diff --git a/files/helpers/regex.py b/files/helpers/regex.py
index ff94f92ca..45e949e73 100644
--- a/files/helpers/regex.py
+++ b/files/helpers/regex.py
@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ yt_id_regex = re.compile('[a-z0-9-_]{5,20}', flags=re.I|re.A)
 
 image_regex = re.compile("(^|\s)(https:\/\/[\w\-.#&/=\?@%;+,:]{5,250}(\.png|\.jpg|\.jpeg|\.gif|\.webp)(\?[\w\-.#&/=\?@%;+,:]*)?)($|\s)", flags=re.I|re.A)
 
-link_fix_regex = re.compile("(?!.*(http|\/))(.*\[[^\]]+\]\()([^)]+\))", flags=re.A)
+link_fix_regex = re.compile("(\[.*?\]\()(?!http|/)(.*?\))", flags=re.A)
 
 css_regex = re.compile('https?:\/\/[\w:~,()\-.#&\/=?@%;+]*', flags=re.I|re.A)
 
diff --git a/files/helpers/sanitize.py b/files/helpers/sanitize.py
index a9cff03c0..f524897eb 100644
--- a/files/helpers/sanitize.py
+++ b/files/helpers/sanitize.py
@@ -182,7 +182,7 @@ def sanitize(sanitized, edit=False):
 
 	sanitized = image_check_regex.sub(r'\1', sanitized)
 
-	sanitized = link_fix_regex.sub(r'\2https://\3', sanitized)
+	sanitized = link_fix_regex.sub(r'\1https://\2', sanitized)
 
 	sanitized = markdown(sanitized)