Embedly disappears after main post edition

I noticed this. Create a discussion including an Embedly link, so with Froala. Then publish and then edit the main post. Then repost and you get an empty rectangle instead. You must then edit again, delete the link and repost it as if it were a new post.

While this is not a problem in the case of a comment.

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    • interesting.

      in parallel i noticed something else, but not quite the same, but similar in regard to embedded links.

      ~ when i make a post and use the link button on my timeline updates, the link is embedded in the post, sure, yes.

      BUT - if i want to go back and change the link later, I cannot, because the embed code generated by iFramely is NOT a part of the source code for the post, and I cannot say, change a links filename externally and then /edit/change the post with that link in it to update the pointer for the content, instead I have to delete the entire post, and this is a problem because:


      -all comments on that post will go deleted along with it, and this is an issue for overall replication of content in regard to site architecture from a user and administrative perspective of the user, in an unnecessary way.

      -suggest: push the embed code into the source code of the post, instead of calling a seperate script via the link button to trigger the embed, trigger the embed via the text area, so they dont live in two different places and require two different pointers to render a post.  

      -overall for page rendering this will be faster anyway, making the post UUID the parent of the embedded link at time of posting, by actually injecting it into source code as seen by TinyMCE, versus having it live as a seperate db entry thats attached to the parent UUID of the post as an associated child, and referenced in a table call via mySql.

      cc: Andrew Boon 

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