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Let me do SOMETHING with a comment link to a deleted question
In the iOS app, links in comments to deleted posts are a dead-end. The app can't display deleted content even if I have the privilege to view it, but there's also no way to do anything else with the ...
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Short URL for comments
When posting, users have access to shortened URLs for questions (e.g. http://stackoverflow.com/q/7498413/117870) and also answers (e.g. http://stackoverflow.com/a/27171218/117870). These can be very ...
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Link to the actual comment in my network-wide activity
On this page, under the comments subtab, there's a giant list of comments. However, they only give links like http://stackoverflow.com/questions/####, which open the page the comment is on but don't ...
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Comment link becomes invalid if question title changes
While viewing this answer, I noticed that the link to the comment was broken because the title of the question was changed. So I updated the link. The link to the question should remain valid, even if ...
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Possible duplicate of this
A small PSA, but as a friendly reminder I think it's worth bringing it up.
When you add a comment such as the following:
Possible duplicate of this
It would benefit everyone a tiny bit more if ...
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Missing trailing slash in markup of links in comments and chat
I noticed a bug in the markdown of hyperlinks in comments and chat with a trailing slash. The link will work correctly, but the markup shows the link without the trailing slash.
So if you write ...
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Link / share comment [duplicate]
How can I share / link a comment, just like I can do with question or answer?
If someone puts a new comment to my stuff and I click reminder about this in the list, I'm getting a direct link to that ...
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How to copy links of answers and comments?
I've seen on SE sites where people post a link to some answer or comment, so that when you click on it, you're taken directly to that post and even highlights for a split second. I would like to know ...
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When adding links in comments, can http:// be automatically added if no other protocol is specified?
I'm using FireFox and it never displays the http:// prefix. I had copied and pasted the URL of a webpage, I was going to link to in a comment, and was confused when it didn't work. It turns out when ...
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How do people make link to a comment? [duplicate]
For example, this answer made a link to a comment.
How to do it? There isn't any link in the comment (except for vote up, and flag a comment).
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Markdown links without a domain name should be valid also in comments
Currently, only links that actually contain a domain name are valid in Markdown. For example, this makes a valid Markdown link:
[this](http://www.example.com/that)
That works nicely for off-site ...
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(almost) Invisible links in comments [duplicate]
I just commented on an off-topic post on
Code Review with 3 different links. Two of them were magic links. I referred a User to [so], mentioning (and linking) the guidelines (on-topic help). And when ...
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Why is the title of a target questions in comments only shown in the title hover?
If I post a link to a Question in a comment, why is it only shown in the Title and not as visible link?
For example in Questions If I post this URL:
Storing Objects in HTML5 localStorage
It is ...
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Can't link to election comments? [duplicate]
I wanted to put a link to one of the comments on this election page into chat. But it seems that isn't supported, for some reason. Normally you can just click the "x hours ago" link on a comment, and ...
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Scroll to post when linked to a comment
When I get a notification about a comment and I click on that link then I get redirected to the comment and it is highlighted. That is generally great.
But almost every time I need the context of the ...
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