As it is, if you want to link directly to a specific post on a topic, you have to take two different URLs and splice them together. Example
1. The topic's URL.
http://www.runevillage.com/ThePub/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=425597&st=0&sk=t&sd=a&start=60
2. The URL to quote or edit the post you want to link to.
http://www.runevillage.com/ThePub/posting.php?mode=quote&f=16&p=3490786
Now you can take unnecessary factors out of the first URL
http://www.runevillage.com/ThePub/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=425597
(f and t are also unnecessary, but they're left there anyway)
take the important part from the second URL
&p=3490786
http://www.runevillage.com/ThePub/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=425597&p=3490786
And then finally you need to add a little magic to make the browser scroll down to the right post.
http://www.runevillage.com/ThePub/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=425597&p=3490786#p3490786

What was the point of telling you that? Simple, lads. My suggestion is that the "topic" above each post be made into a link to that post.
As seen here, except perhaps bold to make it stand out more:


Also, though it'd be significantly harder, something awesome would be some way to increase the brevity of these URLs.
For example:

Would redirect you to that specific post, in the default forum. This shortens the linking URL significantly by removing a total of:
topicf=16&t=425597&#p3490786
That many.
Of course, that one's a toughie, I can't expect it to be implemented but I can sure hope.

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I have to admit, I'm a little confused as to what you mean.

But I think you are talking about being able to link to a specific post within a topic, without having to manually change the URL, right?

In that case,

Is your solution.

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Doughnut Juice ~ And you're not a normal user, you're like The One Village Staff to Rule Them All.
Henner ~ You're the coolest in my eyes, Gamestar.
Jared ~ You make me lose the game. :[
Rocky Martin ~ Substitute effect: buy less potatoes.

Wow, that is a TINY button with no clear use unless you know what it's for already. Maybe I should change my suggestion to "make that button easier to find and figure out what it's for".
Thank you for pointing that out though ^_^

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Wow, I didn't notice that either.

I do like the suggestion though, Boa. I believe it's already done when searching, I can't imagine it's too hard to implement it into a topic. (But I may be wrong.)

Oh my, even I didn't know it was there

It does have another use though: it shows you which posts you've already read (white) and which you haven't (orange).

- Greetz Glodenox

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Really? I thought everbody knew. xD

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Doughnut Juice ~ And you're not a normal user, you're like The One Village Staff to Rule Them All.
Henner ~ You're the coolest in my eyes, Gamestar.
Jared ~ You make me lose the game. :[
Rocky Martin ~ Substitute effect: buy less potatoes.

Okay, THAT is funny. XD
I felt stupid for a minute, now I don't. ^_^

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Wow. That's cool.
Thanks gamey. XD

Gamestar is a loser who doesn't enjoy cowbell.

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... Seriously, am I the only one on this forum to know that existed? XD

Noobs. Total noobs. It's been there forever. Before the BB3 switchover.

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Doughnut Juice ~ And you're not a normal user, you're like The One Village Staff to Rule Them All.
Henner ~ You're the coolest in my eyes, Gamestar.
Jared ~ You make me lose the game. :[
Rocky Martin ~ Substitute effect: buy less potatoes.

I noticed it, but I didn't know you could click it, or what it was for either. So yes, Gamestar is a noob.

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Awesome sig made by Goten!

Yea. So did I.

It's a standard feature since phpBB 2... Every phpBB based board has one of those nifty things.

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Something has crashed on my pc. I blame /usr/bin/laden

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Ga nooit weg zonder een knuffel
Ga nooit weg zonder een zoen
Want wie het noodlot zal ontmoeten
Kan dit later niet meer doen.

In loving memory of you, Kirsten.

Umm. I might have missed the point, but you can just get the url of the topic:

http://www.runevillage.com/ThePub/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=427017

then add

&start=[post number]

IE.

http://www.runevillage.com/ThePub/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=427017&start=5

Which links to Glode's post.

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dr henry wrote:

I'm not against the idea, I just think that it is stupid and we don't need it.

Or you could just right click the icon and select "Copy Link Location" :0

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Doughnut Juice ~ And you're not a normal user, you're like The One Village Staff to Rule Them All.
Henner ~ You're the coolest in my eyes, Gamestar.
Jared ~ You make me lose the game. :[
Rocky Martin ~ Substitute effect: buy less potatoes.

Noobs. How do you think the search page takes you to the exact post in the topic when you click the link.

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Thanks Goten!

*that* I knew. But that you could immediately get the link to that specific post from that link, I didn't know

- Greetz Glodenox

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Or "View your submitted message" after you make a post.

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Thanks Goten!

I never actually realized that little icon was actually a link to that post. I always just thought its only function was to mark "read and "unread".

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Sig image links to Goals and Achievements thread.
27th RV forum member!

So did i

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Everybody is suffering from a lack of light.
One day, the eldest of this village leaves for the mountain with a teaspoon in his hands.
The others ask him what he intends to do.
He replies that he is going to move the mountain.
"But you will never succeed!" they cry out.
"No, i will never succeed, but somebody has to start."

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Kikori wrote:

Runevillage the forum is pretty well much done. Runevillage the group will eventually die, but as long as we're still friends with each other in the end, it's still a pretty big thought in our heads. Runevillage the family is forever, no matter where we settle down. If absolutely nothing else ever comes of Runevillage in the future, that alone is a pretty damn awesome thought.

I knew it, I noticed my cursor changed.. And presto! I LEARNED SOMETHING!

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