I find when I do up a draft of a post in Google Docs, and copy-paste the whole thing to either the EA Forum or LW, the hypertext link formatting remains intact. Sometimes it can mess up the other formatting, though, so it’s not the best idea if you’re using bullet points or other graphical elements in a post. If you could write up posts in Google Docs and copy-paste them to your Medium blog too without having to recreate the links, then you wouldn’t have the problem with recreating links on one or the other site. I don’t have a Medium blog, so I wouldn’t know if it’s possible to copy-paste into it with the links intact.
I find when I do up a draft of a post in Google Docs, and copy-paste the whole thing to either the EA Forum or LW, the hypertext link formatting remains intact. Sometimes it can mess up the other formatting, though, so it’s not the best idea if you’re using bullet points or other graphical elements in a post. If you could write up posts in Google Docs and copy-paste them to your Medium blog too without having to recreate the links, then you wouldn’t have the problem with recreating links on one or the other site. I don’t have a Medium blog, so I wouldn’t know if it’s possible to copy-paste into it with the links intact.
This is the approach I used to get this article on the EA Forum:
Used the “Publish to the web” feature in Google Docs.
Did a copy/paste from Firefox to the EA Forum. (Firefox generated much less messy content than Chrome.)
I manually fixed all the links to remove the https://www.google.com/url redirect junk. (Not strictly necessary, but it annoyed me.)
I edited the HTML heavily to get the one table to show up right.
I made a lot of other manual edits.
It was a pain though.