# Start a topic by pasting a link (like Reddit)

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/start-a-topic-by-pasting-a-link-like-reddit/54071
**Category:** Announcements
**Tags:** new-feature, featured-link
**Created:** [2016年十二月6日 00:18 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/start-a-topic-by-pasting-a-link-like-reddit/54071 "2016-12-06T00:18:41Z")
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### Author: ![mcwumbly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/mcwumbly/32/103861_2.png) [@mcwumbly](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mcwumbly)
#### Post date: [2016年十二月9日 12:30 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/start-a-topic-by-pasting-a-link-like-reddit/54071/11 "2016-12-09T12:30:44Z")

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A thought I had this morning would take this in a very different direction, but thought I’d throw it out there for consideration in the future.

What if, instead of, or in addition to, this explicit link sharing, _all_ links shared in _any_ post were visible in one, centralized place?

In some ways, this would be similar to how the links are displayed in the topic summary, but with a UX that looks more like the topic list.

Metadata which could be shown alongside the link or in some expanded detail-view of the link:

- total aggregate clicks
- references back to the posts where they were originally shared
- who shared them
- how many times they have been shared
- when they were first and most recently shared

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