The discussion revolves around the purpose and usability of the warning for duplicate links on the forum. ganncamp questions the intent behind the warning, wondering if it’s meant to prevent redundant posts or consolidate credit for clickthroughs. Slowhand supports the feature, finding it useful for avoiding duplicate news articles. Canapin agrees it’s often more annoying than helpful, especially when internal links trigger the warning, and requests a toggle to disable it. JammyDodger offers a CSS workaround to hide the pop-up, noting it doesn’t affect other similar warnings.
I get warnings like this occasionally:
For a long time now, I’ve just dismissed them and gone on with my life.
Today I finally asked myself ‘Why?’. What is this warning intended to accomplish? Are you trying to make the point that if the user didn’t read the docs the first time I linked them, he’s not likely to now?
Is this about consolidating “credit” for clickthroughs to one user/post for badge collection?
Something else?
I can tell you that, for our forum, we post news articles and it’s extremely helpful to get that pop-up so that we’re not reposting news someone else has posted.
Just my two cents.
I wonder what the chances are of getting a toggle to turn this off…
I do not encounter @Slowhand’s issue and behavior on my forum, and we often refer to our forums internally by their URLs, which triggers the warning every time.
In the vast majority of these triggers I encounter (and I’m quite confident that this is the same for my communities’ users), it’s more annoying than helping. I’d like very much to have a setting to disable this warning too.
I’ve been having a little play, and it can be hidden with a bit of CSS for a short term fix:
.composer-popup.custom-body {
display: none;
}
I checked it against the ‘Your Topic is Similar to’ pop-up, and that one still appears as it has its own class, but I don’t know how many pop-ups are included in custom-body? I mainly use my mobile, so I don’t see these very often. 