Questions tagged [magic-links]
Abbreviations for common hyperlinks in comments and chat
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Can we get an [ai-policy] magic link?
Now that sites have AI policies, it seems like we would benefit from a magic link, like [ai-policy], linking to the site's respective help page.
I tested this just now, but it didn't work, and it's ...
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Why do magic links work only in comments?
Is there a specific reason why magic links such as [so], [meta.se], etc. do not work in questions and answers, too? Is this by design? They would be handy, especially in the meta sites.
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Is there a magic link to tags from meta sites? [duplicate]
To create a magic link to a tag of a main site, I can use [tag: tagName]. This applies even when I'm in its meta site. Is there a magic link to the tags of the meta site, rather of the main site?
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Textbox placeholder for creating a site-specific close reason includes invalid short links
When a diamond moderator creates a new site-specific close reason, they are presented with a form to specify the various notices that should appear on closed posts. One of those notices, the one ...
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Add magic link for image of code/data/errors
I just read about magic links for the first time from this Meta Stack Exchange post. The accepted answer had a good amount of useful magic links to help articles such as [mcve], [ask], and [answer], ...
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Can we change the link text for Comment Shorthands?
One of my + SO's most-used Comment shorthand is the [edit] link:
[edit]
Link to the edit page for the post the comment is on, i.e. /posts/{id}/edit.
Link text is "edit" (capitalization is ...
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Supported Markdown for Flag Text does not Match Supported Comment Markdown
This answer from 2013 states that:
flags are now rendered using the same "mini-markdown" renderer used for comments.
The help center on comment formatting includes a list of shorthand ...
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"Magic Links" displayed text ambiguous in some cases
The help-center "magic links" for comments such as [help/on-topic], [help/dont-ask] and [help/behavior] currently have the ambiguous (and poorly capitalized) display text of "help ...
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Provide a magic link to the more detailed tag info page
Currently, as a Sci-Fi moderator, if I want to send a new user to read up on how to use the story-dentification tag in a comment, I have to manually link to https://scifi.stackexchange.com/tags/story-...
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The site magic links should add .SE to their titles
We use magic links to get a text-ready link to the SE sites. For example the magic link
[cryptography.se] provides a link to cryptography.
When we say;
this question better be asked on cryptography
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Provide autocomplete for magic links in the comment editor
There are a ton of magic links which expand in the comments, some of which are main, meta, or community specific, and some which are templatized (on the surface, I'm not sure if they are explicitly ...
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Why do magic links, that work in comments, not work in posts?
DSP.SE
^ is actually
[DSP.SE](dsp.stackexchange.com/)
As a comment, it renders, but it changes text and inserts the URL separately:
What's the deal?
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Magic link capitalization
Since the current Stack Exchange guideline requires capitalization for links, should we also capitalize (I think we should) the result of magic links?
E.g., hence using [edit] will result in Edit ...
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Can we have a more specific anchor text for some of the comment magic-links?
(Also asked 6+ years ago on MSO),
There are a couple of ways to write help-center links with short sentences, like [help/on-topic]. These are useful when writing help comments to new users (for those ...
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Change the text of the [ask] magic link to "How to Ask a Good Question"
I (and I'm sure most of you) often type comments like this:
Blah blah blah... please read [ask] blah blah
..which gets expanded to:
Blah blah blah... please read How to Ask blah blah
This has ...
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What are the magic links for Meta Stack Overflow, Meta Super User, and Meta Server Fault? [duplicate]
I found out that the Meta Stack Overflow magic link is not included in this list nor this list. There are generic links that follow the pattern [<something>.se] -> [meta.<something>.se]....
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`[faq]` magic link does not magically link to the FAQ
There is a [faq] magic link. When you use it, it appears to work, and it gets rendered as FAQ. However, despite the fact that it is the [faq] magic link, that it gets rendered as FAQ, and that it ...
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Magic link doesn't render in Network Profile
Looking at a recent comment in my Network Profile I see that the regular link contained therein rendered properly (i.e. the link is hidden and the text is in blue) but the magic link does not:
When I ...
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Add magic link for Stack Apps
Comments and chat messages have shorthand 'magic' links for all Q&A sites, e.g. typing [so] will produce a nicely formatted link: Stack Overflow and [apple.se] will produce Ask Different.
All Q&...
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Add shorthand links for MathOverflow and all non-English Stack Overflow sites to comment formatting help page
The editing help for comments currently lists a few shorthand links which can be used to link to other sites:
[so], [pt.so], [su], [sf], [metase], [a51], [se] – link to the given site. Link text is ...
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Magic link [reprex] doesn't render in iOS App
I searched but couldn't find this reported. The magic link [reprex], documented here, doesn't render in comments on the iOS app, you just see [reprex]
App version: 1.6.6.2
Device: Unknown (iPhone11,6)...
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Localization of magic link MCVE is broken
We saw that there was a wording change on how to handle MCVE. Since this change went live, we saw that the wording on international sites is broken.
Since we didn't have a full discussion about this ...
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Add a [contact] magic link to the Contact Us form
Sometimes, a user has created multiple accounts by accident. In these cases, I often post a comment starting with something like
Please use the Contact Us form to have your accounts merged.
with ...
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Make magic links to help sections consistent
As per Add data.SE style "magic links" to comments, currently, some help link require the help/ prefix while some don't:
[ask], [answer], [mcve], [tour] don't require it.
[help/on-topic], [...
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Can a community have its own internal magic links?
I'm talking about magic links, which are very useful while posting comments. We frequently use [tour] , [help], [ask], [ans] etc. while introducing new users about How Stack Exchange works.
On ...
