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.: ) .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!
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.