Stop links from being created as bubbles in the new editor

Question

I don't know what else to call that, but when I create links in the new editor, often they appears in rectangular boxes (bubbles) with a little blue icon on the left, as shown below:

Then when I'm using the "Blog Posts" macro, they don't appear as bubbles but the full URLs, and I can't tell what the link goes to:

I want them to be the link text which is inside the bubbles.  How do I disable the bubble behavior?

HollyV · Answer

Product Manager, here. Can attest - this is a terrible, no-good, junk feature. Come on Atlassian - do better.

Tom Whitmore_o9z4hm · Answer

Bubble Links are a problem for me as well. They just seem a pointless anti-feature. They decrease readability, don't get rendered properly (many seconds FOUC) and make the whole experience worse.

* I have my own Wiki space. Where can I turn this off for the entire space?
* Alternately, where can I turn the new editor off for the entire space?

I'm absolutely disappointed with Confluence Cloud, compared with on-prem Confluence 2 or 3 years ago. Atlassian had a pretty good product but now presumably under the influence of "Product Managers" it's just being pointlessly degraded.

Rory Apperson · Answer

Well this is disappointing.  I'm not sure anyone wants bubble links, and as I showed in the post they don't appear in the blog posts macro -- the full URL does, which is not helpful.  Furthermore, having to type the text you want instead of the bubble every time is annoying.