# Topic embedding needs some love

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/topic-embedding-needs-some-love/262763>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [April 24, 2023, 10:32pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/topic-embedding-needs-some-love/262763 "2023-04-24T22:32:35Z")\
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**Author:** ![angus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/angus/32/341715_2.png) [@angus](https://meta.discourse.org/u/angus)\
**Post date:** [November 2, 2023, 7:30am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/topic-embedding-needs-some-love/262763/12 "2023-11-02T07:30:26Z")

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> [@sam](#):
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> I guess what you are calling for is removal of the embedding feature

Not necessarily. I’m saying there needs to be better expectation management.

> [@sam](#):
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> I think sites that are embedding very messy content should use this simple “link to original” form. However sites that are embedding better structured contents can make use of the reader mode albeit it being imperfect.

99% of people running a website are not going to know wether their HTML is sufficiently semantic to be easily parsed by a gem like readability, or even that that is what is determinative of how the feature works. The default assumption of users is that there is an issue “in Discourse” (or more often in the [WP Discourse](https://github.com/discourse/wp-discourse) plugin) when there isn’t 100% fidelity between the post on their site and the content that appears when the user clicks “Show Full Post”.

> [@sam](#):
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> should use this simple “link to original” form

Making an option like having a “Read Full Post” CTA easy to enable, and perhaps the default, would help I think.

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