diff --git a/ground/classes/Markdown.php b/ground/classes/Markdown.php
index 2a6798e..767ef9a 100644
--- a/ground/classes/Markdown.php
+++ b/ground/classes/Markdown.php
@@ -115,16 +115,16 @@ class Markdown
 		// \n & \r
 		$string = str_replace(array("\n","\r",' -- '), array(' ', ' ',' – '), $string);
 
+		// URL
+		$pr = '((https{0,1}:\/\/[\da-z\.-]+\.[a-z]{2,6})[\/\w\?=&#%+\.,-]*\/?)';
+		$rep = '';
+		$string = preg_replace($pr, $rep, $string);
+
 		// multi-space
 		$pr = '(\s{2,})';
 		$rep = ' ';
 		$string = preg_replace($pr, $rep, $string);
 
-		// URL
-		$pr = '((https{0,1}:\/\/[\da-z\.-]+\.[a-z]{2,6})[\/\w\?=&#%+\.,-]*\/?)';
-		$rep = '<a href="$0" title="$0" target="_blank">$1</a>';
-		$string = preg_replace($pr, $rep, $string);
-
 		return trim($string);
 	}