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Have permalink button show a popup instead of redirecting
Currently, when I click the "permalink" button on a post, it just sends me to the permalink URL, which is kind of unintuitive - it took me a couple seconds to realize that the page hadn't just reloaded and the URL had changed.
Could we instead have a popup show up when you click the button, which shows you the permalink URL? (and hopefully has a "copy to clipboard" button as well)
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The Permalink control now allows you to copy a working URL for the post through the usual browser affordance (right-click + "copy URL" on desktop browsers, long-press on touch interfaces). Oddly, it's not the same URL you get if you actually click the control, but at least you can get a working link that way. (This was not always the case. I don't know whether it behaved this way back when you asked this question.)
I agree that some visible response to clicking it would be good, since all the other things below a post are actions and not naked links. But I wanted to at least document what currently works.
Update: "Permalink" has been changed to "copy link", and clicking it copies the link to your clipboard.
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