Replacing links content in the frontend was the very first way to "beautify" the links in comments. Now that the TextFormatter configuration (#4) is done properly, this feature is only used to "retrofit" the comments posted before the installation of the extension.
It has a certain number of issues as @rob006 pointed out:
Performance. Even server-side parsing is sub-optimal, since it queries discussion one by one, so 100 links = 100 extra queries. But that is acceptable, it should not happen that often. The same problem on JS level is way worse, but I can live with that too. But the fact that there is a visible delay between loading the original link and replacing it with the discussion title is too much - it shifts post content and it looks really ugly.
This feature will be completely obsolete once #34 is done. But for now, a simple fix is to add an option in the admin panel to disable it.
Replacing links content in the frontend was the very first way to "beautify" the links in comments. Now that the TextFormatter configuration (#4) is done properly, this feature is only used to "retrofit" the comments posted before the installation of the extension.
It has a certain number of issues as @rob006 pointed out:
This feature will be completely obsolete once #34 is done. But for now, a simple fix is to add an option in the admin panel to disable it.