7/9/09 changes - How do you link to a specific message?

If you go to the most recent message in a topic, you are at the URL of that specific message.Now, say you see a message that is 3 messages up. Before that message was identified (the URL) as being in a certain forum (number designation) and a certain message number.The way it is now, there doesn't seem to be any good way to create a URL for a link to that message.MooseAdded by edit: Didn't these changes just render hoards of links all over the internet, to evcforum.net messages, to now be worthless?Edited by Minnemooseus, : See above.

Yeah, I can confirm those links seem buggered.

Do we have a solution to this question? I want to link to a specific message. How do?Edited by Admin, : Add a title.

This is something I'm still working on.To link to your message in this thread:

• [msg=3] (use the message number) becomes Message 3
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• [msg=-3] (use the negatvie message number) becomes Message 3
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• [mid=514893] (use the message ID) becomes Message 3

About the new MID code, which requires the message ID number, sometimes it isn't easy finding the ID number. I can't turn on the display of these numbers yet because there are aspects of them that are not yet fully debugged.The guaranteed way to find the message ID number right now is to hover or click on the reply button. If you have the status bar of your browser enabled, hovering over the reply button will display a URL that has "m=514213" (the number could be anything, of course). The number is the MID. Otherwise click on the reply button, you'll see the "m=514213" portion in the URL in the address box. Now click back.To link to a message in another thread (I'll link to Message 61 in the dBoard 3.0 Beta Release Today thread of the Announcements forum):

• [msg=-20,-12602,-61] becomes Message 61
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• [mid=514826] becomes Message 61

To find the URL for a specific message:

• Try to find a link to it from another message, as will be the case if someone's replied to it, or if it's a reply to another message. Just copy the URL of the link.
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• Find the MID, click on any reply or new topic button, enter [mid=msg_id_num] in the text box, click on preview. A link will appear in the preview window. Copy the URL

Features will become available soon that will make this much easier. Feedback like this makes it easier to set priorities, and I'll make this the highest priority. Barring unexpected problems, expect things to be much better in a week or so.

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--	Percy
	EvC Forum Director

This board is without a doubt the very best thing on the net. Thx

RAZD has just posted the following in another "S&Q" topic: It would be nice if, somehow, the old version of the topic address could still get you to the proper topic. Percy probably does need another project to occupy empty time in his life.Moose

I should be able to fix this, too. I have some time set aside this weekend and should be able to make some fair progress.

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--	Percy
	EvC Forum Director

As mentioned in a couple other threads (dBoard 3.0 Beta Release Today and Missing Threads), but this is now fixed. Please let me know if you encounter any more occurrences of this problem.

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--	Percy
	EvC Forum Director

Please see New MID dBCode for Linking to Messages.

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--	Percy
	EvC Forum Director