diff --git a/src/embeds.rs b/src/embeds.rs
index 9df79e6..7ae7cac 100644
--- a/src/embeds.rs
+++ b/src/embeds.rs
@@ -14,7 +14,6 @@ use matrix_sdk::{
 };
 use regex::Regex;
 use scraper::{Html, Selector};
-use tokio::task::JoinSet;
 
 use std::time::Instant;
 
@@ -121,28 +120,15 @@ pub async fn embed_handler(event: OriginalSyncRoomMessageEvent, room: Room, clie
             return;
         };
 
-        let reqwest_client = reqwest::Client::builder().user_agent("Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/118.0.0.0 Safari/537.36").build().unwrap();
-        // Create and populate the JoinSet with async requests
-        // This allows us to await all the requests at once later
-        let mut requests = JoinSet::new();
         let urls = get_urls_from_message(&text_content.body);
-        for url in urls {
-            requests.spawn(reqwest_client.get(url).send());
-        }
+        let reqwest_client = reqwest::Client::builder().user_agent("Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/118.0.0.0 Safari/537.36").build().unwrap();
 
-        while let Some(req) = requests.join_next().await {
-            match req.unwrap() {
-                Err(e) => warn!(
-                    "Failed to fetch metadata for eventID '{}' and error: '{:?}'",
-                    full_reply_event.event_id, e
-                ),
+        for url in urls {
+            match reqwest_client.get(url).send().await {
+                Err(e) => warn!("Failed to fetch metadata for URL '{}' with error: '{:?}'", &url, e),
                 Ok(req) => {
-                    let url = req.url().clone();
                     match req.text().await {
-                        Err(e) => warn!(
-                            "Failed to parse HTML for URL '{}' in eventID '{}' with error: '{:?}'",
-                            url, full_reply_event.event_id, e
-                        ),
+                        Err(e) => warn!("Failed to parse HTML for URL '{}' with error: '{:?}'", &url, e),
                         Ok(resp) => {
                             // beware, dirty HTML parsing code
                             let metadata = parse_metadata(&resp);
@@ -168,15 +154,9 @@ pub async fn embed_handler(event: OriginalSyncRoomMessageEvent, room: Room, clie
                                 );
 
                                 // Finally send the reply to the room
-                                warn!(
-                                    "Sending embed for eventID '{}' with URL: '{}'",
-                                    full_reply_event.event_id, url
-                                );
+                                warn!("Sending embed for URL: '{}'", &url);
                                 if room.send(bot_reply).await.is_err() {
-                                    warn!(
-                                        "Failed to send embed for eventID '{}' with URL: '{}'",
-                                        full_reply_event.event_id, url
-                                    );
+                                    warn!("Failed to send embed for URL: '{}'", &url);
                                 }
                                 warn!("Ran fn room.send after: '{:#?}'", fn_start.elapsed());
                             // If we didn't get any metadata send a generic "No metadata" response
@@ -187,15 +167,9 @@ pub async fn embed_handler(event: OriginalSyncRoomMessageEvent, room: Room, clie
                                 )
                                 .make_reply_to(&full_reply_event, ForwardThread::Yes, AddMentions::Yes);
                                 // Send the reply to the room
-                                warn!(
-                                    "Sending 'No metadata' embed for eventID '{}' with URL: '{}'",
-                                    full_reply_event.event_id, url
-                                );
+                                warn!("Sending 'No metadata' embed for URL: '{}'", &url);
                                 if room.send(bot_reply).await.is_err() {
-                                    warn!(
-                                        "Failed to send embed for eventID '{}' with URL: '{}'",
-                                        full_reply_event.event_id, url
-                                    );
+                                    warn!("Failed to send embed for URL: '{}'", &url);
                                 }
                                 warn!("Ran fn room.send after: '{:#?}'", fn_start.elapsed());
                             }