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That does indeed work! Fascinating. Now I'm endlessly curious as to why I've never gotten a correctly located link from many designers in several orgs. It is,

That does indeed work! Fascinating. Now I'm endlessly curious as to why I've never gotten a correctly located link from many designers in several orgs. It is, however, sufficiently buried that I think most designers just copy the browser URL and call it a day. I honestly can't remember a single time I've gotten a targeted Figma link like this from a designer.

kamikaz1k 3y ago
Because people will delete and create new modes as they iterate so those hash links become stale. So while the person who replied to you is technically correct, effectively it is still very unstable.
- pfranz 3y ago
  Similarly, on pages like GitLab you can link to specific line(s) of code in a file...but it often is the head of that branch. The URL will resolve in the future, but its pretty common that the chunk of code has moved. I wish it was easy to grab a URL for that specific version, with a banner at the top saying it's not the newest version of the code (something I sometimes see with documentation). I don't see why Figma couldn't do this, too.
  - Towaway69 3y ago
    > Similarly, on pages like GitLab you can link to specific line(s) of code in a file...but it often is the head of that branch. The URL will resolve in the future, but its pretty common that the chunk of code has moved. On GitHub you can hit the 'y' key[1] and it will add the revision into the URL. GitLab will most probably have something similar. [1]=https://docs.github.com/en/get-started/accessibility/keyboard-shortcuts#source-code-browsing https://docs.github.com/en/get-started/accessibility/keyboar...
    - pfranz 3y ago
      Thanks! It looks like they use the same shortcut key! https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/shortcuts.html#project-files https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/shortcuts.html#project-files
andsoitis 3y ago
To be fair, you didn't figure it out either so one could consider this a feature discoverability issue. I didn't know either, but plan to share with my coworkers!

kamikaz1k 3y ago

Because people will delete and create new modes as they iterate so those hash links become stale. So while the person who replied to you is technically correct, effectively it is still very unstable.

pfranz 3y ago
Similarly, on pages like GitLab you can link to specific line(s) of code in a file...but it often is the head of that branch. The URL will resolve in the future, but its pretty common that the chunk of code has moved. I wish it was easy to grab a URL for that specific version, with a banner at the top saying it's not the newest version of the code (something I sometimes see with documentation). I don't see why Figma couldn't do this, too.
- Towaway69 3y ago
  > Similarly, on pages like GitLab you can link to specific line(s) of code in a file...but it often is the head of that branch. The URL will resolve in the future, but its pretty common that the chunk of code has moved. On GitHub you can hit the 'y' key[1] and it will add the revision into the URL. GitLab will most probably have something similar. [1]=https://docs.github.com/en/get-started/accessibility/keyboard-shortcuts#source-code-browsing https://docs.github.com/en/get-started/accessibility/keyboar...
  - pfranz 3y ago
    Thanks! It looks like they use the same shortcut key! https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/shortcuts.html#project-files https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/shortcuts.html#project-files

andsoitis 3y ago

To be fair, you didn't figure it out either so one could consider this a feature discoverability issue. I didn't know either, but plan to share with my coworkers!