It’s confusing for new users, and this instance in particular has 7k users but no interactions. It’s a bot army, with the top user being called @admin.
Interesting, so a bare “@admin” will link to whatever user has that name on your local instance? That should probably be a bug, I could type “@falafel” or whatever and end up linking to completely different people based on whatever instance someone happens to be reading from. Maybe giving all those people mention notifications, too.
I’m actually working on the problem now. It’s a tricky one to solve. There’s no context about who that user is, like at all. So we either don’t link any users. Or do a best effort.
Personally, I would think either default to the same instance as the person who’s comment it is, or just don’t link it at all since it’s an incomplete address. Like failing to include the “.social” part of the “https://kbin” URL, it’s just a broken thing.
Not actually a bad shout. When a local user submits we can fully qualify the handle if it’s short. Remote posts without a fully qualified won’t be able to be linked.
Interesting, so a bare “@admin” will link to whatever user has that name on your local instance? That should probably be a bug, I could type “@falafel” or whatever and end up linking to completely different people based on whatever instance someone happens to be reading from. Maybe giving all those people mention notifications, too.
I’m actually working on the problem now. It’s a tricky one to solve. There’s no context about who that user is, like at all. So we either don’t link any users. Or do a best effort.
Personally, I would think either default to the same instance as the person who’s comment it is, or just don’t link it at all since it’s an incomplete address. Like failing to include the “.social” part of the “https://kbin” URL, it’s just a broken thing.
Not actually a bad shout. When a local user submits we can fully qualify the handle if it’s short. Remote posts without a fully qualified won’t be able to be linked.
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