SMF hyperlink to topic number instead of the full thread url?

[Wellwisher]

How do you hyperlink to just the topic number instead of the thread url? Is this even possible?

eg:

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[url=?topic,300.0]This cats thread is awesome[/url]

[Wellwisher]

nvm solved it:

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[url=?action=;topic=300.0]This cats thread is awesome[/url]

[Arantor]

?topic= works just fine (needs the = part) though I'm guessing you're using the "friendly" URLs? (Which no search engine has needed in a decade...)

[Wellwisher]

?topic= works just fine (needs the = part) though I'm guessing you're using the "friendly" URLs? (Which no search engine has needed in a decade...)

Thanks, good tip. You mean Pretty URLs mod? No, this was merely to make sure when I donate one my databases to our community members, our "about-project" section links to the correct articles. I know it will by default but just in case. 

[Arantor]

No, I mean the topic,300.0.html thing, an SMF feature that should have been removed a long time ago as it causes problems.

[Wellwisher]

No, I mean the topic,300.0.html thing, an SMF feature that should have been removed a long time ago as it causes problems.

I never noticed it before, thus didn't know there was an option to turn that off. Seems like google's only ever indexed topic numbers rather than topic.html. Where can I read more about the problems of leaving this option on vs having this off? Does having it off make smf quicker? xD