pfaffman
September 27, 2016, 11:28pm
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Easier is to middle-click or otherwise open the link in a new tab/window. It does require that the person clicking the link know to do that, though. You can also reload the page and have it work.
It’s a known problem, and low priority:
https://meta.discourse.org/t/bug-raw-links-generate-error-and-require-reloading/44084
A link to a raw version of a post in the post itself doesn’t work at first. Only when you open it in a new tab or reload the not found page it will show.
To reproduce:
Reply to a post or create a new topic
Get the raw link of that post
Edit the post to put the raw link to itself in it
Click the link
Expected result: you go to the raw version of said post
Actual result: page is not found. Reload and you get the raw version. Or open in a new tab/window.
Let’s try it out here as well. This is…