Feel free to always snoop on my pull requests. :)

Yeah, I think we could and I think that's a good solution for fast response time and fast render of the update! Biggest downsides I see are that it's a little more code and also it could be pretty jarring to subscribers: They see a new update come in and then 2-5 seconds later see an embed replace a link in there and change the height of the update: may feel a little jumpy in a bad way.