Comment permalinks
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Glad Wallaby
This would be useful in posts with many comments. In addition, being able to copy direct links via a comment's timestamp would be useful as well.
Andrew Rasmussen
Merged in a post:
Link directly to comments
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Prime Cephalopod
When you click on the bell icon in the top right to see updates, if there is for example an update that says "your request ... was closed" and you click on it, you are taken to the request, but only the request itself is there, not the full thread. Not even the fact that it was indeed closed is visible in the thread shown. It can then be hard to find the full thread.
Sarah Hum
Hi Roel, I'm not quite sure what you're referring to. Clicking on any notification from the bell icon should bring you to the full thread. Can you share a screenshot of what you mean?
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Judicial Bug
Sarah Hum: I think that what Prime Cephalopod or Glad Wallaby request is what for example Zendesk has explained in the link below
* https://support.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/115002923788-How-can-I-expose-anchor-links-in-an-article-and-community-comments-
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* https://support.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/360004097848-Permalink-on-official-comment
ℹ Something that is important is when two different requests are merged, what happens with the anchor link
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Judicial Bug
Sarah Hum: One thing that is related with this request is another request
* Make post timestamps permalinks
What is missing is one ID for each comment and the link at timestamp reference this anchor link
Example at the print attached
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Coral Bobcat
I'm frankly surprised this is a request, i.e. it's basic functionality that I assume should be present.
Every obvious item on a page should always have a URL.
Look at how GitHub, Trello, Slack, Zulip, etc. do it.
E.g. in the case of GitHub, depending on what's being browsed, you can link to issue, comment, commit, line.
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Scared Reindeer
I second this, I just had a case where I wanted to reference a specific and useful comment on a post.
The post had really 4 pieces of useful feedback that I wanted to reference in _new_ posts.
Andrew Rasmussen
Agreed.