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#1 User is offline   Salt-Man Z 

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Posted 20 March 2018 - 08:25 PM

The permalinks at the top-right of each post give a pop-up with a URL to copy/paste for that post. The problem is, the link given is incomplete, taking you to the top of the page the post appears on, not to the actual post itself.

The pop-up gives you (for example):
https://forum.malazanempire.com/topic/382-reading-at-tmoment/page__st__23660__p__1322061

What you really want is:
https://forum.malazanempire.com/topic/382-reading-at-tmoment/page__st__23660__p__1322061#entry1322061

Notice that the only difference is the additional #entry1322061 at the end.
"Here is light. You will say that it is not a living entity, but you miss the point that it is more, not less. Without occupying space, it fills the universe. It nourishes everything, yet itself feeds upon destruction. We claim to control it, but does it not perhaps cultivate us as a source of food? May it not be that all wood grows so that it can be set ablaze, and that men and women are born to kindle fires?"
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Posted 21 March 2018 - 01:00 AM

The link for that post in the topic should be ".../page__view__findpost__p__1321935" which redirects to "#entry1322061". Where did you get the "__st__" version without the hash?
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Posted 21 March 2018 - 04:42 PM

Ah, my fault, I had manually edited the link myself (so I could direct someone to a particular post) and put that in my message instead of an actual link from the board.

Here's another, better example of permalink wonkiness:

I'm starting from the current last post (#23759) in this thread.

Said post contains a quote back to a previous post (#23755). Here's the quote link:
https://forum.malazanempire.com/index.php?app=forums&module=forums&section=findpost&pid=1322813
That redirects to:
https://forum.malazanempire.com/topic/382-reading-at-tmoment/page__st__23740__p__1322813#entry1322813

The quoted post's permalink is:
https://forum.malazanempire.com/topic/382-reading-at-tmoment/page__view__findpost__p__1322813
But that redirects to the last post:
https://forum.malazanempire.com/topic/382-reading-at-tmoment/page__pid__1322832__st__23740#entry1322832

Oddly, the second-to-last post in the thread (#23758) has a permalink of:
https://forum.malazanempire.com/topic/382-reading-at-tmoment/page__view__findpost__p__1322824
Which also redirects to the last post:
https://forum.malazanempire.com/topic/382-reading-at-tmoment/page__pid__1322832__st__23740#entry1322832

In fact, all of the permalinks from post #s 23755 though 23759 all redirect to post #23759!
"Here is light. You will say that it is not a living entity, but you miss the point that it is more, not less. Without occupying space, it fills the universe. It nourishes everything, yet itself feeds upon destruction. We claim to control it, but does it not perhaps cultivate us as a source of food? May it not be that all wood grows so that it can be set ablaze, and that men and women are born to kindle fires?"
―Gene Wolfe, The Citadel of the Autarch
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