# Permalinks within Discourse

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/permalinks-within-discourse/105589>\
**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [January 3, 2019, 3:35pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/permalinks-within-discourse/105589 "2019-01-03T15:35:38Z")\
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**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:** [January 4, 2019, 1:37am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/permalinks-within-discourse/105589/3 "2019-01-04T01:37:53Z")

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We keep seeing users try to abuse permalinks in this manner, therefore our UI is broken. How can we make it more clear what this feature is for in the UI @techAPJ? Can we generate an error when someone tries to generate an internal permalink?

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