Why YSK: right now, Lemmy’s autocomplete for the !community syntax isn’t working correctly.
It will appear to work, like so:
But the link produced will redirect you away from your home instance and leave you unable to vote/subscribe…
To fix this issue, you’ll need to manually edit the autocompleted link like so:
BAD LINK: [!youshouldknow@lemmy.world](https://lemmy.world/c/youshouldknow)
⬇️⬇️⬇️ Remove the domain (i.e.: https://lemmy.world) & append the @ identifier (i.e.: @lemmy.world)
GOOD LINK: [!youshouldknow@lemmy.world](/c/youshouldknow@lemmy.world)
Removing the domain like this transforms it into a local link which prevents the instance redirection. Doing this will make it easier for newcomers to join your community and participate in discussions!
Those interested can monitor Github issues #369 & #1048 for when this UI bug is fixed!
Hi - just FYI, the Good link makes the app Jerboa crash (for me at least). Probably something needing changed in the app, but wanted to share anyway.
This issue should be fixed now in the edited version of my post. I made a rather silly mistake in the original version that @justin@sh.itjust.works helped me solve.Still crashing, sadly. I’m sure it’s Jerboa though. It’ll get sorted at some point, thanks anyway :-)
Bummer… looks like this is indeed a Jerboa issue (Github #556). Hopefully that gets resolved soon so we can have links that reliably work on every frontend.
Yeah that’d be great.
Thanks for checking GitHub, I can’t really find my way around on there. Good that it’s a known issue at least.