A glitch was reported by rizka, where staff-colored posts don’t onebox when the link is internal. codinghorror initially thought the issue was with external vs internal links, but cpradio clarified that both examples provided were internal links. cpradio provided another example to demonstrate the issue.
codinghorror tested a staff reply, which confirmed the issue. rizka explained that one of the original links was deleted, but the issue remained. zogstrip requested that the issue be added to a list to be addressed. The issue was eventually fixed by nbianca through a GitHub pull request (https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/6466).
Yes, I linked to two consecutive posts in a topic which somebody seems to have deleted today. It existed 12 hours ago. If the topic didn’t, the first link i provided wouldn’t have oneboxed, either.
Nothing critical, but at least it’s a known issue now.