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Q&A Improving the "copy link" button

I'd like to have the "copy link" button below questions improved so that it gives something more useful. Currently when clicking on it, you just get a raw URL like: https://unicorns.codidact.com/p...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by Lundin‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by Monica Cellio‭

#1: Initial revision by user avatar Lundin‭ · 2021-06-01T13:00:03Z (almost 3 years ago)
Improving the "copy link" button 
I'd like to have the "copy link" button below questions improved so that it gives something more useful. Currently when clicking on it, you just get a raw URL like:

    https://unicorns.codidact.com/posts/123456

That's not really meaningful, I could as well just copy the URL from my browser. So I'm not really sure what the button was meant for, easier copy/paste when browsing from a phone or something?

Instead of the above I'd like to get a formatted link with the question title in the following form:

    [What kind of kibble should I get for my unicorn?](https://unicorns.codidact.com/posts/123456)

Which I can then paste and get this: [What kind of kibble should I get for my unicorn?](https://unicorns.codidact.com/posts/123456)  
Rather than this:  https://unicorns.codidact.com/posts/123456

Because currently if I want to share a Codidact link either here or Someplace Else, I have to do the following cumbersome ritual, which is annoying:

- Copy the URL.
- Paste it inside parenthesis: `(https://unicorns.codidact.com/posts/123456)`
- Manually add brackets: `[](https://unicorns.codidact.com/posts/123456)`.
- Manually copy paste the question title: `[What kind of kibble should I get for my unicorn? ](https://unicorns.codidact.com/posts/123456)`
- Find out that the link I just wrote is a mess because all Codidact titles end with a space.
- Manually remove the space: `[What kind of kibble should I get for my unicorn?](https://unicorns.codidact.com/posts/123456)`