# Links generated by "link summary" feature count towards link count

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/links-generated-by-link-summary-feature-count-towards-link-count/35316
**Category:** Bug
**Tags:** onebox
**Created:** [November 6, 2015, 10:27pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/links-generated-by-link-summary-feature-count-towards-link-count/35316 "2015-11-06T22:27:25Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
**Page:** 1

<div class="post-metadata">

### Author: ![mgalgs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/mgalgs/32/122112_2.png) [@mgalgs](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mgalgs)
#### Post date: [November 6, 2015, 10:27pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/links-generated-by-link-summary-feature-count-towards-link-count/35316/1 "2015-11-06T22:27:25Z")

</div>

One nice feature of discourse is the “link summary”, as described in the welcome message:

> To generate a summary for a link, paste it on a line by itself:

The only problem is that the links _generated_ by the “link summary” feature seem to count towards the link count for the post. For new users that can only post up to two links at a time, this makes it impossible to use the “link summary” feature, depending on the link being summarized…

For example, I recently tried to paste a github link on the rust forums, and hit this error message:

 ![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/6/4/5/645aa86b2f0eda028783e734b7e4b45d4d5869a6.png)  
Is this intended? It seems like the two-link limit should only apply to links within the post text area, not the generated markup (since that pulls in other links from things like the “link summary”).

---

<div class="post-metadata">

### 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: [November 6, 2015, 10:32pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/links-generated-by-link-summary-feature-count-towards-link-count/35316/2 "2015-11-06T22:32:04Z")

</div>

Sure, this makes sense, can you provide an exact repro? Just start as a new TL0 user and paste a link to..?

---

<div class="post-metadata">

### Author: ![mgalgs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/mgalgs/32/122112_2.png) [@mgalgs](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mgalgs)
#### Post date: [November 7, 2015, 12:03am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/links-generated-by-link-summary-feature-count-towards-link-count/35316/3 "2015-11-07T00:03:11Z")

</div>

> [@codinghorror](#):
>
> Just start as a new TL0 user and paste a link to..?

Yes, just make sure the page on the other end of the link actually has more than two links on it. So:

1. Start as a new user
2. Make a post and paste the following link on its own line so that it gets “summarized”: [https://github.com/google/fonts/issues/10](https://github.com/google/fonts/issues/10)
3. Try to submit (should say: “New users can only post two links at a time”)