If you're sharing multiple links in one message on Slack, it can get pretty messy and messy. Slack gives you several ways to remove those links and make it easier to follow what's happening in your channels.
Manually removing link previews after you've published your message is an easy task. Just click on the gray X In the corner of the preview. A pop-up will appear asking you to confirm if you are sure you want to remove the link attachment. Click Yes Delete .
If you're an admin of a Slack group, you can turn on link previews for certain domains. You can only do this after a link has already been shared.
Go to the shared link in Slack and click the gray X in the corner of the preview, and in the pop-up message, check Disable future attachments from this website? And from the dropdown select All links from [domain name] .
If you want to remove Slack just for yourself, you can disable link previews globally in Slack with a setting. Go to Preferences> Messages and Media and scroll down to Online media and links . Make sure that Show images and files from linked websites and Show text previews of linked websites both are off.
You can also use text formatting to remove link previews. When pasting the link in use block quotes. When pasting the link into your Slack message, put it on a separate line and pre-cut it with a single arrow bracket (> ). It would look like this when you write it:
> http://makeuseof.comAnd it would look like this once published:
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