Links as footer notes (instead of inline)

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Back in the day, before the new Discourse composer, the inserted links were added at the end of the post, not inline (se below).

Wonder if this can be re-enabled in any way, as writing a post with more than a couple of links will make the editing a little nightmareish.

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There’s a setting you can toggle for this, display footnotes inline:

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Sam has recently turned it off on meta so it should follow that behaviour on here[1][2]

Or do you mean this style[3]

Or do you mean this style[^3]

[^3]: meta.discourse.org

  1. I think ↩︎

  2. or at least if you’re not on mobile Just checked on mobile and I see non-inline ones on there too :+1: ↩︎

  3. meta.discourse.org ↩︎

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@JammyDodger This is NOT related to footnotes per se, it’s purely for links. I think it’s about Reference-style Links.

Here is a more obvious example that it includes the preview and some explanations. As you can see, the second variant is much easier to read.

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I did not know about these. :slight_smile:

This is NOT related to footnotes per se, it’s purely for links. I think it’s about Reference-style Links

Did they used to happen automatically?

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Back in the day (like… 4-5 years ago)? Yes, that was the only option to enter links (when clicking on hyperlink icon or pressing ctrl+k). The link is then referenced by its index (but you can enter there whatever you’d want)

If you had multiple links and inserting a new link, the numbering was automagically updated.

Then the new editor came and this feature was gone :frowning:

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