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Link Beautification

Feature Request

While I realize that giving people the ability to embed HTML can be a security risk, it would be nice to have some method for making links more appealing to look at. Using HTML, we're able to enclose a link in brackets and type text that we want that link to show as. That function alone, without any other HTML, would be exceptionally cool; but even short of that, perhaps when linking a primfeed post, the post could format itself as the title of the post (much like how we can tag people and we can copy/paste SLURL links, something similar for Primfeed links would be extremely cool).

For people who collab and want to link the other artist's post, having links that aren't eyesores like the one below would be cool:

https://www.primfeed.com/profile.resident/posts/a3c79eb0-644c-45dd-8169-17170380b1f1

Having that whole thing show up or even the shortened version such as "https://prmfd.co/p/PxrvKEoo20Pk" are still kinda eye sores. Just a thought to make the posts in Primfeed even prettier!

Posted by Mia Mouse ·
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  • Teal Aurelia changed status to Closed
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    Oct 10, 2025

    Hi Mia, thanks for taking the time to post this feature request.

    We require posts here to have a minimum number of votes to remain active. If you still believe Primfeed should implement your feature, you're welcome to create it again and ask the community to vote for it.

    In the meantime, I'm closing this thread. Please message Luke Rowley if you have any questions.

  • jaragleef Resident

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    Aug 29, 2025

    This opens up a security hole that scammers know well and use often. On the other hand, it can very much help legitimate posters. If we do something like this, I highly recommend:

    1) Rather than HTML style embeds, use markup style embeds [ Name https:// link ], it's much easier for people who haven't learned HTML.

    2) Have such embeds show up a dramatically different color, and have a tool tip showing exactly what the destination link is, so when a scammer does [ https:// marketplace.secondlife. com/p/innocuous-looking-product-link https:// marketplace.scammertown. world/phishing_site.html ] it does NOT look like a "normal" link.

    Links edited to have spaces in them so the example fake links don't work.