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  1. Have a conversation going in comments on an answer (whoops)
  2. SE asks you to migrate to chat.
  3. Accept.
  4. Chat opens.
  5. First line is from Feeds, with a oneboxed link to the answer. It's like this: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/<question-id>/<title-ish>/<answer-id>#<answer-id>
  6. Click on it.
  7. Now observe any comment link (the linkified comment timestamps) on the page. The trailing /<answer-id> is still there.
  8. Paste any such link in a chat room.
  9. The link fails to onebox.

It's not a huge deal, but it is kind of bewildering when you expect comment oneboxing to work and, because you're a software developer, can't help but spend (it turns out, waste!) five minutes of your precious life trying to figure out why. :P

I guess there are a few ways to fix this, including making the comment link oneboxing itself more lenient, or removing that trailing /<answer-id> from the comment links.

But, assuming the URL's anchor works, can we just drop the <answer-id> from Feeds' one-boxed URL?

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  • I'd simplify to "certain spellings of comment links don't onebox in chat"? It's nice of course to demonstrate that there is a sane [sic] path to get in such a situation too :)
    – sehe
    Commented May 12, 2015 at 22:11
  • @sehe: I'd be happy to accept that alternative title if this goes the way of fixing the comment oneboxing. It may be that the Feeds link changes, or the comment links change.
    – Lightness Races in Orbit
    Commented May 12, 2015 at 22:12
  • I think the onebox detection code should become less picky. That's probably the whole problem. After all, the links do work
    – sehe
    Commented May 12, 2015 at 22:13
  • Besides, I already have a bug or two open about "certain spellings of <X> don't onebox in chat", for different <X>, so :P
    – Lightness Races in Orbit
    Commented May 12, 2015 at 22:13

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