Automatic EMBED tags

[Mr Person]

At some point in the last few/several weeks, there was a change to what happens when you try to post the https address of a thread. Before it'd take up a little space, but now it displays a ton. When I look at the BB code, it appears the site is now throwing EMBED tags around the https link. If I delete them and hit "save", the site adds them right in.

Like so:

Thread 'NYC shooting at heavily secured office building raises questions about what more can be done. -CNN'

Jul 31, 2025

https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/31/us/security-nyc-shooting

“I don’t know how you get more secure than that,” New York Gov. Kathy Hochul said of the building, noting in particular the presence of a uniformed NYPD officer. “How you stop someone who walks in intent on murdering the first person they encounter, who is a police officer trying to stop them, that’s almost impossible. So people blaming the security system are looking at the wrong culprit here.”

Guess instead of banning AR 15s, NY just wants to offer thoughts and prayers...

Assholes.

• Metric Mouse
• Replies: 12
• Forum: Breaking News

The only way around it seems to be putting quotations marks around the link, like so:

"https://debatepolitics.com/threads/...tions-about-what-more-can-be-done-cnn.574514/"

 

[Bullseye]

At some point in the last few/several weeks, there was a change to what happens when you try to post the https address of a thread. Before it'd take up a little space, but now it displays a ton. When I look at the BB code, it appears the site is now throwing EMBED tags around the https link. If I delete them and hit "save", the site adds them right in.

I haven't noticed that - do you have an example?

 

[reflechissez]

At some point in the last few/several weeks, there was a change to what happens when you try to post the https address of a thread. Before it'd take up a little space, but now it displays a ton. When I look at the BB code, it appears the site is now throwing EMBED tags around the https link. If I delete them and hit "save", the site adds them right in.

Like so:

Thread 'NYC shooting at heavily secured office building raises questions about what more can be done. -CNN'

Jul 31, 2025

https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/31/us/security-nyc-shooting

“I don’t know how you get more secure than that,” New York Gov. Kathy Hochul said of the building, noting in particular the presence of a uniformed NYPD officer. “How you stop someone who walks in intent on murdering the first person they encounter, who is a police officer trying to stop them, that’s almost impossible. So people blaming the security system are looking at the wrong culprit here.”

Guess instead of banning AR 15s, NY just wants to offer thoughts and prayers...

Assholes.

• Metric Mouse
• Replies: 12
• Forum: Breaking News

The only way around it seems to be putting quotations marks around the link, like so:

"https://debatepolitics.com/threads/...tions-about-what-more-can-be-done-cnn.574514/"

Thanks for the pro tip. No reason was ever given for the EMBED tags. All they do is discourage posters from linking threads. If I was a conspiracy theorist, I'd surmise that this change is/was targeted toward posters who used to link a lot of threads.

 

[Mr Person]

Thanks for the pro tip. No reason was ever given for the EMBED tags. All they do is discourage posters from linking threads. If I was a conspiracy theorist, I'd surmise that this change is/was targeted toward posters who used to link a lot of threads.

Yeah, it's weird. If I want to link a thread, I don't want to display the first post, especially if it contains graphics of any sort. Guess I'll be putting the links in quotes for now.

 

[Isidore]

It looks like you can put a DP link in [ URL] tags to just get a link...

https://debatepolitics.com/threads/...tions-about-what-more-can-be-done-cnn.574514/