Mastodon: Clicking a URL of a toot should open the toot in the search area

[Cassolotl]

Clicking the URL of a toot like here:

... currently opens that URL in a new tab.

It should put the URL into the search box and bring up the toot in the search results, like this:

At the moment you have to copy and paste toot URLs from toots into the search box in order to repost, reply, interact in any way. I think it could be cool if this process was somewhat automated.

Thanks!

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• [x] I searched or browsed the repo’s other issues to ensure this is not a duplicate.
• [ ] This bug happens on a tagged release and not on master (If you're a user, don't worry about this).

[Cassolotl]

How do you get the little checkbox at the bottom of these issues to show as a tick/checkmark? I don't know how so I usually just end up writing "yes"!

[codl]

[x] is how you check those

would mastodon even be able to know which urls point to statuses

[Cassolotl]

@codl Thank you, re: x!

[expenses]

Would an appropriate solution be to Oembed the toot?

[PubliqPhirm]

@expenses That's one of the things that was brought up on the issue Cass listed. Quote boosts should be straightforward and purely client-side with OEmbed.

[vibhi19]

Quote boosts

This will not be added sadly so this is the only solution right now

[vibhi19]

@Gargron We need this make it possible it in 2.8

[trwnh]

i'd prefer to have this in the context column rather than in the search results -- in other words, it should fetch the toot if it exists and show it in the far right column with the available replies below it.