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Permalink for comment that leads to Q&A instead of chat room / transcript

feature-request in-progress add tag

Solomon Rutzky

I have a permalink to a comment:

https://topanswers.xyz/transcript?room=1152&id=54574#c54574

It takes you to a chat room / transcript with the particular message highlighted. 

That ok, but what I had really wanted was to reference that comment _within_ the context of it's associated Q &amp; A.

Yes, at the top of the chat room / transcript there is a link to the question:


[Can't add, or even create, many tags for new question](https://topanswers.xyz/databases?q=1114)

However, while clicking on that does take you to the associated question, the comment that I was linking to is no longer highlighted on the right. &#x1F63F;

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Jack Douglas

We are working on a fairly big change to chat that will mean this problem goes away.

The plan is to replace the chat scroll bar with a minimap of all the messages ever posted in the room, and have infinite scroll in both directions: the transcript and chat will then effectively be amalgamated.

Another couple of things this will make easier:

* replying from the 'transcript'
* seeing at a glance where messages fit into the overall history of a room

I'll update this post when we release the changes.

@Solomon re [your question](#question) <---- we keep toying with the idea of making the comment autotext (the text that appears in the message box when you click on 'comment') something like this instead of just '@Solomon'

@Jack Sounds good. Will there be a visual indication (highlight or whatever) of what item on the left (question or one of the answers) the comment was originally posted for? I definitely see some benefits to this "running conversation" approach, but if I clicked on the "comment" link on a particular answer, _that_ is the context for what I'm saying/asking, and without an obvious indicator of that context, I can see the conversation being confusing, at least in parts. Basically, people have a hard enough time as it is communicating under ideal conditions, so it's best not to require additional effort in order to quickly understand what you're reading. Comments originating in this chat area probably don't need anything special.

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