Link topics after they have already been closed

Yes this is already built in, and has been since 2013. Let me illustrate by linking another topic here.

All I did to create the above :point_up_2: was paste in this link like so

https://meta.discourse.org/t/when-personal-messages-are-disabled-can-users-still-message-a-group/201167

Now watch what it looks like on the other side…

… see the bidirectional link at the bottom of the post? This works for any post in any Discourse topic.