There are several ways to link to a community. If your instance has had someone previously search for the community, then they will all work. If this hasn’t happened (usually because your instance is small or new) then there can be problems with the “shorthand” method that begins with an !. I’ve written a full explanation in this article at the Community Search Tips community. It lists the drawbacks and advantages of each approach that I’m aware of.
this post was submitted on 31 Jul 2023
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Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn't work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: [email protected]
The irony :D
its because hes wrong
the [email protected] way works just fine even when not yet pulled into an instance
what are you talking about? the [email protected] method works perfectly fine even when on an instance that hasn't pulled in that community yet. It takes a little longer to load but its literally how I've pulled in most if not all of the communities I'm subscribed to on my one person instance.
maybe your info is out of date?
Would be cool if they added a placeholder page that said search in progress or something
Great article!
[email protected] will work anywhere
Weirdly enough, on Kbin, if I click that link, it loads me that instance's feed within Kbin. But if I middle-click that same link to open it in a new tab, it opens on the original instance's page, instead.
As if we didn't have enough confusing little oddities on Kbin as it was, lol
Wow really?? It functions as expected for me. I'm not on kbin though
That is not true. It will fail with a cryptic error message on all instances that have never searched for [email protected], and it will fail for Mastodon users. Those are just the ones we’ve discovered so far.
Just refresh or go back and click the link again and it should work. It's only when it's the first time accessing. At least for me.
On Voyager, I need to tap it, get the cryptic error message, then refresh, and it works.
Annoying, but for free alpha software, I'm not going to complain too much.
The most commonly used format is [[email protected]](/c/[email protected]) (the exclamation point is important). For something like 90% of Lemmy - browser and apps - that should open the community in your home instance when clicked. Only one of the iOS apps (Memmy, Mlem? I don't have an iPhone sadly) had issues with this format.
Unfortunately Memmy doesn't support it (yet) but Voyager does :)