diff --git a/pkg/interface/src/logic/lib/useModal.tsx b/pkg/interface/src/logic/lib/useModal.tsx
index 83b30ecc58..e2a10c143f 100644
--- a/pkg/interface/src/logic/lib/useModal.tsx
+++ b/pkg/interface/src/logic/lib/useModal.tsx
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ import React, {
 import { Box } from "@tlon/indigo-react";
 import { useOutsideClick } from "./useOutsideClick";
 import { ModalOverlay } from "~/views/components/ModalOverlay";
+import {Portal} from "~/views/components/Portal";
 
 type ModalFunc = (dismiss: () => void) => JSX.Element;
 interface UseModalProps {
@@ -48,7 +49,8 @@ export function useModal(props: UseModalProps): UseModalResult {
 
   const modal = useMemo(
     () =>
-      !inner ? null : (
+    !inner ? null : (
+      <Portal>
         <ModalOverlay
           ref={innerRef}
           maxWidth="500px"
@@ -65,6 +67,7 @@ export function useModal(props: UseModalProps): UseModalResult {
         >
           {inner}
         </ModalOverlay>
+      </Portal>
       ),
     [inner, dismiss]
   );
diff --git a/pkg/interface/src/views/apps/chat/ChatResource.tsx b/pkg/interface/src/views/apps/chat/ChatResource.tsx
index 34c512f7c6..c75ceb18f8 100644
--- a/pkg/interface/src/views/apps/chat/ChatResource.tsx
+++ b/pkg/interface/src/views/apps/chat/ChatResource.tsx
@@ -111,6 +111,8 @@ export function ChatResource(props: ChatResourceProps) {
         envelopes={[]}
         contacts={contacts}
         association={props.association}
+        associations={props.associations}
+        groups={props.groups}
         group={group}
         ship={owner}
         station={station}
diff --git a/pkg/interface/src/views/apps/chat/components/ChatMessage.tsx b/pkg/interface/src/views/apps/chat/components/ChatMessage.tsx
index e19544d477..4744bab369 100644
--- a/pkg/interface/src/views/apps/chat/components/ChatMessage.tsx
+++ b/pkg/interface/src/views/apps/chat/components/ChatMessage.tsx
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ import {
   useShowNickname,
   useHovering
 } from '~/logic/lib/util';
-import { Group, Association, Contacts, Post } from '~/types';
+import { Group, Association, Contacts, Post, Groups, Associations } from '~/types';
 import TextContent from './content/text';
 import CodeContent from './content/code';
 import RemoteContent from '~/views/components/RemoteContent';
@@ -108,7 +108,9 @@ export default class ChatMessage extends Component<ChatMessageProps> {
       history,
       api,
       highlighted,
-      fontSize
+      fontSize,
+      groups,
+      associations
     } = this.props;
 
     const renderSigil = Boolean(
@@ -145,7 +147,9 @@ export default class ChatMessage extends Component<ChatMessageProps> {
       api,
       scrollWindow,
       highlighted,
-      fontSize
+      fontSize,
+      associations,
+      groups,
     };
 
     const unreadContainerStyle = {
@@ -206,6 +210,8 @@ interface MessageProps {
   style: any;
   measure(element): void;
   scrollWindow: HTMLDivElement;
+  associations: Associations;
+  groups: Groups;
 }
 
