<h2 id="december-2018">
  December 2018
  <span id="authors">by @Bauke</span>
</h2>

### Topic Ownership

On December 18th, Deimos posted a topic to discuss potential site mechanics of topics and who owns them that gained a wild variety of responses that's worth checking out if you haven't already: [click here to read it](https://tild.es/989).

### Shortlinks

Something that has been planned [for quite a while](https://tild.es/15m) has been added on December 22nd. Shortlinks!

You can now share topics via the shortlink that is available in the sidebar of topics, [over here](https://i.imgur.com/upYnLhY.png). The shortlinks are just `https://tild.es/topic ID` where `topic ID` are the 3 characters of a topic's URL. So `https://tildes.net/~tildes.official/9au` becomes `https://tild.es/9au`.

More options like linking to specific comments, users and other stuff is planned, don't worry!