Thank you so much for making this very useful theme component <3
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I noticed a slight issue. The checkbox creation prevents the link text input content from being selected by default, and unfortunately, I don’t know how to fix it…
That’s a minor issue though. 
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Shouldn’t the shortened link also include slug placeholder like this:
https://meta.discourse.org/t/-/251965/4
I’m pretty sure there used to be issues when linking to the forum from external sites using the shortened link without the slug?
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I’m not aware of these issues.
I remember seeing the formatting without any slug in a piece of official code yesterday or the day before… I don’t remember where but I thought “how, they use the syntax without the /-/ here” which seemed to be a clue that such URLs seem to be fine. 
If you happen to find a link about potential problems, that would be great 
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Thanks!
Either I’m not understanding the issue, or it’s not happening anymore.
Clicking https://meta.discourse.org/t/1 opens the right topic seamlessly and allows you to go back to the previous URL.
No issue either with external links: https://unicyclist.com/t/265354/2608
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That link ia almost 2 years old now. I imagine that may have been fixed up since then.
If you look at the op statement it was more about a post number.
The top link has /1 where as the other just ends in / so no post number in the link
(Share Link Shortener) This link goes to post #1 in this topic.
https://meta.discourse.org/t/251965/1(Share Link Shortener) This link has no post number.
https://meta.discourse.org/t/251965/
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You can add more customization to use external shortlink systems, for example I am currently using yourl source code to set-up a website that supports shortlink is https://agentc.asia/s
I loved so much what you did
but I needed to put an icon next to the date
to signal to users that they can click
How do I put an icon there?
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This suddenly stopped working on my site (to be honest I have no idea when, I don’t use it frequently) but just noticed now it’s not appearing on any of my themes though it’s still enabled on all of them. I know that provides no useful information lol, but any idea?
After upgrading to the latest version of Discourse, I confirm the component doesn’t work anymore.
I’d need to have a look at the recent Discourse commits.
It’s a very simple theme component, so if someone wants to have a look and do a PR, it’s also welcomed.
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This seems like a useful component, so I’ve fixed it and added some updates here:
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The theme component has been updated and is now official.
There’s a new setting as well described in the first post.
I’ve been using Mastodon recently on an instance with limited character numbers, so that might be useful here indeed. 
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Post link : yes, it does.
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Topic link… It triggers a JS error
Thanks for thinking about that @Jagster
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Interesting, kind of. An error opens sharing of iOS instead. Well, not sharing-sharing actually, but this pop-up:
After trying again, it doesn’t trigger any error anymore.
I’m not sure what the issue was.
I don’t know anything about errors, but I get different view, and I don’t know if it should or should not be that way.
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On iOS the post share uses the operating system’s share modal, and the topic share uses the Discourse modal. I’m not 100% sure the reason, but I think it is because the topic share has the invite button as well and we don’t want to lose that?
The JS error is unrelated, I’ll have a fix in soon (fixed in FIX: check is post exists (#2) · discourse/discourse-share-link-shortener@3d31c99 · GitHub).
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How’s androids, windows etc? The main reason for my curiosity is I’m writing helps for my users 