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Offer long links to answers, in addition to just short
Let's say you are looking at some question and you see a good answer, and you want to share it with your friends.
Well, each answer only has short links available. If you want a long link that looks ...
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Enable clicking on [Share] to automatically copy link to clipboard
When the user clicks on the [Share] link under the post (either a question or an answer), a popup window appears with the link automatically highlighted. I propose that the link should be ...
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Old links to answer sort orders became broken after the change to answer sort tabs
I previously posted this as an answer (10k-only) to the announcement Revisiting changes to answer sorting menu: better use of space, moving menu into a dropdown, ascending/descending sort options, ...
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Timeline page should make it easy to go to specific answer [duplicate]
I was looking at the timeline of What can we do to encourage downvoting? on Meta.SO. This is a big question with lots of answers. In the timeline I saw an answer that I was interested in reading ...
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Showing Links to Answers
Is there a trick to showing links to answers? I notice that they all have a distinct id, so it’s 90% in place already. Sometimes it would be helpful link to an answer rather than a question.
I have a ...
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Anchor links for sharing specific answers [duplicate]
I want to be able to share answers using anchor links, such that when the link is visited, the page scrolls to the particular answer instead of showing the top of the page.
A good example is seen ...
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Could we add the ability to link to a specific answer to a question? [duplicate]
Elsewhere in meta I was in a discussion where an answer to a related question was very relevant. But I currently can't point to that answer, other than to say "the answer by author <here - link ...
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Clicking on a link to a comment/answer should reposition the page more intuitively
I would like to suggest improved behavior for hard-linking comments and answers, in order to improve the flow of UX. The intent of the suggestion is to make the linked content visible while avoiding ...
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Direct link to specific answers [duplicate]
Would it be a good idea to have the capability to directly link to a specific answer? Sometimes when answering questions, I would like to link to another questions's answer, but it isn't always the ...
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Links to answers in a comment on the same page should resolve to anchor links
When there is a comment to a question, you can easily get a link to it from its timestamp, and when pressed, it will make the page go to its anchor and highlight it without reloading the page.
But a ...
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Shorter answer links [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Show a short link for Answers too… not just Questions.
On a question, the link button gives me this URL:
http://stackoverflow.com/q/6490844/39321
On the same question,...
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"Shared a link" to an answer [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Are there any ways to share links to answers, the homepage, or tags page that is tracked?
On [judaism.se], post 8472 is a question, and 8473 is one of its answers.
I ...
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Reduce posting of "linking hit-and-runs" answers
For a background of the problem, see this other question.
Feature Proposal
This feature proposal is reduce posting of "linking hit-and-runs" answers.
An answer is a "linking hit-and-run" if links ...
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Small but annoying problem: References to other answers are lost after name changes
There are answers or comments which refer to answers by another user's username without providing a link to them, if the user's name has changed there is no way to know which answer is being referred.
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How can you get the permalink for an answer to a question?
I wanted to link to an answer to a Stack Overflow question, but couldn't find a way to do it. I couldn't get the ID of the answer in order to create the link.
How can you get the permalink for an ...
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