# Markdown links not working without https://?

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**Created:** [October 3, 2025, 2:26am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/markdown-links-not-working-without-https/384591 "2025-10-03T02:26:49Z")\
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> [@supermathie](#):
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> even though if you type [example.com](http://example.com) by itself it’ll get turned into a link.

Yeah, that was my (hopeful!) justification for why the markdown links should also do that. But I’m slowly accepting the fact this isn’t going to happen (and that it never did).

I just tried on Reddit and without the https:// it doesn’t even make it a link at all.

I guess the only thing I would still have to suggest is that it not look like a link if it isn’t going to be a link (which is the current behaviour). This seems to be the least helpful of all options, although better than being a relative link. I think the Reddit behaviour of not being a link at all might be best, unless it can detect that it should be a relative link to something on the site itself.

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