I sometimes open comment permalinks when going through my inbox on the official web UI. I wasn’t completely satisfied with how they work so I wanted to rethink permalinks.
Here’s what I ended up with for now: https://lemminator.netlify.app/c/lemmyapps/post/3425509/comment/2569266
Lemmy.world’s officially supported web UIs:
- https://lemmy.world/comment/2569266
- https://a.lemmy.world/lemmy.world/comment/2569266
- https://photon.lemmy.world/post/lemmy.world/3425509?thread=0.2569136.2569266#2569266
- m.lemmy.world doesn’t seem to support them
- https://old.lemmy.world/comment/2569266
Some design decisions I made (for better or worse):
- You can open a permalink by clicking a comment’s timestamp. This minimizes UI clutter but trades off discoverability.
- The permalink page shows the linked comment near the top, skipping all post information except for its title
- The comment you link to is the one you’ll see at the top (not the parent comment)
- Context is available behind a button
Are permalinks something you use at all? Do you have any opinions on how they should work?
I guess? But the same thing works with Lemmy already, you can search for an url. I don’t really know what needs to be done to have instance-agnostic permalinks…