posting links to other posts

I was trying to add an index to the first post of my long thread. When I copy a link to a post and paste the link, the site software embeds a significant portion of the linked post, not just a clickable link. This adds significant clutter. Am I doing something wrong.

example: I want to link to this post

 
Click the share icon in the top right of a post (3 circles connected by two lines), then the copy-to-clipboard icon (two clipboards stacked on top of each other). That's the correct way to copy the link to a specific post.

Never copy a URL that has a page number mentioned, for example by copying it from your browser URL bar. It can be different for any user depending on how many posts per page they have chosen to see.

Eg: https://www.diyaudio.com/community/threads/posting-links-to-other-posts.419685/
 
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HA! If that's what that icon is supposed to do it's badly broken. When I clicked on it from on of Marco_gea's posts, pasted it in the post right above this one, clicking on it not only didn't bring me to his post it brought me to a different page. But at least I now know not to skip a line when pasting links in posts.
 
I can see that link did not come from the three legged sharing icon, because the link shows a page number. Page numbers are worked out after the server checks your settings, so you shouldn't share those links with others.

BTW, sorry if I misunderstood that you had this problem on another site. In any case this forum software is used on many sites.