[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #29462: comment pagination in reverse order should display a full number of the latest comments

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#29462: comment pagination in reverse order should display a full number of the
latest comments
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 Reporter:  mark-k        |       Owner:  obenland
     Type:  defect (bug)  |      Status:  assigned
 Priority:  normal        |   Milestone:  Future Release
Component:  Comments      |     Version:  3.9
 Severity:  normal        |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  needs-patch   |     Focuses:
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Comment (by mark-k):

 Replying to [comment:17 boonebgorges]:
 > Replying to [comment:16 mark-k]:
 >
 > > 1. Who cares about backward compatibility here?
 > >
 > > 2. The permalink are still there, they are not going anywhere, it is
 just the content that changes
 >
 > The fact that content changes is exactly the problem. If I leave a blog
 comment, I should be able to use the permalink of that comment to refer
 back to that comment at any time: through a link on my own site, through a
 link I send someone in an email, through a browser bookmark, etc.

 ok, now I understand the issue, but

 1. My first point stands, it was such a visually broken feature I can't
 imagine anyone using it at all, so whatever backward compatibility will be
 broken by a change will not have any real life effect.

 2. And the specific issue is links to comments? How rare is that in
 general?

 3. This discussion really highlights that comments do not have a
 permalink. A permalink should always lead to a specific content. no matter
 how content is displayed, but right now the permalinks of paginated
 comments depend on the number of comments displayed at each page which is
 an easy configuration change away which do not warn the user that the in-
 bound comment links will be broken by that.
 Comment permalink should probably be  a proper one - <site url>/<post
 slug>/comment/<comment number> and let wordpress figure out how many
 comments and which should be displayed with the requested comment (or use
 the hash notation which works when all comments are displayed with the
 post).

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