# What exactly is "topic featured link"?
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-exactly-is-topic-featured-link/59749
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [3월 23, 2017, 7:36오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-exactly-is-topic-featured-link/59749 "2017-03-23T07:36:11Z")
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### Author:  [@int19h](https://meta.discourse.org/u/int19h)
#### Post date: [3월 23, 2017, 7:36오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-exactly-is-topic-featured-link/59749/1 "2017-03-23T07:36:11Z")
I enabled the “topic featured link enabled” setting, but I can’t quite figure out what this is supposed to do. I can see that when I create a new topic, the “Topic” field says “… or paste a link”. However, when I actually do that, the topic simply has the actual link for a title, which is hardly readable - and furthermore, the link is not navigable. I was assuming that this would be more involved, e.g. fetching the page and determining its actual title, and using that for the title of the topic, while also providing an icon or button to navigate to the link. Am I missing something?
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [3월 23, 2017, 9:15오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-exactly-is-topic-featured-link/59749/2 "2017-03-23T09:15:00Z")
You can read our 1.7 blog entry about the release for a demo video.
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### Author:  [@SidV](https://meta.discourse.org/u/SidV)
#### Post date: [3월 31, 2017, 4:50오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-exactly-is-topic-featured-link/59749/3 "2017-03-31T16:50:24Z")
Same doubt here 🤔
> [@codinghorror](#):
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> You can read our 1.7 blog entry
This is the blog post?
> **[Discourse 1.7 released!](https://blog.discourse.org/2017/01/discourse-1-7-released/)**
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> Today, after four months of work, we’re proud to release Discourse 1.7.
Featured link is about “Start Topic With a Link” ?
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### Author:  [@int19h](https://meta.discourse.org/u/int19h)
#### Post date: [3월 31, 2017, 6:05오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-exactly-is-topic-featured-link/59749/4 "2017-03-31T18:05:27Z")
Yes. The short answer is that if nothing special happens when you try to use a link as topic, then the target website doesn’t support whatever magic sauce is needed to fetch the data. Facebook seems to be using the same thing, so if your link doesn’t show anything but the link itself when you paste it in a Facebook post, then it will do the same on Discourse.
Try a link to e.g. Wikipedia to see what it is supposed to look like.
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### Author:  [@tophee](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tophee)
#### Post date: [5월 10, 2017, 1:28오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-exactly-is-topic-featured-link/59749/5 "2017-05-10T13:28:49Z")
> [@int19h](#):
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> target website doesn’t support whatever magic sauce is needed to fetch the data.
And that magic sauce is called [Open Graph](http://ogp.me/), right?
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### Author:  [@neil](https://meta.discourse.org/u/neil)
#### Post date: [5월 10, 2017, 2:53오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-exactly-is-topic-featured-link/59749/6 "2017-05-10T14:53:17Z")
This is the original discussion:
> [@Start a topic by pasting a link (like Reddit)](https://meta.discourse.org/t/start-a-topic-by-pasting-a-link-like-reddit/54071):
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> We looked over the checked in work with @neil and are going to make it work this way, which I think is much simpler – it obviates the need for some categories to be “link only” as it will work everywhere the editor already works: The helper text will indicate you can type a topic title as usual, or paste a link into the title field After pasting a link, the editor will pre-build the body and title for you. So if I paste this in.. (the editor spins a bit as it issues a HT…
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### Author:  [@neil](https://meta.discourse.org/u/neil)
#### Post date: [5월 10, 2017, 2:53오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-exactly-is-topic-featured-link/59749/7 "2017-05-10T14:53:20Z")