• @[email protected]
          4•2 years ago

          Oh boy lol. Lemmys growing pains. Perhaps it’s because you’re using kbin? I don’t know, but I can confirm that the link I posted works great on Lemmy web and some android apps with proper link handling.

        • Cosmic Cleric
          2•2 years ago

          That’s not a url. You should try using the search option and put that in there instead.

          • @thimantha
            3•2 years ago

            It acts as a URL in most mobile apps and the website.

            • Cosmic Cleric
              1•2 years ago

              Ok, it acts like a URL, but it is not a URL. It does not have the proper URL prefix.

              A 404 error is what you get with a bad URL.

              • @thimantha
                1•2 years ago

                You won’t get a 404 if you’re using the webapp, or on most mobile apps. For instance, I’m on Voyager and the subreddit link works fine upon clicking. No need to copy and paste it to the search.

                • Cosmic Cleric
                  1•2 years ago

                  I’m aware. I’m just repeating the error message they said they got, which was a 404.

    • Lore
      6•2 years ago

      Thanks! Kind of annoying that this is required just now, either there’s an easier way that I’m just too dumb to see - or I imagine this process will be made easier in future (hopefully near) :D

      • @Ludo
        6•2 years ago

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      • @capr
        5•2 years ago

        I imagine some sort of autocomplete feature could be made which provides a dropdown menu of communities and instances based on what you type after “/c/”.

        • @amanaftermidnight
          7•2 years ago

          It exists! It gets triggered when you start typing exclamation mark followed by a few characters. A long popup list appeared with communities your home instant knows of.

          And this is with the stock web ui. If you’re using an app then it’s up to the developer of that app.

          • @capr
            1•2 years ago

            Why not trigger it when someone types “/c/”. Using an exclamation mark isn’t intuitive.

            • kopper [they/them]English
              1•2 years ago

              /c/ (and kbin’s /m/) is an implementation detail, the “real” community names all start with !

              well, technically they’re just fancy user accounts which means they start with @, but that’s even more obscure an implementation detail, especially with lemmy allowing both a user and community to have the same name