Discourse post direct copy link

[chapoi]

The functionality of this theme component is now included in core Discourse.

Please remove the theme component from your forum if you still have it installed.

	Summary	Adds a direct-copy button to the post menu actions.

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A small component that will copy the link of a post directly to your clipboard, circumventing the original share modal popup.

Replaced the share functionality with a direct copy functionality. Same icon, different action.

On click it shows a toast notification and a little checkmark on the copy button, to indicate the copy action happened.

Desktop only – mobile has native copy popup support.

Only the post menu button is impacted, the timestamp and topic share button remain the same.

Previous version changes

• The previous version had similar functionality on mobile, but decided to drop this in favor of the native support.
• It also had the option to keep the original share-modal button in the post menu actions, but removed that for now to avoid confusion and complexity. So in the latest version, you choose either type A or type B functionality.
• The toasty was shown in the bottom right corner, but on large screens this was too far from the action, so moved it closer

[Lilly (Lillian)]

@chapoi

You can opt to keep the original share button too by unchecking this setting:

just to clarify, i believe the existing share button is also optional to show in admin-settings under post menu? (which of course is the same as clicking the timestamp in top right corner of a post)

[Canapin (Coin-coin le Canapin)]

Indeed, you can completely remove any of these shortcuts, both outside and inside the wrench icon.

[chapoi]

Oh cool TIL.

Regardless, I still think having it disabled in the component by default is probably useful?

[twofoursixeight]

When signed out, only the copy button should appear. It would make the anonymous sharing process easier for logged out users and two copy buttons arent needed

[sam (Sam Saffron)]

Feedback from @darkpixlz

@darkpixlz

I’d love to see it pop up if I click the link button twice,

(it) the old share dialog.

[sam (Sam Saffron)]

Note @darkpixlz you can still get the dialog today by clicking the time

[martin (Martin Brennan)]

I worked with @chapoi to merge this into core this week, and it’s here now:

FEATURE: Add copy link post menu button (#24709)

You should uninstall this theme component if you have it installed.

A new post_menu button, copyLink, is added and used as the default instead of share. If site owners want the old behaviour back, they just need to change the post_menu site setting to use the share button instead of copyLink.

On desktop, this button will copy the link of the post to the user’s clipboard and show a nice animation. On mobile the native share menu will be shown.