For example, this comment links to another community on another instance, but when clicked on, you’re not actually able to interact with anything on that community, because you’re suddenly not logged in.

It’s doesn’t function like linking to a subreddit, and I understand that that’s because of federation, but is there a better way of doing this? It seems… very stupid that linking to a page would suddenly “log you out” for all intents and purposes, while searching that same community wouldn’t.

Does this make sense?

    • @[email protected]
      9•2 years ago

      I don’t think so. I’m on 0.18 and links to posts and comments still go to the linked instance.

      However COMMUNITY linking is working great! Clicking on a link to a community on a different instance keeps you on your own instance :)

      • MentalEdge
        2•2 years ago

        There is no way to locally link to a specific post or comment.

          • maegul (he/they)
            2•2 years ago

            What is in my post is what the UI’s autocomplete provided. If it’s problematic or wrong, you should probably report a bug to the UI repo (I don’t know the details about these links).

            • TWeaK
              2•2 years ago

              I just checked on sh.itjust.works, the only other instance I’m on that is on 0.18 yet, and your link works there. Edit: However the source of your link, made on 0.18, is different to my link on 0.17.4.

              Yours: Sounds like a big or missing feature. You might want to write it up on GitHub if you can or the [!lemmy@lemmy.ml](https://lemmy.ml/c/lemmy) community.

              Mine: The new version should just let you type [email protected] and automagically make it instance agnostic.

              It looks like 0.18 creates an actual link in your comment when you make it, as a fall back for older versions, however that link is not agnostic. However if you view an old comment in 0.18 it will make an agnostic link for you, in spite of the old source. 0.18 apparently ignores the source in the comment where the link is not agnostic and just makes its own agnostic link out of the displayed text.

              So maybe it would be better if 0.18 made a link like [[email protected]](/c/lemmy@lemmy.ml) to ensure full compatibility.

              • maegul (he/they)
                2•2 years ago

                Coupled with the new rendering of links, into what I believe are instance agnostic formats for 0.18, the system seems it will to work well.

                • TWeaK
                  2•2 years ago

                  I dug deeper and made a few edits lol it’s not quite perfect. More than anything I don’t get why it creates a non-agnostic link in the source.

                  • TWeaK
                    1•2 years ago

                    Test: [email protected]

                    Edit: [email protected]

                    Yep, that happens when you select it from the dropdown box. So it’s the dropdown box that is making non-agnostic links to the host, however 0.18 ignores this and makes an agnostic link based on the text.

            • TWeaK
              2•2 years ago

              I think maybe because my instance is still on 0.17.4 the !comm@instance type of link doesn’t work. /c/ and /u/ did work on the old versions though, you just had to make them manually.

              So there’d be no point reporting the bug. Not unless we check on another 0.18 instance to see if your lemmy.ml link is agnostic there.

      • @ritswd
        1•2 years ago

        Hah, I got confused by this part of the initial post.

        links to another community on another instance

        If you’re looking to link to given posts or comments, then yeah, I think that is not supported at this time.