The links used in each post number, given as "#dd" in the upper right limit of a post, are not always relative.

For example, a recent thread I have made can be seen in

hXXps://www. linuxquestions. org/questions/linux-general-1/how-to-write-this-html-form-in-the-address-bar-4175613799/

or in

hXXps://www. linuxquestions. org/questions/showthread.php?p=5758831

The longer URL has the thread title written, ok. But if I can make a link, I will use the second URL.

In my post #7 there, it does not matter if you're seeing with the longer or the shorter URL, you will always get links with the longer URLs. The bad side-effect of this fact is that if you open the thread with the shorter link and click on any "#dd" link, your browser will reload the page already there, wasting server resources.

To fix that, I would choose all "#dd" to be made with "href='#postNumber' ", so browsers will always use local links.

This is important because I want to be able to copy the shorter links from a page, and right now is too hard to get them (manually building).

I prefer
"left click + address bar click + (CTRL+C) + (ALT+TAB) + (CTRL+V)"
much more than
"right click + find the right menu option to copy the link URL + anything"
.

I think many people reading these fora will prefer the same as I do.

To copy the URL to a post using only the mouse it not made too hard, if what I suggest is used. It is just:

"left click + address bar right click + menu option click + ..."

or

"left click + address bar left click + (CTRL+C) + ..."

p.s.: another problem I found by making this thread is that I really want want to make links with the shorter URL versions, but when I used

hXXps://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?p=5758831#post5758776

inside an URL tag, it is changed to the longer URL in the thread previews and in the created threads. That is sad. ):

The #postnumber links should always link to an anchored #postid URL. I'm not able to reproduce them doing otherwise anywhere on the site and we should never link to URLs in the second format (and haven't in a very long time).

--jeremy

You cannot reproduce it... strange... well, to find the shorter link I used a thread I created about something else. Playing a bit, I found out how. Shorter links are found by doing:

1. Receive an email notice for any new post in a thread you follow.

This message will have a link similar to:

LQ /questions/lq-suggestions-and-feedback-7/request-will-be-made-for-anchors-that-should-be-relative-to-current-page-4175613810-new/

2. Open that link.

For the link above, I was redirected to this address:

LQ /questions/showthread.php?p=5758938#post5758938

In that page, all the "#dd" links are *not* relative, and will cost another server request.

Further, I suggested the address in those anchors are totally shorter, without the actual page address in them. Is this idea clear?

I want

instead of

Thanks for the feedback.

1) The -new links are indeed treated a bit differently, currently.
2) We have on plan to use relative URI in this case, as it would break copy/paste and has no real advantage.

--jeremy

Ok. Copy and paste is important, but please change "new" links so they redirect to the longer URLs. To copy and paste post links is something I do fairly often too.

I prefer to do

left click + (CTRL+L) + (CTRL+C) + ....

or

"fake left click" the link using the keyboard + (CTRL+L) + (CTRL+C) + ....

instead of

right click + click the menu option to copy link location + ...

Clicking the right menu option is harder and slower, IMO. But it currently makes the page reload... frustrating because it is there, with all I need.

It's not a change we plan on making at this time. I'll put it on the backlog currently holding on the pending code update.

--jeremy

Ok. That is fair enough.

The onsubmit for editing posts will lead to old URLs tpp. For my previous post, it led to:

hXXps://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?p=5759119#post5759119

I knew that I have seen them a lot more than the times I clicked on or copied URLs received in emails...

Yet another way to use the (old?) shorter addresses is to visit the threads received in "Zero Replay Threads" messages. All of the are similar to:

LQ /questions/showthread.php?threadid=4175613946