Links to full reviews?

[iconogassed]

Can we no longer add links to full reviews? More importantly, were existing links to full reviews just vaporized?

The latter is a pretty big deal. I for one certainly wouldn't have written/edited the relevant mini-reviews in the way I did without the link to the full review. If the review was just a mini-review, it would have been entirely different. As it stands now, there are just outright non-sequiturs in reviews that used to have a link to the necessary context.

[mpowell]

Nothing has been wiped out, though you're right that the ability to link to Full Reviews is no longer present.

We have a bug filed to add this back in -- it's a feature which not a lot of people used, and we're still chatting about how best to re-implement (perhaps simply allowing full reviews directly from the regular review modal itself).

But yeah, don't worry -- no data has been removed, and we do plan on reimplementing this again soon.

[iconogassed]

That no "data"--meaning the URL of the full review?--has been deleted is academic. Effectively, the links have been vaporized. There is no practical difference between the links having been vaporized and the links having been merely rendered invisible. The effect is identical and the issues I described are present just the same.

[djross]

Any chance that links to full reviews will be restored soon?

[mpowell]

This is something we're looking into how best to re-implement. In its previous iteration, this wasn't functionality that was used very often, so we want to think carefully about how to re-introduce this in a way that more people will find useful.

That said, we do want to restore the links that already exist, knowing that full-length reviews was something people had spent a lot of time on. When we do that, we'll update here.