 export const MessageWithSigil = (props) => {
@@ -214,6 +220,8 @@ export const MessageWithSigil = (props) => {
     timestamp,
     contacts,
     association,
+    associations,
+    groups,
     group,
     measure,
     api,
@@ -355,6 +363,9 @@ export const MessageWithSigil = (props) => {
               scrollWindow={scrollWindow}
               fontSize={fontSize}
               group={group}
+              api={api}
+              associations={associations}
+              groups={groups}
             />
           ))}
         </ContentBox>
@@ -375,6 +386,9 @@ export const MessageWithoutSigil = ({
   msg,
   measure,
   group,
+  api,
+  associations,
+  groups,
   scrollWindow
 }) => {
   const { hovering, bind } = useHovering();
@@ -409,6 +423,9 @@ export const MessageWithoutSigil = ({
             group={group}
             measure={measure}
             scrollWindow={scrollWindow}
+            groups={groups}
+            associations={associations}
+            api={api}
           />
         ))}
       </ContentBox>
@@ -419,6 +436,9 @@ export const MessageWithoutSigil = ({
 export const MessageContent = ({
   content,
   contacts,
+  api,
+  associations,
+  groups,
   measure,
   scrollWindow,
   fontSize,
@@ -461,7 +481,15 @@ export const MessageContent = ({
       </Box>
     );
   } else if ('text' in content) {
-    return <TextContent fontSize={fontSize} content={content} />;
+    return (
+      <TextContent
+        associations={associations}
+        groups={groups}
+        measure={measure}
+        api={api}
+        fontSize={fontSize}
+        content={content}
+      />);
   } else if ('mention' in content) {
     return (
       <Mention
diff --git a/pkg/interface/src/views/apps/chat/components/ChatWindow.tsx b/pkg/interface/src/views/apps/chat/components/ChatWindow.tsx
index 5514e33142..d10ecf078a 100644
--- a/pkg/interface/src/views/apps/chat/components/ChatWindow.tsx
+++ b/pkg/interface/src/views/apps/chat/components/ChatWindow.tsx
@@ -6,8 +6,8 @@ import bigInt, { BigInteger } from 'big-integer';
 import GlobalApi from "~/logic/api/global";
 import { Patp, Path } from "~/types/noun";
 import { Contacts } from "~/types/contact-update";
-import { Association } from "~/types/metadata-update";
-import { Group } from "~/types/group-update";
+import { Association, Associations } from "~/types/metadata-update";
+import { Group, Groups } from "~/types/group-update";
 import { Envelope, IMessage } from "~/types/chat-update";
 import { Graph } from "~/types";
 
@@ -39,6 +39,8 @@ type ChatWindowProps = RouteComponentProps<{
   station: any;
   api: GlobalApi;
   scrollTo?: number;
+  associations: Associations;
+  groups: Groups;
 }
 
 interface ChatWindowState {
@@ -247,13 +249,15 @@ export default class ChatWindow extends Component<ChatWindowProps, ChatWindowSta
       contacts,
       mailboxSize,
       graph,
-      history
+      history,
+      groups,
+      associations
     } = this.props;
 
     const unreadMarkerRef = this.unreadMarkerRef;
 
 
-    const messageProps = { association, group, contacts, unreadMarkerRef, history, api };
+    const messageProps = { association, group, contacts, unreadMarkerRef, history, api, groups, associations };
 
     const keys = graph.keys().reverse();
     const unreadIndex = graph.keys()[this.props.unreadCount];
diff --git a/pkg/interface/src/views/apps/chat/components/content/text.js b/pkg/interface/src/views/apps/chat/components/content/text.js
index 2fe98c6f85..420b2453d7 100644
--- a/pkg/interface/src/views/apps/chat/components/content/text.js
+++ b/pkg/interface/src/views/apps/chat/components/content/text.js
@@ -1,10 +1,11 @@
-import React, { Component } from 'react';
+import React, { Component, useState, useEffect } from 'react';
 import { Link } from 'react-router-dom';
 import ReactMarkdown from 'react-markdown';
 import RemarkDisableTokenizers from 'remark-disable-tokenizers';
 import RemarkBreaks from 'remark-breaks';
 import urbitOb from 'urbit-ob';
 import { Text } from '@tlon/indigo-react';
+import { GroupLink } from "~/views/components/GroupLink";
 
 const DISABLED_BLOCK_TOKENS = [
   'indentedCode',
@@ -73,35 +74,35 @@ const MessageMarkdown = React.memo(props => (
     plugins={[RemarkBreaks]} />
 ));
 
+export default function TextContent(props) {
+  const content = props.content;
 
-export default class TextContent extends Component {
+  const group = content.text.match(
+    /([~][/])?(~[a-z]{3,6})(-[a-z]{6})?([/])(([a-z0-9-])+([/-])?)+/
+  );
+  const isGroupLink = ((group !== null) // matched possible chatroom
+    && (group[2].length > 2) // possible ship?
+    && (urbitOb.isValidPatp(group[2]) // valid patp?
+    && (group[0] === content.text))) // entire message is room name?
 
