Full URL links to communities appear to open fine - even if the instance isn't aware of that community (hurray! thank you for this, it's ace!)
However, links with exclamation marks seem to try to open a user.
I'm going to try putting one in here, but I'm posting from kbin so it might go a bit weird or not exhibit the same problem. !lemmings
Ah, that worked. "API error: couldn't find object"
The exclamation mark didn't get highlighted.
It didn't appear to try to open as a user though.
Maybe this is a slightly different problem, caused by that link being a Kbin magazine - and it's trying to open it as /c/ instead of /m/ ?
It seems like the link you provided works just Like intended, altho I definerly have seen that bug. I think it was at a link sth like this one (links with ! and @): [email protected]
I also remember that this worked at a point, but it doesn't anymore. It's always the format with the ! exclamation point in front.
@[email protected]
If you are looking for examples, basically all links in
https://lemmy.world/c/newcommunities don't work.
They're in the format
Most links have been working fine for me recently, although I still occasionally see this error. However, it appears that links to kbin magazines don't work at all. I suspect Connect is searching for server/c/community and not retrying with server/m/community when it gets an error back.
Do you have an example of a working link? Because all ! links don't work for me currently. I always get the 'user not found' Page, so it interprets them without the !