Hotlinked Dates

November 26, 2006 6:08 PM

PonyRequest: Can the dates at the top of threads be hotlinked? Example: I would like to be able to click on "October 4, 2002" at the top of this thread to see all the posts from this day.
posted by blue_beetle to Feature Requests at 6:08 PM (14 comments total)

I would feed that pony a carrot.

Pretty, pretty pony.
posted by mr_crash_davis at 6:23 PM on November 26, 2006

That doesn't seem intuitive to me. Normally, there's a descriptive title there, it's only on old stuff that the date is shown all big like that.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 6:32 PM on November 26, 2006

I like this idea.
posted by interrobang at 6:51 PM on November 26, 2006

It describes itself when clicked. I don't see any reason not to do this.
posted by 31d1 at 7:54 PM on November 26, 2006

Anywhere there's a date that is. I mean. Ya know.
posted by 31d1 at 7:55 PM on November 26, 2006

Breadcrumbs would be a better, consistent solution. That I would very much like to see, navigationally speaking.
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 8:10 PM on November 26, 2006

In other words (for those who don't know what I mean), for example

2002 > October > 5

But Matt's arcane archives architecture would seem to preclude it.
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 8:14 PM on November 26, 2006

That makes sense, blue_beetle. So it'll never happen.
posted by Eideteker at 8:46 PM on November 26, 2006

I don't think you know what the word "hotlink" means.
posted by delmoi at 9:39 PM on November 26, 2006

I don't think you know what the word "hotlink" means.

Hmmm, the OED defines it as a synonym for hyperlink, and gives its first use in 1989. It's hard to imagine that whatever other meaning you are talking about existed then.
posted by grouse at 2:25 AM on November 27, 2006

He's thinking of IHOP's new HOTLINKS Spicy Sausages™, for a limited time only.
posted by Eideteker at 5:41 AM on November 27, 2006

Hmmm, the OED defines it as a synonym for hyperlink, and gives its first use in 1989. It's hard to imagine that whatever other meaning you are talking about existed then.

Hotlink.
posted by teleskiving at 6:41 AM on November 27, 2006

Yeah, I know the other meaning of hotlink. My point is that it's not correct (or polite, really) to tell someone they don't know what a word means when they are using a meaning that has been in use for many more years.
posted by grouse at 7:16 AM on November 27, 2006

My point is that it's not correct (or polite, really) to tell someone they don't know what a word means when they are using a meaning that has been in use for many more years.
posted by grouse

Yeah--you start doing that and the next thing you know, we'll be deriding each other over spelling and grammar.
posted by leftcoastbob at 8:47 AM on November 27, 2006