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Referring to specific comments
Posted by eliason in
25 Apr 2011 — 6:31am
25 Apr 2011 — 6:31am
Not too long ago Typophile added the useful ability to link to specific comments within threads. Clicking on the timestamp of any comment will produce the link.
I have noticed that this doesn't seem to work when the comment to be linked appears on a page beyond the first in a multi-page thread. The link doesn't insert the required "page=n&" into the address, so following the link just goes to the top of the first page of the thread.
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25 Apr 2011 — 9:53am
You can (manually) add this bit to the URL, right after the node number, before the #:
?from=0&comments_per_page=5000This is just a workaround, not a solution to the bug.
25 Apr 2011 — 11:23am
Or you can add manually the appropriate page number, as in http://www.typophile.com/node/81129?page=1#comment-461794 ; notice that it is "page=1" and it is page 2 (it is always one less). The timestamp should indeed contain the page number (I added a blank before the semicolon for the link to work).
25 Apr 2011 — 11:27am
Yes, I successfully added the page number manually as Michel suggests when I tried it, but seeing Florian's workaround I wonder if Michel's would break based on having a different setting for comments per page. Is that a user-adjustable setting, by the way?
25 Apr 2011 — 12:59pm
Is that a user-adjustable setting?
No, at the moment not. But it has been adjusted globally in the past
Also, there is the (unlikely) possibility that you want to link to comment no. n+1 (n = maximum number of comments per page), and later on, an older comment gets deleted, making the one in question the n-th.
25 Apr 2011 — 1:29pm
I just counted (in fact, I wrote a script to count) the number of comments for each page of http://www.typophile.com/node/123 and I get 90 comments per page for page 1 to 7, and then less than 90 comments on page 8. What does the number 5000 then represent in
comments_per_page=5000?25 Apr 2011 — 1:35pm
This number overrides the default maximum number of comments per page (yes, 90 – at the moment) . You can also enter a different value. But with a value as large as 5000, you practically request a thread with all its comments, as a single page.
25 Apr 2011 — 1:48pm
And with http://www.typophile.com/node/123?from=0&comments_per_page=5000 I indeed get a single page! Thanks.
25 Apr 2011 — 3:04pm
And I think the clean solution is a link like this:
http://www.typophile.com/node/123?page=5&from=0&comments_per_page=90#com...
that specifies the page number but also the current number of comments per page, namely 90. You are then linked to the right page (and not to a single page thread) and even if the number of comments per page ever changes, the link will still be valid.