Hi all, what’s the best way to link to a forum topic? I can chop off all numbers at the end, so they seem to be redundant. But then, why does the thing insist on adding them back? Is this use supported?
Thanks, that’s the answer I was looking for. I also did a little test of my own, and it looks like the forum entirely ignores the text bit if there’s a topic number present. I just linked to this thread via Question: What's the best way to link to a forum topic?
(PS: and the forum even fills in the title. If you look on the “raw text” of this post, you see all I put was https://forum.f-droid.org/t/2859/4)
(PPS: After posting I see that’s what @hotlittlewhitedog already posted as “shortest link” – a bit too short as associated with the text “1” so I missed it So mine additionally has the part pointing to the exact post, not just the thread)
Not to forget there is also the ?u=username you can add (it’s automatically added if you click the link symbol below a post) so link-clicks count for your share badges.
What we do at the Fariphone forum to quickly link to a topic that gets linked to often is to set up a unique tag and then you only have to enter #tag-name instead of finding the correct link.
For the person following the link it’s one more click then though.