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Actually what I want to do there is utilise the same stuff that does YouTube video embedding.
I want links to auto-convert into some useful preview or embedding of what's at the other end of the links.
From a technical perspective... imagine if the only thing that the user did was to put links in posts and we would follow them, read the mime-type of the end item in the HTTP chain, and if image embed, otherwise if HTML look for open-graph or Twitter card and auto-embed that way.
And... if someone did CTRL+V and pasted what was obviously an image... upload and auto-attach.
I want posting and editing, attaching and embedding... to be so incredibly easy that even thinking of anything else is hard.