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Typophile: Feature request / wish list

Miguel Sousa

I was going to add a new entry to the Typophile Beta Bug Report, however, since this isn’t really a bug but rather a request for a new feature, I decided to start a new thread. Hopefully others will add some more ideas, and we’ll all make our beloved Typophile even better.

Here’s mine:
Is it possible to add a permalink to each post so that they can be referred directly within the thread? I know it’s already possible to do something like this http://typophile.com/node/17011#comment-103291 but not everyone knows about it. In addition, one needs to loggin (or dig through the source code) to get the comment number. Thank you :^)

(BTW, I noticed that this ’technique’ doesn’t work for threads with more than one page.)

[Edit: A List Apart does this too. Notice how the page number is included. I see now that we could do http://typophile.com/node/17011?from=50&comments_per_page=50#comment-105... but this is human-unreadable.]

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Miguel Sousa

Sorry, one more thing. Could the URL of the new page(s) be a little more user-friendly? Something like:
http://typophile.com/node/17011?page=2 instead of
http://typophile.com/node/17011?from=50&comments_per_page=50

(A List Apart does it)

Thanks again!

Mark Simonson

One thing that bugs me is how, when a topic extends to multiple pages, the “new” flags get wiped out before you can get to the last page of the topic. My workaround has been to add “?from=0&comments_per_page=500” to the link url so all the threads appear on the first (and only) page.

Related to this, I would like the topic page links (e.g., “1 2 3 ... next page last page”) to appear both at the top and bottom of topic pages. This would be especially helpful when there are lots of images to load on a page. For example, the only way to get to, say, page 3 of a topic is to got to page 1 first, then jump to the end of the page and click o

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