When 0.18 started rolling out, I read that all Lemmy links would become universal, that you only need to start typing and it’ll auto fill a proper link, which will also work on instances where it’s not discovered.
But I’m not seeing anything? When I type !communityname, it still creates just the https link, which kicks you out of your instance. And to make a universal /c/ link, I still need to edit it manually. I’m not seeing autofill for c/ or /c/…
Also, if I do make a /c/ link, it still gives a 404 if your instance hasn’t discovered it yet.
So am I missing something, or did everything stay the same? (Or only on lemmy.world?)
Speaking of which, is it possible to make a universal link for a post?
I was working on a list of health communities and ran out of space. If I could remove half the links and all would still work, that would help. Never mind adding new links.
What does the actual link look like, that takes you to a community it couldn’t find?
For example https://vlemmy.net/c/starwarstelevision@lemmy.world shows this
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I’ve tried on a couple different instances. I was testing on links from my sidebar at !starwarsmemes@lemmy.world which are all in the format you suggested. Communities that are discovered work ok. Btw no difference even if I’m browsing as a logged in user.
https://lemmy.wtf/c/starwarstelevision@lemmy.worldworks fine for me via my instance lemmy.wtf and I don’t think anyone from lemmy.wtf is subscribed to it.But it shows content, so somebody probably is/was.
Or maybe the difference is between 0.18 and 0.18.1.
Ok nvm. I’ll try to catch the devs on Matrix. Thanks.