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HN Feature Request: Allow linking to comments
There are a lot of gems and insights buried in HN comments. Would be awesome if we could link directly to them, no?
- shortformblog 6y agoYou can. Hit the "XX hours ago" next to the username on a comment.
- floatingatoll 6y agoWould you like to know more? Stories and comments are both ?item=AAA links. I believe stories are just considered 'top-level comments' internally. This comment is here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23160530 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23160530 If you want to link to one story/comment but scroll the browser window to another comment, you can use ?item=AAA#BBB, such as this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23160367#23160530 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23160367#23160530 But this won't work well when linking to anything where pagination has kicked in. For example, this ?item=AAA#BBB won't work because #BBB is on page 2 of AAA. You can try to hack around that, but essentially this only works for small threads, not for pages-long ones, and especially should be avoided when AAA is a story. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11116274#11116349 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11116274#11116349
- dang 6y agoHi Savraj! Can you be more specific? I link to specific comments all the time, so am not sure what you mean.