Previously, when one clicked the "link" button on a question or answer, a link that was (more or less) of the form
http:// ____.stackexchange.com/questions/questionnumber/questiontitle/postnumber#postnumber
was provided. Now, the links look like
http:// ____.stackexchange.com/q/postnumber/userid
I'm all for shortening and simplification, but when I go to migrate an answer to a comment, the shortened links don't work as targets; I get an error message saying "target is invalid: no action taken". Instead, I have to follow the shortened link and copy the expanded url out of my browser's address bar, and use that in the "convert answer to comment" dialog.
Could this be fixed so that the shortened links can be used to migrate answers?
Not sure if this qualifies as a bug or feature request.
/userid
from the shortened URL. – mmyers Nov 22 '11 at 16:23