Excerpts from Eli Schwartz's message of October 21, 2018 1:20: > On 10/20/18 9:05 AM, Johannes Löthberg wrote: >> Excerpts from Vladimir Panteleev's message of October 16, 2018 2:26: >>> As of today, there is no easy way to obtain a link to a specific >>> comment on a package page. >>> >>> Many implementations of forums and comment systems today seem to >>> follow a convention where a comment's timestamp is an unobtrusive link >>> to the comment itself. Some examples are: >>> >>> - phpBB (e.g. bbs.archlinux.org) >> >> (Our BBS is FluxBB, not phpBB.) >> >>> - GitHub >>> - Disqus >>> - Discourse >>> >>> This patch adopts this convention as well, by making the comment >>> timestamp an unobtrusive link to the comment itself. >>> >> >> Most of what makes those URLs useful is that they link to the actual >> post though, while this is just an anchor to the page you're currently >> on, which means that as soon as it ends up at the next page, the URL is >> broken, so I'm not sure how useful this is in practice? > > Admittedly, my usual use case is with ?PP=250. Not too long ago, I > simply defaulted to using the "show all" link. > > I guess there is a difference between forum posts, which start on the > first page and add new posts to a new page, vs. the AUR which shows the > newest comments first. Is there any way to make truly stable links like > that? >
Same way that phpBB and FluxBB does it, you link to a comment-specific URL, not an anchor on the destination page. Something like /comment/<comment_id> -> look up which package the comment is on -> count how many visible comments are before it for that package -> divide by per-page value -> redirect to that page with the anchor. -- Sincerely, Johannes Löthberg
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