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Actually I'd prefer to go the other way and reduce / remove formatting from the comments altogether. There's too much temptation to work through answers in the comments rather than provide the answer as an actual answer. Comments should be brief and only for clarification. If there's an alternative viewpoint on an answer then why not post it as an alternative answer?
Having said that I'm open to discussing the why's and when's of commenting since this is actually a much bigger discussion
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Chris Maunder
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Sometimes, a solution gives incorrect information, and a rebuttal with a link and/or an example seems to be the best way to highlight that. I don't think that a new solution in that case would be the right thing. A comment pointing to either a reference that gives correct information, or an example that shows why the given solution is incorrect seems preferable to me. If you don't want to go to the full edit/preview, can we at least get a [preview] button, and maybe get pasted links to become clickable?
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I'm more than happy to auto-inlinkerate links. That's an excellent suggestion.
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Chris Maunder
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Small tip from a beginner: It is easy to let format the link by copy/paste into the answer field and cut/paste that into a comment 
It does not solve my Problem, but it answers my question
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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Yes, been doing that for years.
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As you can see, I have no filters set, but the most modern item is nearly a day old.
Compare that to the home page:
And the oldest unanswered item there is just over five hours old:
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We've been swapping our search servers in and out for the last couple of days as we test a new feature. We have, as of about 20 secs ago, settled things down and they should do a crawl within the next few minutes that will get things back up to date.
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Chris Maunder
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Seems to have worked! 
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There still seems to be most of today's QA missing. At this time the questions jump from "yesterday" to "2 Hours 15 minutes ago". I know that a question I responded to was in that block and its gone missing. Are those questions gone for good, or does something need a poke to bring them back?
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It's back:
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Dear Forum,
I wanted to issue a search on this Forum:
- I typed my search string ("C# Equivalent to Java Properties Class").
- The result list showed up.
- I clicked on the appropriate result.
- The forum directed me to the root of the C# subtree of the forum.
This is of course not what I wanted. I wanted to be redirected to the Post.
Strange enough the url actually contains my search string:
C# Equivalent to Java "Properties" Class - C# Discussion Boards[^]
Any hints are greatly appreciated.
Alexander
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I am not able to recreate this issue using Chrome.
What browser and operating system are you using?
Do you have an Ad Blocker or JavaScript disabled?
"Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana."
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Microsoft Edge, No Adblockers and JavaScript enabled.
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The name of the article is "Visual Studio, Why Can't You Just Let Me Have This One (Solution Folder)?"
The link was as sent in today's Daily Build: "https://www.codeproject.com/Article.aspx?tag=1983749115077767098&_z=7440694"
The page that actually opened for me:
"https://www.codeproject.com/script/Common/Error.aspx?errres=ArticleNotFound"
So, somebody there needs to fix the broken link. Maybe do a re-send on today's Daily Build.
Steve
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It looks to have been deleted by the author after it was accepted for publication, don't know why.
The site has no control over that: if an author decides something he wrote is not appropriate for whatever reason, they can "pull it" whenever they want.
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Ticket: (No ticket provided - possibly an error in the error-system)
Error: An error occurred in this page. The error has been recorded and the site administrator informed.
Abort, Retry, Fail?_
Above message occurs when trying to access articles ... has occurred since Friday, April 19, 2019.
Occurs with AOL Browser and Microsoft Edge browser. What gives? Is this my problem? or the Code project problem. I see other with the same problem indicating a system problem.
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See the thread three below this one.
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Looks good! 
Only one little problem: neither button cancels if you edit an existing message ...
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Hmm - the cancel worked for me...
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Strange - it's working for me as well now.
Put it down to "quantum weirdness" and see if it happens again?
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The ol' Heisenbug
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Chris Maunder
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This will probably get some backs up, but ... I like the new location for the "member" report flag: it's consistent!
Perhaps the report flag for articles could be in exactly the same place? Just thinking it would be consistent across the site then - I've got used to moving the mouse up to the right, and it seems sensible to harmonise the location, is all ...
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This is weird: I get real problems trying to get at any forum (including the lounge, S&A, Sugs&Bugs, C#, …) - but only on Chrome.
If I try to open the same page in Chrome and Execrable Edge then it opens every time in Edge, but I get a "no ticket" error in Chrome after a couple of minutes. But the Homepage opens, QA opens, forums don't.
Been happening for a few hours - I can't try CTRL+F5 because the page never comes up, it just refreshes the error page.
I've shut down Chrome, I've shut down Windows - no change.
Google Chrome is up to date
Version 73.0.3683.103 (Official Build) (64-bit)
Microsoft Edge 42.17134.1.0
Microsoft EdgeHTML 17.17134
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Yeah - I had one this morning, and since then it's been fine.
I'm guessing at a cookie problem that has worked it's way out of the system?
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