Simple HN feature request: link to parent story from individual comment pages
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Would love this. Also useful for when someone directly links to another comment on HN, and you want to pull up and get the context.
/threads has it. it's called, on: <root title> - shouldn't be a lot of work to put it into each comment...
I think these type of links are generally labelled "top"
"original post"? "story"? "first parent"?
Top is usually used for the top of the page you're on, which happens to correspond to the OP in many cases.
Top is usually used for the top of the page you're on, which happens to correspond to the OP in many cases.
As noted (currently below) in the reply by aditya, on this site page titles are shown for the link to the original submission. That would be most user-friendly, to be parallel with other behavior on this site.
Agreed, because when I hit "reply", I sometimes write something, then want to reference the parent post (especially on a Ask HN post), and have to copy my text, go back, read, re-find the comment, reply again, paste. Yucko. Just a link to the parent that I can center-click to open in a new tab would be an improvement.
Sounds great. I'd love a feature like that.
Could we get a "root parent" link there, in addition to the already-existing "parent" link?
EDIT: djg suggests "top" is a better name and it sounds good to me too.