diff --git a/webapp/titanembeds/static/js/embed.js b/webapp/titanembeds/static/js/embed.js
index 03d2aad..3ade493 100644
--- a/webapp/titanembeds/static/js/embed.js
+++ b/webapp/titanembeds/static/js/embed.js
@@ -1494,7 +1494,7 @@
         return message;
     }
     
-    function parse_message_markdown(text) {
+    function parse_message_markdown(text, embed=false) {
         var geturl_regex = /(\(.*?)?\b((?:https?|ftp|file):\/\/[-a-z0-9+&@#\/%?=~_()|!:,.;]*[-a-z0-9+&@#\/%=~_()|])/ig;
         var links = text.match(geturl_regex); // temporarily remove urls so markdown won't mark inside of the url
         if (links) {
@@ -1514,6 +1514,9 @@
                 text = text.replace("$LINK"+i+"$", links[i]);
             }
         }
+        if (embed) {
+            text = text.replace(/\[(.*?)\]\((.*?)\)/g, "<a href=\"$2\" target=\"_blank\">$1</a>");
+        }
         return text;
     }
     
@@ -1621,7 +1624,7 @@
         content = content.replaceAll("\\>", ">");
         content = escapeHtml(content);
         content = parse_role_mention(content);
-        content = parse_message_markdown(content);
+        content = parse_message_markdown(content, true);
         content = parse_channels_in_message(content);
         content = parse_emoji_in_message(content);
         content = content.replace(/&lt;https:\/\/(.*?)&gt;/g, "https://$1");