-  render() {
-    const { props } = this;
-    const content = props.content;
+  console.log(isGroupLink);
 
-    const group = content.text.match(
-      /([~][/])?(~[a-z]{3,6})(-[a-z]{6})?([/])(([a-z0-9-])+([/-])?)+/
+  if(isGroupLink) { 
+    const resource = `/ship/${content.text}`;
+    return (
+      <GroupLink
+        measure={props.measure}
+        resource={resource}
+        api={props.api}
+        associations={props.associations}
+        groups={props.groups}
+      />
+    );
+  } else {
+    return (
+      <Text mx="2px" flexShrink={0} color='black' fontSize={props.fontSize ? props.fontSize : '14px'} lineHeight="tall" style={{ overflowWrap: 'break-word' }}>
+        <MessageMarkdown source={content.text} />
+      </Text>
     );
-    if ((group !== null) // matched possible chatroom
-      && (group[2].length > 2) // possible ship?
-      && (urbitOb.isValidPatp(group[2]) // valid patp?
-      && (group[0] === content.text))) { // entire message is room name?
-      return (
-        <Text mx="2px" flexShrink={0} fontSize={props.fontSize ? props.fontSize : '14px'} color='black' lineHeight="tall">
-          <Link
-            className="bb b--black b--white-d mono"
-            to={'/~landscape/join/' + group.input}>
-            {content.text}
-          </Link>
-        </Text>
-      );
-    } else {
-      return (
-        <Text mx="2px" flexShrink={0} color='black' fontSize={props.fontSize ? props.fontSize : '14px'} lineHeight="tall" style={{ overflowWrap: 'break-word' }}>
-          <MessageMarkdown source={content.text} />
-        </Text>
-      );
-    }
   }
 }
diff --git a/pkg/interface/src/views/components/GroupLink.tsx b/pkg/interface/src/views/components/GroupLink.tsx
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..d1dd5bf949
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkg/interface/src/views/components/GroupLink.tsx
@@ -0,0 +1,75 @@
+import React, { useEffect, useState, useLayoutEffect } from "react";
+
+import { Box, Text, Row, Button, Action } from "@tlon/indigo-react";
+import GlobalApi from "~/logic/api/global";
+import { Associations, Groups } from "~/types";
+import { MetadataIcon } from "../landscape/components/MetadataIcon";
+import {JoinGroup} from "../landscape/components/JoinGroup";
+import {useModal} from "~/logic/lib/useModal";
+
+export function GroupLink(props: {
+  api: GlobalApi;
+  resource: string;
+  associations: Associations;
+  groups: Groups;
+  measure: () => void;
+}) {
+  const { resource, api, measure } = props;
+  const name = resource.slice(6);
+  const [preview, setPreview] = useState<MetadataUpdatePreview | null>(null);
+
+  const { modal, showModal } = useModal({
+    modal: (
+      <JoinGroup
+        groups={props.groups}
+        associations={props.associations}
+        api={api}
+        autojoin={name}
+      />
+    )
+  });
+
+  const joined = resource in props.associations.groups;
+
+  useEffect(() => {
+    (async () => {
+      setPreview(await api.metadata.preview(resource));
+    })();
+
+    return () => {
+      setPreview(null);
+    };
+  }, [resource]);
+
+  useLayoutEffect(() => {
+    measure();
+  }, [preview]);
+
+  return (
+    <Box>
+      {modal}
+      <Row
+        width="fit-content"
+        flexShrink={1}
+        alignItems="center"
+        border="1"
+        borderColor="lightGray"
+        borderRadius="2"
+        py="2"
+        px="2"
+      >
+        {preview ? (
+          <>
+            <MetadataIcon height="4" width="4"  metadata={preview.metadata} />
+            <Text ml="2" fontWeight="medium">{preview.metadata.title}</Text>
+            <Button disabled={joined} onClick={showModal} ml="4" primary>
+              {joined ? "Joined" : "Join"}
+            </Button>
+          </>
+        ) : (
+          <Text mono>{name}</Text>
+        )}
+      </Row>
+    </Box>
+  );
+}
diff --git a/pkg/interface/src/views/landscape/components/JoinGroup.tsx b/pkg/interface/src/views/landscape/components/JoinGroup.tsx
index 00e5c10d16..9337caa2b3 100644
--- a/pkg/interface/src/views/landscape/components/JoinGroup.tsx
+++ b/pkg/interface/src/views/landscape/components/JoinGroup.tsx
@@ -45,6 +45,7 @@ interface JoinGroupProps {
   groups: Groups;
   associations: Associations;
   api: GlobalApi;
+  autojoin?: string;
 }
 
 function Autojoin(props: { autojoin: string | null }) {