People need to realize you can use alternatives
this post was submitted on 10 Jun 2023
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FWIW, on a browser the /c/technology link you posted isn’t a hyperlink, so I can’t actually interact with it. It doesn’t work in mlem either.
For now, as a workaround, you can manually make it a hyperlink: /c/technology@beehaw.org
Just use
[/c/technology@beehaw.org](/c/technology@beehaw.org). This should open correctly on all instances.Maybe a pull request can be made to change the auto fill behaviour. At least in the browser, start typing
!technologyand it will display a list of the technology communities. Unfortunately, selecting one, !technology@beehaw.org for example, autofills to[!technology@beehaw.org](https://beehaw.org/c/technology). This method opens up the Beehaw instance directly.Maybe it should autofill !technology@beehaw.org to
[!technology@beehaw.org](/c/technology@beehaw.org). This method opens the community through your current instance.Seems like line 703 of https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/blob/main/src/shared/utils.ts#L703 is the relevant code. I'm away for the weekend so can't do much myself at the moment
Yeah. A shorter-term solution might be a browser plugin that recognizes links like that and converts it to a hyperlink to that community on whatever instance you tell it. I'm not a programmer but that does seem like a relatively simple plugin for somebody that actually knows what they're doing.
Yeah, I’m sure we’ll eventually get apps and such that handle it better.