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    How could I have missed that. :) Commented May 22, 2009 at 16:02
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    I just noticed that too, that the "share" to social networking sites AND the "link" text are all rolled up into the "share" text. It used to look like this meta.stackexchange.com/a/101026/160875 Not sure how I missed that either! Commented Oct 6, 2012 at 10:45
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    "link" would be clearer. I wonder how many views this page has had since the change. Commented Jul 3, 2013 at 0:36
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    agreed. I came here because I thought "share" would take me to some social networking site. "link" would be much more accurate. Commented Jul 16, 2014 at 16:23
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    The problem is with longer answers. Looking for a link we would expect to find it high, at the top of the answer. But the "share" control is at the bottom of the answer. For a one-liner like in the example, it is intuitive. But for a 100-liner, it is not. Commented Feb 18, 2015 at 22:44
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    @DouglasHeld +1 Man, that’s dismal for discoverability. Commented Dec 30, 2015 at 16:49
  • Like this? meta.stackexchange.com/a/45598/250904 : ) Commented May 17, 2016 at 9:24
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    The URL created by the share button also includes your UserId. You can safely remove this if you don't want your Id to be shared. Commented Feb 16, 2017 at 19:48
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    "share edit flag"; top or bottom; link or share: The implemented solution seems "good enough"; it hasn't been changed; the community seems to be getting used to it, even if it is an oddity. On the other hand, this remains difficult to find, until learning about the oddity. FWIW. Commented Jun 18, 2018 at 15:09
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    Stackoverflow, are you listening? THIS IS BAD UI EXPERIENCE Commented Nov 20, 2018 at 17:07
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    how should we refer to a person who answered a question? It seems it is not still possible in stackoverflow? @username does not work! Commented Mar 27, 2020 at 12:39
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    Unless I am missing something obvious, as of today there is no "share" button anymore. Is that some kind of a flaw or an intentional design change? Commented May 14, 2022 at 15:11
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    @PeterBašista Do you have an adblocker active? I noticed the same as you, but when I disabled ublock origin and refreshed the page the 'share' link reappeared. Commented May 15, 2022 at 10:12
  • @aSemy Thank you for the insight, you are right. It was blocked by uBlock Origin in my case as well. I am wondering why. Is it possible that it has some embedded trackers or something similar which would cause uBlock Origin to block it? Commented May 16, 2022 at 11:53
  • The blocking of the "Share" button is caused by the "cosmetic filtering" feature of uBlock Origin. It seems like it does not consider this button as malicious. Probably a mere fact that it is called "Share" causes this filtering mechanism to hide it. Commented May 16, 2022 at 12:11