Is there a way to disable links transformation in JIRA? Edited

[Dmitry Beloglazov]

In the past if someone pasted an URL to a comment section (or the issue description field) it would be displayed as an URL linking to the corresponding page - http://example.com

But recently Atlassian rolled out a change that makes "pretty links" - instead of showing the original URLs it gets the page title and displays it as the link to the page. So instead of http://example.com it would show something like Example Website. It's great that this "feature" hasn't been applied to this forum otherwise I wouldn't be able to explain it :-)

Same thing started to happen in Trello recently.

While this seems to look cool, I often need to copy the comments or descriptions from JIRA and paste them elsewhere, and with this change all links become just page titles.

Even if I edit the comment, there's no way to view its original text with full URLs, so there's no way to get the original URLs other than copy-pasting each of them separately which is of course not very good.

I would really like to be able to easily copy the original comment/description text with full URLs or even better - have this automatic conversion completely disabled everywhere in JIRA and Trello. How can I do this?

[Olga Videc]

Hello @Dmitry Beloglazov 

Unfortunately not at the moment, this is called "Smart Links" 

Here is a suggestion for the option to disable it

https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRACLOUD-72429 

Similar question lot of people share your problem

https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Jira-Software-questions/Is-there-a-way-to-disable-inline-links-Bug-report-SmartLinks/qaq-p/1673119

What you can do is when adding a comment, add URL as code block 

BR, Olga

[Dmitry Beloglazov]

Thanks.

> https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRACLOUD-72429 

Can't comment there for some reason, it shows a "Communications Breakdown" error.

> What you can do is when adding a comment, add URL as code block 

This doesn't work because I'm not the only one who posts the comment and I wouldn't prefer not to instruct everyone to add URLs in some awkward way.

[Olga Videc]

Hello, 

Can't comment there for some reason, it shows a "Communications Breakdown" error.

You just need to refresh the page, it happens if the comment box is open for too long.

BR, Olga

[Dmitry Beloglazov]

I reopened this page multiple times, same error.

[Olga Videc]

Have you added any URL or code in your comment?

[Dmitry Beloglazov]

No. But probably it doesn't matter much. I see a hundred of angry comments and I hope it's enough for Atlassian to do something about it :-)

[Dmitry Beloglazov]

Looks like I found a bug.

When I opened that URL, I was redirected to this URL: https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRACLOUD-72429%C2%A0?error=login_required&error_description=Login+required&state=65e12ff6-ebec-41dd-b428-528f3b81148b

And there I couldn't comment.

When I removed everything starting from %C2 and reopened the page I could submit the comment.