Make comment links from within issue or merge request more intuitive

Description

Frequently in an issue or a merge request with many comments, it can be helpful to refer back to what another contributor commented. One way we do that now is by pasting a link to their specific comment (by hovering over the time stamp of their comment and right clicking "copy link" - at least, that's how I do it). The link that is created is of the form # issue_number (comment SHA_of_comment). I'd like for the link to be of a more helpful format.

Proposal

I would like to be able to find the comment based on the link, without clicking on the link.

• One way to do that would be for the link to show issue number and time, provided the time stamp is listed in each comment header.
• Another would be to number comments in issues and merge requests so that the comment number can be shown.
• If the comment is within the same issue, I'd lobby to omit the issue number from the link since I'm not always aware of what issue number I'm working in (should I be?).