Conversation started Dec 18, 2020 at 18:10.
Martin Sleziak
Martin Sleziak
Dec 18, 2020 18:10
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A: Is linking to comments possible?

Martin SleziakTo get a link to a comment, simply click on the timestamp next to it. (If it is your comment, be careful not to click on "Delete" by mistake.) For example, this is a link to the first comment posted below this answer. It is possible to get link to some specific comment also from other places wher...

Sometimes I want to link to a comment inside another comment, so I strip away as much cruft as possible. Often the copied link includes noredirect=1 or whatever, and that can go away. I've noticed in fact that the slug can go, too: https://meta.mathoverflow.net/questions/4763/is-linking-to-c‌​omments-possible#com‌​ment24200_4764 can be shortened just to https://meta.mathoverflow.net/questions/4763#comment24200_47‌​64. However, this seems to break when there are multiple pages of answers. In that case, what is the minimum I need to keep to link to the correct comment? — LSpice 1 hour ago
@LSpice You can shorten it further by using /q/ or /a/ instead of /questions/. I guess adding the comment to the link to the answer should be reliable - one would expect that it works when the anchor is actually located on the page. So I would expect this one to work: https://mathoverflow.net/a/2431#comment2259_2431. Test: mathoverflow.net/a/2431#comment2259_2431 And using link to the question would work only if this answer gets to the first page in the ordering you're using: https://mathoverflow.net/q/2340#comment2259_2431. Test: mathoverflow.net/q/2340#comment2259_2431 — Martin Sleziak 1 min ago
 
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Martin Sleziak
Martin Sleziak
Dec 23, 2020 10:53
If I have a link to a question, the link to the comment seems to work when I replace the string with the title with anything else: Both https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/357935/hat-duplicates-when-info-is-expanded#comment1196228_357935 meta.stackexchange.com/questions/357935/… and ...
... https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/357935/q#comment1196228_357935 meta.stackexchange.com/questions/357935/q#comment1196228_357935 link to the same comment.
What happens if I first go to an answer and then get a link from a timestamp? I get a link like this: https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/357952/show-off-your-hats-2020-edition/357960#comment1195804_357960 meta.stackexchange.com/questions/357952/…
When I change the title part of URL: https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/357952/qa/357960#comment1195804_357960 meta.stackexchange.com/questions/357952/qa/… Clicking on this link leads me to an answer rather to the comment.
Maybe this might cause problems when the title of the question was changed - the links created before that might no longer work.
Let us try this: https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/357653/is-there-a-site-for-greek-language#comment1194927_357654 meta.stackexchange.com/questions/357653/…
The original title was: Is there a site for Greek language exchange? meta.stackexchange.com/posts/357653/revisions
If I change the URL to the original title, it still works: https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/357653/is-there-a-site-for-greek-language-exchange#comment1194927_357654 meta.stackexchange.com/questions/357653/…
Now let us try the "answer+comment" link.
This is the link I get from the timestamp: https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/357653/is-there-a-site-for-greek-language/357654#comment1194927_357654 meta.stackexchange.com/questions/357653/…
If I add '-exchange' to the URL, the link goes to the answer. https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/357653/is-there-a-site-for-greek-language-exchange/357654#comment1194927_357654 meta.stackexchange.com/questions/357653/…
 
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user21820
user21820
Dec 23, 2020 15:36
@MartinSleziak: I recall there was a special URL to query the list of all recent visitors to a chat-room, but am unable to find it. Do you know what it is?
Martin Sleziak
Martin Sleziak
Dec 23, 2020 15:52
@user21820 chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/pingable/19138 - just switch the number of the room.
The well I understand it, it is pingable users = recent visitors who posted at least one message in the room.
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A: List of unlinked pages on Stack Exchange sites

PopsGlobal pages Site list /topbar/site-switcher/site-list, e.g. stackoverflow.com/topbar/site-switcher/site-list can be accessed from any site, with identical contents HTML format Hot questions for mobile http://stackexchange.com/hot-questions-for-mobile JSON format (need to parse it manually...

Although strictly speaking, the answer tho the question asked would be: "Yes, I do."
There are some interesting links in that post. For example, I have completely forgotten about this: Tag future report.
user21820
user21820
Dec 23, 2020 16:47
@MartinSleziak Oops. Thanks for not just replying to my question! =)
The reason I'm asking this is that it might be a convenient way to convert that data into a ping-series via a GM script.
Martin Sleziak
Martin Sleziak
Dec 23, 2020 17:02
If others are curious about the context, see here: chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/20352/2020/12/23
 
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Martin Sleziak
Martin Sleziak
Dec 25, 2020 20:38
Is there a way of linking to comments, which would be reliable even for a comment under an answer which is not necessarily on the first page of answers ... Yes, for example: https://stackoverflow.com/posts/comments/2221 ... I cheated to get that comment link — rene 25 mins ago
Let us try a MO post with many answers as a test. So this link https://mathoverflow.net/posts/comments/2259 indeed goes to a comment: mathoverflow.net/posts/comments/2259
And the comment is on the second page when the answers are sorted by score.
What happens if I post such a link in a chat message? Will it be oneboxed?
I would think of Completeness or Compactness of first order logic as a more reasonable answer. Incompleteness is interesting, but it feels more like a side branch of the theorem tree than the main trunk (whatever that means). — Richard Dore Oct 25 '09 at 6:40
Yes, it even gets oneboxed.
 
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