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"Copy Link" is on top-level posts for consistency with answers. On an answer the URL takes you straight to that answer, which isn't what would be in your URL bar. (I think the work on the threade...
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#1: Initial revision
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Monica Cellio
·
2021-06-01T13:16:24Z (over 3 years ago)
"Copy Link" is on top-level posts for consistency with answers. On an answer the URL takes you straight to that answer, which isn't what would be in your URL bar. (I think the work on the threaded-comments branch will add comment links, too -- same idea.) Your proposal works smoothly if where you want to share the link expects Markdown, but would mean that somebody who wants to share it on a platform that expects a raw link (Twitter, Discord, etc) would have to strip it out again, and somebody who wants to use the link in HTML would have to rewrite the markdown as an HTML href (which expects the text and link in the other order). This is why we went with just a raw link -- it's clear what you're getting and it works everywhere. In principle we[^1] could modify "Copy Link" to give you a modal where you can choose the formatting (raw, markdown, HTML), but I don't think we should bake in any specific formatting. I don't know why titles end with a space. That sounds like a bug. Thanks for the report. [^1]: Or somebody who wants to write a userscript or contribute a PR.