Internal linking of topics and/or posts

[trevor]

If a user links a post using the topic id number with a hashtag such as #420, it should link that topic or for a specific post #420/5 for the 5th post within that topic.
Perhaps for a bonus, it can have a little snippet of the post, the topic user who posted, their avatar, and time ago information on it.

[kinderjaje]

nice idea

[julian]

Just a note, we ended up changing the github-embed syntax from "#1234" to "gh#1234" because people kept making ordered lists with the pound sign:

#1 yadda yadda

#2 something else

And then the embed plugin would pick that up. Just a thought.

[a_5mith]

@julian said:

people kept making ordered lists with the pound sign

£? Do you guys really call it a pound sign? Before twitter it was known as the hash key in the UK.

On topic: I don't know the ID of any of my topics, so I don't know how often it would be used, by the time I've found out the topic ID, I may as well just link to the topic.

[Tanner]

Having a "copy link" button could solve the issue of having to remember forum ID's when it comes to linking threads. I like the idea though, would be quite useful.

[a_5mith]

@Tanner there's one in the favourites dropdown.

I think the only way this could be achieved usefully is to autocomplete based on the title of the topic. Which would then give you the ID.

[julian]

Like this?

Before we can do this, we have to actually implement topic title searching properly

[a_5mith]

@julian We'll wait here.

Yeah, something like that would be sweet, but as you've said, I can see it being blocked by the current state of searching topics etc. Pipe dreams.

[trevor]

@julian said:

Like this?

Before we can do this, we have to actually implement topic title searching properly

Bingo.