</a>
I don’t know if it works but it is easy ti try out 
edit: did not work here
External ones follow admin-setting default other external links in new tab.
Thanks, I was wondering if regular html links with the target blank would work … I appreciate the help. If not… it’s not a big deal!
Your link has the target="_blank" attribute in your message and opens in a new tab when left clicking on it, so it works, unless I’m misunderstanding something?
On a side note, if I quote your message, it will transform your link as a standard markdown link and trim the target attribute, removing the new tab opening inside the quote.
edit: oh, you edited your message so mine does make little sense now. But still, a manual link with target="_blank" works, and it’s worth noting that there’s also a per-user setting for external links only:
https://meta.discourse.org/my/preferences/interface
No you aren’t. But open in the new tab didn’t work at the Hub and I was too lazy to check it on Safari. But when I did right click, aka. long press, from that open command opened to browser as expected. Apple has its own solutions everywhere
I added closing </a> but it was shortly after I published that answer (and I would like to put thinking emoji here but emojies aren’t here; strange).
It’s up to the developer to decide how links are handled in their apps.
In the iOS settings for the DiscourseHub app there’s a toggle to determine if they open in-app or your default browser.
Thank you for the help!
That’s true. And yet external links are opened at Safari, even that is disabled. Anything else would be strange.
If you put a space before the link (or any other characters), Discourse will not draw the preview:
How to stop links from showing the site
This applies to internal and external links.
Without the space:
Thank you! I also found that putting the link between < and > works…
Yes it does. I just mentioned the leading space because it’s a bit quicker to type… just space, paste, and go. 
Hello,
Just another tip for external links 
You can also block the onebox by domain. This is a good solution if you want to block it for the whole domain.
There is a site setting: blocked onebox domains where you can add those domains for which you don’t want the onebox to generate.
For example: I added wikipedia.org to it.
So it won’t generate onebox for Wikipedia links.
