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Do you use comment permalinks? Do you like how they work? (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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I sometimes open comment permalinks when going through my inbox on the official web UI. I wasn't completely satisfied with how they work so I wanted to rethink permalinks.

Here's what I ended up with for now: https://lemminator.netlify.app/c/lemmyapps/post/3425509/comment/2569266

Lemmy.world's officially supported web UIs:

Some design decisions I made (for better or worse):

  • You can open a permalink by clicking a comment's timestamp. This minimizes UI clutter but trades off discoverability.
  • The permalink page shows the linked comment near the top, skipping all post information except for its title
  • The comment you link to is the one you'll see at the top (not the parent comment)
  • Context is available behind a button

Are permalinks something you use at all? Do you have any opinions on how they should work?

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

My main issue with Lemmy permalinks is that they're instance-specific, so to load a comment link on my instance I need to search for it. There needs to be something like ! for communities. Same for post links.

Another issue is that if a commentisn'tf found (deleted, bad link), that isn't handled very gracefully I think. (Don't quite remember how atm.)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Interesting, I hadn't considered that before.

Suppose I modified Lemminator's search bar so you could paste a link like https://lemmy.ml/comment/1234 or https://lemmy.ml/post/5678 in it and press Enter to navigate to the relevant comment/post within the web UI. I could automatically infer that these are permalinks from other instances. Would that help at all?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I guess? But the same thing works with Lemmy already, you can search for an url. I don't really know what needs to be done to have instance-agnostic permalinks...

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