That confused me originally, but I think it may be intentional. - imabonehead

I hope it is just a temporary regression. Bookmarks with links are what I most frequently share to FriendFeed. - DeWitt Clinton

The backup plan - post to Delicious instead - fails because you can't share add images when sharing via Delicious. Which brings us back to: http://friendfeed.com/dewitt... - DeWitt Clinton

Oh no, it looks like they removed links entirely and even went back and retroactively changed all old posts to append links to the message. - DeWitt Clinton

The url metadata is still there for imported links (edit a delicious post, and you can see the url isn't in the text). But not being able to manually specify the url metadata is a major step backwards IMO. The bookmarklet and the "share" functionality are now a mess, for example images don't know where to link to. In the beginning of the beta release, some FFer said that they were debating bringing it back, but I guess they decided not to. - Daniel Sims

I'm pretty sad about this. It's a step away from where I hoped the product would go. I acknowledge that I am rarely, if ever, representative of popular opinion, so it might be a perfectly good overall decision for FriendFeed, but it will impact how much I personally use it. Sigh. - DeWitt Clinton

On a related matter, showing the URLs directly makes FriendFeed look so much more backwards, considering that URLs aren't necessarily meant to be readable. - Yoo Chung

Yoo, agreed, FF uses leading "http://xyz" string to recognize any url (will not enhance, say, tinyurl.com as some other clients might), yet doesn't do anything about it. I already suggested that, as a start, it ought to replace detected FF-internal ones with uniform "[ff]" hyperlinks, and "[#ff] for such with #anchors, and the outside ones with hyperlinked e.g. "domain/.../last-element-in-path-sans-suffix". - ianf ⌘

DeWitt, it's definitely intentional change, and a good one too! Among other things it means you can now substitute, edit or amend the OP-url after posting, just as you could do that with plaintext urls in comments' bodies. Also very useful for e.g. linking the url to NO-CACHE printable verison of a page, while any picture retains the link to ordinary/ ad-infested one. - ianf ⌘