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Multiple permalink links in comments

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I noticed that there are now suddenly two permalink-target links in comments.

From a question page (on a comment posted by another user):

Screenshot showing '🔗 Permalink' and 'link' links on gray background

From a comment thread page (this particular comment happens to be mine):

Screenshot showing '🔗 Copy Link', 'link', 'edit', 'delete' and 'flag' links on gray background

I hovered over the first of the two link links to illustrate that these are separate links, but they actually appear to point at the exact same location.

Surely there should only be one of these shown?

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posted over 2 years ago
2y ago by Monica Cellio‭
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deleted user wrote over 2 years ago
copy link

You meant we should show only Copy Link or, "Permalink"?

deleted user wrote over 2 years ago
copy link

Anyway, PR.. I am thinking to show it better way. When we are viewing from Post page than, the text will be Link. And, it will show Copy Link in thread

Canina‭ wrote over 2 years ago · edited over 2 years ago
copy link

deleted user "Copy Link" to me implies an action, which seems inappropriate here unless the actual intent is to overwrite the user's clipboard contents (which I hope it is not; that's a dangerous thing to do with an unguarded link). "permalink" or just "link" seems a better term. But right now the UI includes two that appear to serve identical purposes (and one is also labelled differently in two places); whichever label one applies, I don't see any value in this two-for-one deal.

deleted user wrote over 2 years ago
copy link

Canina‭ Currently I am thinking to do this. this

Monica Cellio‭ wrote over 2 years ago
copy link

deleted user let's be consistent. Using two different names for the same action is confusing. "Link" (or "permalink") is just a link; you can visit or copy it. "Copy link" is an action, setting the value on the clipboard. Those are two different things. The name and the behavior should match, and in my opinion the name+behavior should be the same whether you're viewing the comments under the post or on the thread page.

Canina‭ wrote over 2 years ago · edited over 2 years ago
copy link

Monica Cellio‭ There is another issue with a "copy link" actual action link that does what it says on the tin. If I misclick, and that causes valuable information that I have on the clipboard to be overwritten, I am not going to be happy about that. If I misclick on "link", about the worst that will happen is that the page reloads. Depending on what I'm doing on that page I might not be too happy about that either, but at least the scope of that error is restricted to that one browser tab only.

deleted user wrote over 2 years ago · edited over 2 years ago
copy link

Monica Cellio‭ I had written a comment. Somehow it have disappeared now. Maybe, I forgot to click on Add Reply. Anyway, I am writing that again. Sorry! I didn't test after writing that code. I thought post page could can function from comments.js So, I thought it should work. But, later I noticed comments.js only works for comment page not for post page. Anyway, ArtOfCode had solved it (as he mentioned) (I forgot some context So, I am finishing it here).