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Comment author: RobinZ 05 May 2010 09:30:53PM 0 points [-]

Usually the way these work is that any page which would include a specific comment fail with an error message. The "before 1yyu" page should show more recent comments than the broken one - if the most recent comments in the sidebar don't appear on that page, replace the "1yyu" at the end of the string with the identifier of a more recent comment or see if the plain old "Recent Comments" page has fixed itself.

Comment author: NancyLebovitz 05 May 2010 09:37:54PM *  0 points [-]

What's the coding system for urls for the recent comments pages? Why "1yyu"?

Comment author: RobinZ 05 May 2010 09:39:38PM *  1 point [-]

I don't know.

Edit: Wait, I misread your comment as a question about the codebase. I'll tell you what I know:

  • "1yyu" is the serial number of a particular comment - the broken one. Every comment has a serial number in lowercase base 36. You can find these serial numbers by examining the Permalink URLs - for example, your question about the coding system is 1yzf.
  • The URLs for navigation in the "Recent Comments" page by the "next" and "prev" buttons work by placing a query string at the end of the URL with at least two possible parameters (separated by an ampersand - "&"): "count" and "after" or "before".
  • "count=50" specifies 50 comments per page.
  • "after=t1_1yyu" specifies that comments start with the comment after 1yyu in reverse chronological order - 1yyt. "before=t1_1yyu" specifies that the comments end with the comment before 1yyu in reverse chronological order - 1yyv.

That's most of what I know about the syntax - I'm not sure how much control you can exercise over the number of comment shown, for example. I know you get more with count=50 than without any such indicator.

Comment author: byrnema 05 May 2010 09:49:18PM 1 point [-]

This is a link that works. This is the broken link. This is a link that doesn't exist.

Comment author: RobinZ 05 May 2010 09:55:49PM 0 points [-]

...!

That's got to be the comment! Apparently it doesn't break the comments page here, though - that's quite strange.

Comment author: byrnema 05 May 2010 10:48:14PM 1 point [-]

...!

I didn't find that comment -- you did! I was replying to your parent post in which you told us that was a broken link.

That's got to be the comment!

I don't think it's the comment. I think it's old. Since you discovered that 1yyu was broken, didn't the Recent Comments work for a while? If so, we have a new broken link.

Apparently it doesn't break the comments page here, though - that's quite strange.

A link to a broken link is OK. What you can't have is the broken link in Recent Comments, because the Recent Comments page wouldn't be able to bring it up and show it.

Comment author: RobinZ 06 May 2010 11:43:48PM 0 points [-]

Oh - it gives the same error appended to any thread.

Comment author: RobinZ 06 May 2010 12:00:54AM 0 points [-]

It wouldn't be an old comment - not with that serial number on this thread. I don't know what's going on, now.

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