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!

  • @chaoraceOPEnglish
    5•1 year ago

    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.

    • SanguineParEnglish
      6•1 year ago

      Still crashing, sadly. I’m sure it’s Jerboa though. It’ll get sorted at some point, thanks anyway :-)

      • @chaoraceOPEnglish
        6•1 year ago

        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.

        • SanguineParEnglish
          5•1 year ago

          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.