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I was just looking Mnjul's post in the last "trojan in MP!"-alert. He put two links to two threads. i imagined they where Patchou's well-known "how to get rid from ad-ware" and some other trojan alert. However I didn't know, and I didn't want to waste more time looking what the Thread were.
So here's my suggestion: When a member posts urls of threads or posts, it could automatically ask the database for the thread-id and convert it into a link to that thread/post with the name of the thread.

E.g.:

I type this in my new post:

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http://shoutbox.menthix.net/showthread.php?tid=21598

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Now it wuold show as this:
http://shoutbox.menthix.net/showthread.php?tid=21598

What I suggest is that it's automatically modified when sending the post (not everytime the post is shown...) to this:

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How to uninstall ad-ware/sponsor

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And therefore appear as: How to uninstall ad-ware/sponsor


Of course there can be further possiblities like: Patchou's thread: How to uninstall ad-ware/sponsor
Or when linking to a post: Chris Boulton's reply in Patchou's thread: Note about Trojan detection

And even better if the name of the poster/thread poster was a link to their Profile.

Call me dreamer

Good idea but a tag like this would be more useful:
[thread=21598] and that becomes How to uninstall ad-ware/sponsor
[post=144278] and that is changed by Chris Boulton's reply in Patchou's thread: Note about Trojan detection

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Originally posted by Choli
Good idea but a tag like this would be more useful:
[thread=21598] and that becomes How to uninstall ad-ware/sponsor
[post=144278] and that is changed by Chris Boulton's reply in Patchou's thread: Note about Trojan detection

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[thread] and [post] tags would be a great idea.

Well, not bad, but my lazyness couldn't make me hink of adding any improvement to the myBB code.
And usually it's easier to copy the whole link.
If thread/post tags can accept full links, too, then...
so

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[thread=21598] would be the same as [thread=http://shoutbox.menthix.net/showthread.php?tid=21598]
[post=144278] would be the same as [post=http://shoutbox.menthix.net/showthread.php?tid=16516&pid=144278#pid144278]

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Nice

I like the auto-link feature (when you use the [url] command like we always have) it displays the page's title this way people (or maybe an option to display the pages title or not in a dialogue box) this way it's not too different than we use now.

But when you use the [url] tag, it already gives you the choice of setting your own link and it wouldn't be a good idea to somehow add a new parametes to it.
It's much easier to make the thread/post tags. I mean, technically.

Btw, it's not very safe to read titles from other sites that might contain any weird character messing it up and opening security holes.

woah nice idea Keystorm..

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Originally posted by KeyStorm
[thread=21598] would be the same as [thread=http://shoutbox.menthix.net/showthread.php?tid=21598]
[post=144278] would be the same as [post=http://shoutbox.menthix.net/showthread.php?tid=16516&pid=144278#pid144278]

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It's a very cool idea, and very possible, but I'll have to think about it. I suppose you'd want me to add it in newthread, newreply, and editpost just like [attachment]...

I like the [thread=num] and [post=num] because there's less crap in there to parse, but they would be less convenient for the user with a full URL in their clipboard.

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Originally posted by KeyStorm
Btw, it's not very safe to read titles from other sites that might contain any weird character messing it up and opening security holes.

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Other sites? What other sites?

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Originally posted by WDZ
Other sites? What other sites?

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Originally posted by anubis_kree_
I like the auto-link feature (when you use the [url] command like we always have) it displays the page's title this way people (or maybe an option to display the pages title or not in a dialogue box) this way it's not too different than we use now.

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Oh... I wasn't sure what he meant by that. I'm definitely not opening connections to other sites, downloading pages, and parsing <title>s out.