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Can we have magic links for comments that link to help center of the site we're recommending?
I love using magic links for referring someone to a more appropriate stack.
However, if I'm recommending that someone check out another Stack, often times I want to give them a direct link to their ...
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"Magic Links" displayed text ambiguous in some cases
The help-center "magic links" for comments such as [help/on-topic], [help/dont-ask] and [help/behavior] currently have the ambiguous (and poorly capitalized) display text of "help ...
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"help center" magic link isn't click-friendly
There's a magic link I use all the time: [help/on-topic]. If you didn't know it, when posted in a comment, it renders as help center - which is great!
Except for one thing: from a UX perspective, it'...
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Are magic links broken, or am I using them wrong?
Twice in the past two days, on AU and Math.SE, I've tried to make some comments using Magic links, which I want to come out like this:
As it currently stands, this does not provide an answer to the ...
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Add link to help center in the canned First question comments
When reviewing a user's first question, we can opt to leave a comment, and there is the option of picking 2 canned comments:
Please clarify your specific problem or provide additional details to ...
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Add to help/privileges/comment link explaining why comments need higher reputation than answers
The question “Why do I need 50 reputation to comment?” was raised many times (see duplicates of Why do I need 50 reputation to comment? What can I do instead? ).
It will be useful on Comment ...
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Contents block overlaps document body in help page
Opening comment formatting help page from the comment section leads to a page body overlapped with the contents block.
Steps to reproduce (if using direct link is not good enough):
Click "Add a ...
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Pre-2017 meta links remain broken in 2020
Back in 2017, SE changed their meta URL hierarchy, so their URLs are no longer meta.site.stackexchange.com, but rather site.meta.stackexchange.com. While the Community user did a good job fixing all ...
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Make all help pages work in shorthand links
Currently you can write [help/on-topic] in a comment, which changes to help center, and there's some other similar help short-links (see this).
But not all of them work - [help/someone-answers] doesn'...
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"your post was converted to a comment" has link to "deleted" page
One of my answers has
"your post was converted to a comment; see the help center "
However the link redirects to the page
https://stackoverflow.com/help/deleted-answers "Why and how are some ...
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