# Improved UX for external quotes
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/improved-ux-for-external-quotes/33688
**Category:** UX
**Tags:** markdown-it-review
**Created:** [2015年九月24日 10:32 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/improved-ux-for-external-quotes/33688 "2015-09-24T10:32:18Z")
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [2015年九月25日 04:09 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/improved-ux-for-external-quotes/33688/11 "2015-09-25T04:09:18Z")
I agree that quoting off topic is not terribly common, however linking off topic by simply pasting a link is common enough.
The code path for linking off topic and quoting off topic is pretty much identical, in both case we use the same renderer:
```plaintext
[quote="codinghorror, post:3, topic:13999"]
Yeah there is still a lot of work to do in this area cc: @eviltrout
[/quote]
https://meta.discourse.org/t/when-moving-posts-links-quotes-that-were-moved-too-dont-get-updated/13999/3?u=sam
```
> [@codinghorror](#):
>
> Yeah there is still a lot of work to do in this area cc: @eviltrout
[https://meta.discourse.org/t/when-moving-posts-links-quotes-that-were-moved-too-dont-get-updated/13999/3?u=sam](https://meta.discourse.org/t/when-moving-posts-links-quotes-that-were-moved-too-dont-get-updated/13999/3)
I started patching this up here:
>
I do feel this is ripe for a review when we move to the new Markdown engine
- Preview don’t work right cause of [Zalgo API](https://meta.discourse.org/t/wrong-avatar-in-preview-window-when-quote-replying-from-multiple-topics/19684/3)
- The whole quote format is not robust enough to handle topic moves.
- We do not support the ability to quote (or onebox) secure topics and get title expansions cause applying security is a nightmare. (do all the users looking at this topic have permission to see the other topic? very hard to answer)
- This ?
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