Forum feature - comment links

The forums save the 'name' for a comment (you know, when this is at the end of a link > #543538), but every time I want to link someone to a particular comment I have to scrounge through the html source to find the correct link 'name'.

Can we have a "Permalink" refer to the exact comment link placed next to the post date?

i.e. "%Username% ----------------------- (Posted 2 days ago) Permalink Edit"

I second this suggestion. There are times when it would come in very handy.

Yeah it'd be handy.

I spend a worrying amount of time reading the last post in a thread, then scanning the whole thread to find out who it was that they were quoting and replying to.

So; no official comment in this issue?

This would be great. I second it.

I support this cause :>. Plenty of times I've wanted to link specific post in very long threads.

Sounds like a good idea, but I wonder how easy it is to do using the current forum software.

Darkheart

I'm probably wrong here... but isn't this forum a custom job? As in, Mark wrote it himself.

Wouldn't it be better to just switch to one of the popular existing forums out there, and spend his time working on max3d. Just sayin'...

Anyways FWIW, avatars would be a welcome addition too :)

I really like how this forums is now. It is just a pain to link to a concrete post and it seems it would be a relativelly easy thing to add

It can't be too difficult to implement.

There are already such links in at least two places. Each user profile has a list of all posts by that user. These are links to individual posts, not just threads.

The same is true for the list returned by a forum search.

I don't see much use for direct post links myself, thread links have always been good enough for me.

However, now that Obama will be president I'm sure this will change. :)

Other then to quote someone directly, without using a quote block you could just respond directly to the whole post in general, while keeping your post not-so-huge.

For example:
@markcw: Other then to quote someone directly, without using a quote block you could just respond directly to the whole post in general, while keeping your post not-so-huge.

Posting isn't the only benefit, I could link someone directly to a post on another thread that contains the exact code/explanation to a problem.

..The only problem is that I have to get the exact value for the comment/post from the source.

EDIT: We may also need like a 'comment block' to open the link to the comment in the same page - which will only work url's that are on the blitzbasic/blitzmax sites. {a} tags currently take you to a new window.

It's quiet here..

They must be out celebrating.

In New Zealand? Blast.

I'll add it to the to-do list.

Thank you, good sir.

Could probably anchor the link to the (Posted X minutes/hour/days ago) portion of the post.

Just an FYI, this should be a suuper simple change to posts.php; the link gets outputted but with just the name (keep this as it is):

<a name="915932"></a>

All that needs to be changed is the post date to a link.
i.e.
From this:

<font class=tiny>(Posted #HOWLONG ago)</font>

To this:

<font class=tiny><a href="#POSTID">(Posted #HOWLONG ago)</a></font>

EDIT: ^ untested guess.

I see you added it. It seems pretty cool.

Awesome! Thanks (to whomever).