# URLs in parenthesis do not turn into links

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/urls-in-parenthesis-do-not-turn-into-links/30479
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [June 26, 2015, 5:46am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/urls-in-parenthesis-do-not-turn-into-links/30479 "2015-06-26T05:46:41Z")
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### Author: ![sam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sam/32/102149_2.png) [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [June 26, 2015, 6:33am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/urls-in-parenthesis-do-not-turn-into-links/30479/11 "2015-06-26T06:33:18Z")

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Also, our autolinker is one of the more annoying regexes we ship, and it has plenty holes [https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/master/app/assets/javascripts/discourse/dialects/autolink\_dialect.js](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/master/app/assets/javascripts/discourse/dialects/autolink_dialect.js)

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