How do I add a link that I don't want Discourse to expand?

[Tordanik (Tobias Knerr)]

@nukeador

I think internal links are “beautified” if you just drop the url directly, but they are not if linked on a portion of text.

Exactly. And if you want, you can use the URL as the link text as well as the link target.

[https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/could-we-have-a-emoji-thumps-up-as-reaction/708/11](https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/could-we-have-a-emoji-thumps-up-as-reaction/708/11)

produces:

https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/could-we-have-a-emoji-thumps-up-as-reaction/708/11

Not as short as the angle brackets mentioned by @jleedev, but more intuitive to me because it follows the usual syntax for markdown links. (Works with the “Link” button in the graphical user interface as well.)