On Sunday, 27 January 2013 at 20:25:30 UTC, Chad J wrote:
I just searched for something in the property discussion. I
wanted to link a friend to one of deadalnix's posts, so I put
"I'm so happy to read this !!!!" into the search box and
punched it.
What it brought up was one of David Nadlinger's posts. I want
to say nothing bad about David Nadlinger's fine post; it just
wasn't what I was searching for. Now, deadalnix's post was on
the page, so it wasn't a complete miss, but I expected it to be
the first one and it wasn't. If I sent that link to my friend
then he would probably read the wrong part.
Here is what comes up for me as the second result (first result
is your post):
http://forum.dlang.org/post/[email protected]
This is the canonical link for deadalnix's post. If your view
mode is set to "basic" (default setting), it will redirect to
this address:
http://forum.dlang.org/thread/[email protected]?page=3#post-uagknsecziepoedcabvr:40forum.dlang.org
Note that the address contains the ID of the thread, the page
number within the thread, and an anchor (hash fragment) which
indicates the exact post on the page.
I conclude that either of the following must be true:
1. You are seeing a search result different from what I'm seeing;
2. For some reason, your web browser is ignoring anchors in URLs
(when handling redirects, or in general).
There's more frustration in this though: partially because the
result was unthreaded. It's unthreaded, so I can't just click
on the post I /actually/ want and get a new URL in my browser
that I can copy-pasta.
I don't see what prevents you from doing exactly the above,
unless your web browser is removing the anchor part of the URL.
The link would be longer than necessary, and would force the
threaded-view mode, but it would still link to the respective
post.
When I click on "View this thread in threaded view mode" it
DOES NOT go to deadalnix's post as my search initially
intended: it still selects David's post.
The URL hash fragment, which contains the ID of the specific post
that got you on that thread page, is not sent to the server.
However, you'd only see that notice if you either scrolled up, or
your web browser is ignoring anchors in redirects. The notice
applies to links without an anchor.
Now I have to scan through all of the 7625342 subtopics in the
property discussion /by hand/ and find the one I'm interested
in.
Alternatively, you could right-click the post title to obtain a
canonical link to the post, which should work with all view modes
(unless you are using some kind of web browser which ignores
anchors in redirects).
It is documented here:
http://forum.dlang.org/help#canonical
(If you are using a web browser which does not understand anchors
in links, please scroll down to the section "Canonical links".)
Please fix?
Specific suggestions on improving the software are welcome.
