Problems with links to individual posts
 

Background: I have my "number of posts per screen" option set to a number other than the forum default.

Problem: Like other FT posters, I often link to specific posts relevant to a given discussion. This works fine if I don't mind having the linked-to post presented in a window by itself (e.g., http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/14388759-post41.html), but if I instead use a link to that post in context -- that is, surrounded by adjacent posts in the thread, the link is broken for anybody using a different "screenful" setting. Thus, this link to the same post as above, http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/miles...l#post14388759, likely takes you somewhere other than to post 41 in that thread.

Having the URL be dependent on user-specific settings seems like a bad idea. Yes, I could avoid this using another (seemingly undocumented) option, http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/miles...-first.html#41 (where I append #<post number in thread> to the base thread URL), but that requires me, and every other FT user posting links, to hand-tweak the URL instead of using the one autogenerated by FT & displayed in the upper-right corner of the post to be linked to.

Not the biggest technical problem on FT, to be sure, but irritating all the same.

as you may be indicating, the problem is the page numbers in thread titles, which vary by user (and login status)

Correct.

removed

cant believe i forgot there is a solution >
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/luxur...l#post13542264

this is the format used when you click the >
1. thread link in a view single post
2. link in a quote
(so you can right click as well)

there is also this old format option >
http://flyertalk.com/forum/showthrea...31#post7150031