permafrost

[shacker]

Seems that permalinks are 'pert near a standard feature in every blogging system but LJ. Part of the reason for that is that LJ is day-based rather than post-based, so you can't have a permalink attached to each post. But you can hack in a link to your day pages fairly easily.

Comments

[grahams]

what is a permalink.

[grahams]

strike that period and make it a question mark. :P

[shacker]

If you look at www.boingboing.net, for example, each post has a "permanent link" link under it, so you can send out or bookmark a link to the post that won't scroll off the page and get lost. blogger posts have these, as do greymatter blogs, movable type blogs, etc.

In LJ, with the default setup, you can only get to these by jumping through the calendar and from there to the day page.

[grahams]

It seems to me the usefulness of this (which I think is little in a journal-oriented system like LJ) is being able to link to a particular posting, which LJ allows you to do using the "Read Comments" link from your "Latest"/LastN page (www.livejournal.com/~shacker/).. If your gripe is that the link will take you to a different style, the new style system will take care of that (assuming it goes live this century).

I don't see the advantage of this permalink nonsense (when really, it's just a damn link, and does nothing special to require a yet another new word (as if weblog isn't enough)).

[alexmoskalyuk]

Isn't that it? http://www.livejournal.com/talkread.bml?journal=shacker&itemid=127047

[shacker]

Yes, although that's the page in the generic LJ template, not your personal template. So I guess you could just consider the Comments link a sort of generic permalink, albeit sort of inelegant.