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Sounds like a big or missing feature. You might want to write it up on GitHub if you can or the [email protected] community.
You made your link to a fixed instance. Your source:
[[email protected]](https://lemmy.ml/c/lemmy)This is a functional instance agnostic link for older versions:
[[email protected]](/c/[email protected])- like this: [email protected]The new version should just let you type [email protected] and automagically make it instance agnostic. However the actual links need to either be /c/ or /u/.
What is in my post is what the UIβs autocomplete provided. If itβs problematic or wrong, you should probably report a bug to the UI repo (I donβt know the details about these links).
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.
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 [[email protected]](https://lemmy.ml/c/lemmy) community.Mine:
The new version should just let you type [[email protected]](/c/[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/[email protected])to ensure full compatibility.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.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.
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.
Oh strange, that was made on sh.itjust.works in 0.18 but didn't create a link in the source.
Are you sure you didn't manually create yours? Or did you maybe select it from the dropdown box?
It's already been on there. They just didn't get to it this release
Hereβs the first statement on this new feature that I saw: https://zemmy.cc/comment/119470. Presumably they know more about the feature and who developed it.
I also suspect this link will demonstrate your point!
Looks like there's no way to create an instance agnostic link to any specific comments. Here's my link for that same comment: https://lemm.ee/comment/378249, meanwhile the post instance's link: https://lemmy.ml/comment/912298, however yours is apparently the federated host link as that user is based in zemmy.cc.