Questions tagged [magic-links]
Abbreviations for common hyperlinks in comments and chat
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Can we get an [ai-policy] magic link?
Now that sites have AI policies, it seems like we would benefit from a magic link, like [ai-policy], linking to the site's respective help page.
I tested this just now, but it didn't work, and it's ...
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Why do magic links work only in comments?
Is there a specific reason why magic links such as [so], [meta.se], etc. do not work in questions and answers, too? Is this by design? They would be handy, especially in the meta sites.
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Is there a magic link to tags from meta sites? [duplicate]
To create a magic link to a tag of a main site, I can use [tag: tagName]. This applies even when I'm in its meta site. Is there a magic link to the tags of the meta site, rather of the main site?
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Textbox placeholder for creating a site-specific close reason includes invalid short links
When a diamond moderator creates a new site-specific close reason, they are presented with a form to specify the various notices that should appear on closed posts. One of those notices, the one ...
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Add magic link for image of code/data/errors
I just read about magic links for the first time from this Meta Stack Exchange post. The accepted answer had a good amount of useful magic links to help articles such as [mcve], [ask], and [answer], ...
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Can we change the link text for Comment Shorthands?
One of my + SO's most-used Comment shorthand is the [edit] link:
[edit]
Link to the edit page for the post the comment is on, i.e. /posts/{id}/edit.
Link text is "edit" (capitalization is ...
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Supported Markdown for Flag Text does not Match Supported Comment Markdown
This answer from 2013 states that:
flags are now rendered using the same "mini-markdown" renderer used for comments.
The help center on comment formatting includes a list of shorthand ...
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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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Provide a magic link to the more detailed tag info page
Currently, as a Sci-Fi moderator, if I want to send a new user to read up on how to use the story-dentification tag in a comment, I have to manually link to https://scifi.stackexchange.com/tags/story-...
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The site magic links should add .SE to their titles
We use magic links to get a text-ready link to the SE sites. For example the magic link
[cryptography.se] provides a link to cryptography.
When we say;
this question better be asked on cryptography
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Provide autocomplete for magic links in the comment editor
There are a ton of magic links which expand in the comments, some of which are main, meta, or community specific, and some which are templatized (on the surface, I'm not sure if they are explicitly ...
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Why do magic links, that work in comments, not work in posts?
DSP.SE
^ is actually
[DSP.SE](dsp.stackexchange.com/)
As a comment, it renders, but it changes text and inserts the URL separately:
What's the deal?
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Magic link capitalization
Since the current Stack Exchange guideline requires capitalization for links, should we also capitalize (I think we should) the result of magic links?
E.g., hence using [edit] will result in Edit ...
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Can we have a more specific anchor text for some of the comment magic-links?
(Also asked 6+ years ago on MSO),
There are a couple of ways to write help-center links with short sentences, like [help/on-topic]. These are useful when writing help comments to new users (for those ...
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Change the text of the [ask] magic link to "How to Ask a Good Question"
I (and I'm sure most of you) often type comments like this:
Blah blah blah... please read [ask] blah blah
..which gets expanded to:
Blah blah blah... please read How to Ask blah blah
This has ...
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