No sorry, no way to go back to the old look. One thing to remember is that it will only embed if the link is by itself on its own line. Or like Orchamut mentioned, you can make them into a link.
Important New Forum Update - Feb 2025 changes
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Orchamut
The Destroyer
I've been testing it and I found that you can also put embedded threads inside of a spoiler if you want to save space,
Thank you to all for your patience as we underwent some maintenance here at the forums - below are some new changes that you may notice as you meander around.
The character limit for a new profile post or comment is now 1,000 (up from 420). Hooray! This has been an often requested change, and we are so happy to be able to do this for you now.
Thanks to @CerealSunny all 8 town slimes have joined the forums last week. You can find them in the Smilies while composing...
It also looks pretty nice in my opinion.
Thank you to all for your patience as we underwent some maintenance here at the forums - below are some new changes that you may notice as you meander around.
NEW PROFILE CHARACTER LIMITThe character limit for a new profile post or comment is now 1,000 (up from 420). Hooray! This has been an often requested change, and we are so happy to be able to do this for you now.
NEW TOWN SLIME EMOTESThanks to @CerealSunny all 8 town slimes have joined the forums last week. You can find them in the Smilies while composing...
Zogert Gaming
CelebrationMK10
Do you have a solid data connection? You only seem to have one bar.
Zogert Gaming
CelebrationMK10
I was connected to WiFi, not using cell service
This happens sometimes no matter many bars I have and only started recently and my internet hasn’t changed or anything and I’ve always had poor service in my area
It could be still something on my end but if it’s not connection I’m not sure what it could be
Next time it happens and I take more screenshots I’ll post them or edit them into this message
Mecha_
Golem
That's just how TCF loads things. If you lose connection or stop loading a page you'll get that default image thing.
Not sure, they may be, but as they are now they look okay to me.
I can't say that I've noticed, even after having used Underground for the past several years. I'll check to see if I have any screenshots and compare.
Honestly I don't know how I missed that.
Good catch.
TWillyH
CelebrationMK10
I audibly laughed at this image
also I'm so glad the search system allows 3 characters now, it seemed like such a dumb limit.
Mille Marteaux
Empress of Light
So I just ran into the 1,000 character profile post limit off of this post specifically:
After breaking the message up into two posts to debug it, the automatic conversion of thread links into a clickable link with the thread titles made it go over the limit:
i know there'd be a lot of chicanery involved with disabling the feature to convert links on profile posts, but would it be possible for it to get disabled if it would make a message go over the 1000 character limit? I know you can manually set text yourself or break the message up no problem but I can see it causing some confusion for less forum-savvy users.
After breaking the message up into two posts to debug it, the automatic conversion of thread links into a clickable link with the thread titles made it go over the limit:
i know there'd be a lot of chicanery involved with disabling the feature to convert links on profile posts, but would it be possible for it to get disabled if it would make a message go over the 1000 character limit? I know you can manually set text yourself or break the message up no problem but I can see it causing some confusion for less forum-savvy users.
RainbowPotato 🌳🪓
Official Terrarian
I have an idea… probably dumb, but I will still share.
What if there was a thingi at the bottom that would let you look up things in a thread to see if its been said already?
What if there was a thingi at the bottom that would let you look up things in a thread to see if its been said already?
Enniu (Real)
Terrarian
️ ;; 
he’s real now!!!! My son!!
The Search bar at the top can do that - just change the search limiter from 'Everywhere' to 'This thread'
@Mille Marteaux , we can't change that or make it an option for people. This is the way Xenforo works now. The embed thing only happens if the URL is on a line by itself, so you can just not do that - by adding a word/character to the line, by using an unordered list, or using the Insert Link (Ctrl-K) to substitute a word/phrase to display for the URL
RainbowPotato 🌳🪓
Official Terrarian
Thank you for informing me : )
Mille Marteaux
Empress of Light
This doesn't seem to be the case from my own testing as the auto-embed happened while they weren't on a line by themselves. The same post's raw text without word wrap enabled:
Rich (BB code):
yeah, i dislike the decline of forums as a medium as well. the discord-ification of the internet has been a frustrating descent into madness and it leads to information scarcity.
discord tried doing a forums feature so servers could be front-facing and indexable but it never really went anywhere.
a quick rundown of what happened with social groups can be found with these posts: https://forums.terraria.org/index.php?threads/what-if-there-was-%E2%80%9Cclubs%E2%80%9D-or-something-for-tcf-users-to-join.140956/#post-3246005 | https://forums.terraria.org/index.php?threads/what-if-there-was-%E2%80%9Cclubs%E2%80%9D-or-something-for-tcf-users-to-join.140956/#post-3246295
the thread about the change to private messages/conversations can be found here as well: https://forums.terraria.org/index.php?threads/announcement-regarding-changes-to-conversations-private-messages.133894/The same post, embedded directly into the post:
yeah, i dislike the decline of forums as a medium as well. the discord-ification of the internet has been a frustrating descent into madness and it leads to information scarcity.
discord tried doing a forums feature so servers could be front-facing and indexable but it never really went anywhere.
a quick rundown of what happened with social groups can be found with these posts: TCF Suggestion - What if there was “clubs” or something for tcf users to join? | TCF Suggestion - What if there was “clubs” or something for tcf users to join?
the thread about the change to private messages/conversations can be found here as well: Official - Announcement regarding changes to conversations (private messages)
And this is how the BBcode of that section looks before I edit anything:
It seems that it just auto-fills the embed now regardless? However, since it can't be changed, I suppose the best way to get around it right now would just be manually assigning text to the link via the URL BBcode.. or just not posting three links in one profile post to begin with. At least this discussion is helpful reference material.
