# Quoting across discourse instances with links getting process as local links **URL:** \ **Category:** Bug\ **Created:** [Abril 24, 2015, 2:14am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/quoting-across-discourse-instances-with-links-getting-process-as-local-links/27889 "2015-04-24T02:14:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 1
**Author:** ![anon25879736](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e95f7d/32.png) [@anon25879736](https://meta.discourse.org/u/anon25879736)\ **Post date:** [Abril 24, 2015, 2:14am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/quoting-across-discourse-instances-with-links-getting-process-as-local-links/27889/1 "2015-04-24T02:14:20Z")
Before I get into this, I want to mention that I was going to try duplicating this on try.discourse, but it appears to be offline. Since I didn’t want to pollute things experimenting here, I’m just presenting what I found at WTDWTF. Ok, basic description. Generally when quoting a post by using a link, you get pretty reliable results. However, when I have been trying to quote posts from here over at WTDWTF, I’ve been getting 1 of 2 results: 1. The topic ID and post number are parsed from the link, and then the relevant post from WTDWTF is wuoted instead of the post from here. [[Example](http://what.thedailywtf.com/t/meta-d-link-getting-baked-as-wtdwtf-link-and-displaying-a-wtdwtf-quote/48129?u=abarker)] 2. The link is left bare. Base on experimentation, it appears that this is because the corresponding topic at WTDWTF is restricted access, or the corresponding post does not exist. [[Example](http://what.thedailywtf.com/t/the-thread-of/1000/40503?u=abarker)] Let’s see what happens here when I try to link to the corresponding bug report at WTDWTF: > **[What the Daily WTF?](https://what.thedailywtf.com/login)** --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/quoting-across-discourse-instances-with-links-getting-process-as-local-links/27889)._