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Let's say I wanted to send @example the link to a comment. Instead of telling him/her the link of the project/studio/forum and to scroll down, I would send him/her the link to the exact comment and they see it quicker! How's that?

Currently, there's a way to get the comment ID. However a button that does this would be cool to have…

Right-click in the comment >> Inspect Element



the comment id is 156551018
https://scratch.mit.edu/studios/30090520/comments/#comments-156551018

-MyNewAccount- wrote:

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i don't think anyone would know how to inspect element to that extent, so support! i bet some people would love to copy an interesting comment without having to inspect element the comment.

Autofirejm wrote:

sorry, this suggestion appears to be a Duplicate, please discuss this topic there

It is not a duplicate

Autofirejm wrote:

i don't think anyone would know how to inspect element to that extent,

I've done it before, and even changed the code in there!

bump, this would make it so much easier! I don't want to take the time to inspect everytime i want to share a comment

Users on iOS devices cannot get the links of comments using inspect (as it doesn't exist), so this would make the website more mobile friendly.

Bump

0regrets wrote:

Users on iOS devices cannot get the links of comments using inspect (as it doesn't exist), so this would make the website more mobile friendly.

It's possible if you connect your iPhone to your mac though…

nesseta wrote:

0regrets wrote:

Users on iOS devices cannot get the links of comments using inspect (as it doesn't exist), so this would make the website more mobile friendly.

It's possible if you connect your iPhone to your mac though…

You could just use the Mac to do it then
Also, you can if it was from the messages page, you can copy the url from the messages page, or you can also just copy from the search bar.

nesseta wrote:

0regrets wrote:

Users on iOS devices cannot get the links of comments using inspect (as it doesn't exist), so this would make the website more mobile friendly.

It's possible if you connect your iPhone to your mac though…

Not everyone has mac

But this is great because i have a lot of trouble getting comment links on an ios ipad

I'm quite surprised this isn't already a feature (and that I hadn't noticed this before, haha!) - the Inspect Element workaround is a long solution and quite inaccessible in my opinion, especially with the previously brought up iOS concerns.

I'm personally all for this suggestion - with regard to implementation, I imagine a system like the one on the Scratch Forums would work - by which I mean, where the timestamp offers a hyperlink to the comment.

My only potential point of contention is that it could lead to ‘brigading’ - in which people link to a comment by an user they don't like with the aim of getting people to comment potentially nasty and Terms of Service-breaking things, which is currently an issue on other sites that have similar features. However, I don't see this as a big concern - in my time on Scratch, I've only seen it with the current system with projects twice, and with comments perhaps once? As a result, we can probably dismiss this contention - though it's perhaps something worth noting.