GOODBYE RELATIVE LINKS!!!
Why YSK: Sometimes, on Lemmy, links will take you off-instance, and show you content without displaying it through your instance. This prevents you from easily interacting with the content, voting or commenting or even just subscribing.
Going forward, to link communities it is now enough to simply write the name of a community/magazine in the !name@instan.ce format, and lemmy will convert that into a clickable local link for each users instance, so they never get taken off-instance in a manner especially confusing to new users.
Examples:
If you are on an instance now running 0.18.0, you’ll see four clickable links. These are not relative markdown links, I simply wrote the name of the communities in plain-text.
Woo hoo! Will this also help between Kbin and Lemmy?
Yes, it works with kbin mags too, from lemmy.
Kbin would have to be updated, too, to be able to do the same thing.
If you want to see it in action before your instance is on 0.18.0, here’s a hardcoded link to view this post on an instance that’s already on 0.18.0 right now: https://sh.itjust.works/post/374636
Lol shit, today I spent an hour converting a list of links.
But won’t this cause issues if the community you’re linking to isn’t synced to my instance yet? So far, that would just get you a 404. Or has this changed too?
This is awesome. It’s going to help adoption so much.
Could you please add a “Why YSK:”? It’s rule #2. :)
