PSA: How to link users & communities so it doesn't break for other instances
PSA: How to link users & communities so it doesn't break for other instances
Hi all!
So, I'm assuming everyone has seen links like https://beehaw.org/c/news and clicked through to find it doesn't work right because it's a different site (I'm assuming a different instance here).
Well, I just stumbled across an interesting feature: if you enter a link in the following format, it works for everyone regardless of instance of origin:
[News](/c/[email protected])
[My User](/u/[email protected])
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There are an irksome number of ways to express a community:
- [email protected]
- https://lemmy.ml/c/lemmy
- /c/[email protected]
- Is that all of them?
The one that gets advertised in the sidebar is [email protected]. I'd love to see a canonical format established that has a superset of the useful behaviors of the non-canonical representations.
Edit: Most of those don't get hotlinked automatically. Does a bang-prefixed link do anything useful (no it doesn't)? And you pointed out c-prefixed does get hotlinked and work.
Edit2: As commenters below note, the behavior varies between web-ui and jerboa. 🤮
Can confirm bang-prefixed is broken, c-prefixed works. At least from the website UI.
https://lemmy.ml/c/lemmy is the only on that works for me on Jerboa. Even then it kicks me over to Firefox. Cc [email protected]
@lemmy
[@]lemmy[@]lemmy[.]mlIncidentally, this is how you'd find and follow it from, say, Mastodon or Calckey.