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0 pointsnicksergeant2y ago0 comments

That does indeed work! Fascinating.

Now I'm endlessly curious as to why I've never gotten a correctly located link from many designers in several orgs. It is, however, sufficiently buried that I think most designers just copy the browser URL and call it a day.

I honestly can't remember a single time I've gotten a targeted Figma link like this from a designer.

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kamikaz1k2y ago

Because people will delete and create new modes as they iterate so those hash links become stale. So while the person who replied to you is technically correct, effectively it is still very unstable.

pfranz2y ago

Similarly, on pages like GitLab you can link to specific line(s) of code in a file...but it often is the head of that branch. The URL will resolve in the future, but its pretty common that the chunk of code has moved.

I wish it was easy to grab a URL for that specific version, with a banner at the top saying it's not the newest version of the code (something I sometimes see with documentation). I don't see why Figma couldn't do this, too.

Towaway692y ago

> Similarly, on pages like GitLab you can link to specific line(s) of code in a file...but it often is the head of that branch. The URL will resolve in the future, but its pretty common that the chunk of code has moved.

On GitHub you can hit the 'y' key[1] and it will add the revision into the URL.

GitLab will most probably have something similar.

[1]=https://docs.github.com/en/get-started/accessibility/keyboar...

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andsoitis2y ago

To be fair, you didn't figure it out either so one could consider this a feature discoverability issue.

I didn't know either, but plan to share with my coworkers!

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