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Add a [conduct] "magic link" – similar to [help] and [tour] – to link to the Code of Conduct in comments
I like the [help] and [tour] shortcuts to concisely direct people to a specific section of the help in whatever site I’m commenting on.
Can a [conduct] or similar magic link to create a proper link to ...
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Magic links not working for alternative URLs on meta
In chat just now, I was trying to mention some meta sites using the magic links. Just as [maths.se] and [fantasy.se] and [thefinalfrontier.se] should (and do!) render as links to Mathematics SE, Sci-...
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Area 51 Discussions magic link shows wrong title
When magic-linking to Area 51 Discussions using [discuss.area51.se] or [area51.meta.se], the link shows up as:
Area 51
That should be fixed to say "Area 51 Discussions" instead, because the actual ...
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Magic link for MathOverflow in chat and comments
I can link to many Stack Exchange sites with syntax like [so] or [math.se]. Now that MathOverflow is a member for Stack Exchange is there a similar markdown link?
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A couple issues with magic links
I noticed that some magic links in comment section have weird unfolding. In particular:
[tour] can be used with any case for any letter. Result links will keep these cases. Probably because of this ...
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Add data.SE style “magic links” to questions and answers [duplicate]
When writing comments or using chat, users can use "magic links" as markdown shortcuts.
[help] – Help Center
[tour] – Tour
[chat] – Meta Stack Exchange Chat
[answer] – How To Answer
[meta.se] – Meta ...
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`[metaso]` expanding to MSE instead of MSO
See my comment below. Since Meta Stack Exchange was separated from Meta Stack Overflow in 2014, it no longer never makes sense to expand [metaso] to Meta Stack Exchange.
Also there's currently no ...
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Improve the link text of the magic link [help/on-topic]
The link text of some magic links is a precise phrase,
for example [ask], linking to /help/how-to-ask, will have the link text "How to Ask".
But [help/on-topic], linking to /help/on-topic, will have ...
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Allow custom text for magic links [duplicate]
What about allowing things like
[Edit this question][edit]
[What's on topic?][help/on-topic]
[The proposal site][a51]
So they look like
Edit this question
What's on topic?
The proposal site ...
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Magic links are not localized in app [closed]
My comment to the post contains a magic link [mcve].
On the web this link translated to Russian:
But in app this link remains untranslated:
Same for android app:
I think any of magic ...
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Will [meta.X.se] magic links stop working in favor of [X.meta.se]?
When I'm here, on Meta.se, I often guide people to specific child metas using the magic link syntax [meta.foo.se].
For example, in this comment, I typed [meta.math.se] and it automagically expanded ...
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Markdown shorthand for Stack Exchange sites in questions and answers
I know that most (if not all) SE sites have a shorthand link in comments. For example, [SO] for Stack Overflow, [Math.SE] for math.stackexchange.com, and [SoftwareEngineering.SE] for ...
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"help center" magic link isn't click-friendly
There's a magic link I use all the time: [help/on-topic]. If you didn't know it, when posted in a comment, it renders as help center - which is great!
Except for one thing: from a UX perspective, it'...
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Magic link for OP (original poster)
I just found out about magic links today and think they're awesome, but one additional type of magic link I would find really useful is the ability to reference the question author if commenting on a ...
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Can we stop counting link text in comment word-counts? [duplicate]
I have recently posted a comment which linked to a Google Ngrams search of some word uses.
[Ngrams](https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=caught+flu%2Ccaught+the+flu%2Ccaught+measles%2Ccaught+...
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Please add a `[editing]` magic link in comments
In a comment, I'd love to be able to say:
please foo the bar information by [editing] your question.
but I can't. The closest I can get is:
please foo the bar information by [edit]ing your ...
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Magic link for Stack Overflow in Spanish
Unlike other localized SO sites, which have magic links [pt.so], [ja.so], and [ru.so], Spanish Stack Overflow does not seem to have one: I tried [es.so] and [sp.so] to no avail, either in chat or ...
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The [chat] shortcut in comments links to all rooms instead of the main site room
It has already been requested that the magic link insertion when typing [chat] in a comment be improved to allow specifying which chat room (as a site may have a number of rooms).
In addition to this,...
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Accept magic links wherever a URL is accepted
Currently, one can make short links to some common SE-related locations with the magic-links syntax:
[magic-keyword]
Essentially, it fills the same niche as Interwiki in MediaWiki.
But, the feature ...
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Are magic links broken, or am I using them wrong?
Twice in the past two days, on AU and Math.SE, I've tried to make some comments using Magic links, which I want to come out like this:
As it currently stands, this does not provide an answer to the ...
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Allow customizable "magic links" on a per-site basis. [duplicate]
When writing comments, you can type certain "magic links" to link to common help pages. For example, if a new post is lacking a minimal, complete and verifiable example, I can just write
Please ...
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Add magic links for Meta Stack Overflow and other site metas for sites hosted on their own domains
In comments here on Meta SE I can use the magic link [so] to link to https://stackoverflow.com.
Consequently, I would have expected the magic link [meta.so] to link to https://meta.stackoverflow.com ...
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In all chats, "[Chat.SE]" expands to a Server Fault link
As the title says.
Write "[Chat.SE] roflcopter" in the input box.
Press enter.
Chat message appears, rendered as "Server Fault roflcopter".
Roflcopter.
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Add a magic comment link for help/formatting
The magic comment links are extremely useful. However, the one page I most often find myself linking to in comments is $SITE/help/formatting. Unfortunately, [help/formatting] doesn't work.
Could we ...
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Can we have an "edit question" magic link for answer comments?
Yet another request for a magic link. In the following situations:
I answer a question, the asker replies to me in a comment, and I want to reply to them asking them to edit certain information into ...
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