Comment by 🕹️ skyjake

@jmcs: create a thread on the fly if it doesn't exist

That is a great idea actually. Certainly sounds convenient.

Mar 13 · 9 months ago

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@skyjake ... it sounded like a good idea when I thought of it (wiki soft used to do this, just put a link on your text and done), but I don't know how well it could work in practice. What 'ID' should I use for the url? is it going to be 'slug' based? how do I make sure it doesn't exist already? how much complexity does it add? is it worth it?...

and so on. Honestly, I don't think it's worth it, it adds complexity for a use case that would be too niche and, honestly, takes like 10 seconds altogether anyway to do now by hand...

@jmcs Maybe it isn't that complex... The post URI that is being submitted would be the unique ID, so the system would just have to look for a post thread with that URI as a link inside the user's own /u/-subspace.

I mean: how would I, as a user, know which unique ID to use in my link, to create one? (it could be already in use, so I'd be linking to something, instead of creating one, I could create an integer overflow if I send something stupid, what do I know ...)That's why I think it's almost better to visit, create a link manually, and copy it ..

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