question!

[nonheinous.livejournal.com]

How do you make the 'From here' and 'To here' tags without entering into a catch-22 trap?

Say I start at place X and want to move to Y; so I make a post at X and end off with 'To ...', but I won't be able to know the exact link until I actually make the post at Y.

But I can't know the link to use under 'From ...' in the post at Y if I haven't made the post at X.

Yet I've seen so many people manage this without editing... how do you guys do it?

Thanks!

Comments

[ryuuzaki]

I usually do what gald_digger said, although sometimes I edit my posts to add the link (since I edit a lot anyway).

The way I do the "From here" that makes that feasible is to always link to the *first* post of every thread, not the last one. Linking to the last one or linking to the top post (but not the individual thread) makes it really difficult to backtrack/stalk/etc. If you link to the last comment in the previous thread instead of the first, you have to hit "parent" a lot to find the top of the thread if you're trying to read it (and it also doesn't work with the technique mentioned by gald_digger), and if you link only to the top post instead of to your own thread within it... well, some locations get 2-3 pages of posts, so it can make that thread harder to find. :)