[Feature Request]: Community Forum Site Feedback: Introduce Short Links

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#1

User Story:
As a user of the Community Forum, I want to be able to enter a short citation to (for example) an accepted solution in (for example) code comments that have to be constrained to a single line. As it stands, the URL to a topic/post is long because it contains the title in full and so cannot easily be cited where space is at a premium. For example:

The accepted solution here cannot be easily cited as the URL is very long

Acceptance Criteria:

  1. Without changing existing site URLs, that some means is provided to obtain a short URL of a post/topic in-site;
  2. That the short URL visibly preserve the domain and so reputation of the destination (i.e. “libreoffice org”) rather than obfuscate it;
  3. That the length of the short URL be no-longer than about the following example: https://ask.libreoffice.org/t/61992.

Thanks in advance.

#2

Why not use the link icon in the editor (chain links, fourth from left) when composing your replies to include a link with short text of your choice?

So the link you show in your question could be posted as see this solution.

#3

  • I did.
#4

I don’t understand either why this url can’t easily be cited, but FWIW short URLs can already be done using https://ask.libreoffice.org/t/-/NNNN (or replacing - with anything not containing /).

Like this. Or using a OneBox:

#5

Might be they want to be able to copy such shorter URL already without having to edit it, to paste it somewhere else where space is a constraint. Like some “permalink short URL”.

#6

All you needed to say was tha in my example:

that I had almost got the syntax right, but that it needed a dummy replacement for the placeholder “-”. I don’t know where that’s documented. Thanks for the solution, but you didn’t need to accompany it with implied criticism.

#7

You’re welcome. What you call “implied criticism” was genuine lack of clue as to what you wanted to do… seems I wasn’t the only one for whom the question wasn’t clear.

#8

Please, if in your opinion a question is unclear, why argue with the OP rather than move-on and answer a question that you can. Replying back saying “your question isn’t clear” is unlikely to end well. A common way of clarifying is to pose a question; “Do you mean X?, if so, then Y.” Sorry to “defend” my question (and example) – to me they’re clear. I would have been happy to clarify in the absence of implied criticism. Enjoy the rest of your day.

#9

Fwiw, that example https://ask.libreoffice.org/t/61992 works perfectly fine for me, with or without -/

#10

So it does @erAck; it’s what I thought may work and it’s what I thought I tried. Sigh. Oh well. It’s what most people want to do this will surely experiment and try without crying here. Sorry then if it worked all along.

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