Canonical names (the ones starting with !) are broken prior to the 0.18.0 release of Lemmy (check bottom of page to see what version your instance is on). Names seem to be working well in 0.18.1 release candidate 4. In a post they're relative links and don't direct away from your login instance. On the sidebar they are absolute links and direct to the home instance of the community.

Community searches are pretty broken on 0.18.0. I'm seeing it fixed on the rc.4 release candidate and canonical names are properly recognized in searches.

Those names can't be used in the address bar of a browser, that will never change. In a browser address bar you use a format like lemmy.ml/c/[email protected] where lemmy.ml represents your sign-in instance.

They are only really useful for getting an instance to federate an off instance community- you paste that form in the search box, and usually a few minutes later you can access the community.

If you want to have a link to a community, use just ‘/c/[email protected]’ - even if the instance is the one you are on. That way it will work wherever you are logged in. example is a link to ‘/c/[email protected]’

I haven’t found a way to link posts or comments that are instance portable- if anyone knows of a way, I’d love to hear it.

You want to go to the search bar at the top and search NoStupidQuestions then limit to communities/local, at least for communities on your instance.

You can also search !NoStupidQuestions from there and it should work, but you have to give it a second to show the search results. A weird, silly issue is that if you try to search from the communities page, it automatically narrows your search to communities, and for whatever reason that doesn't recognize the !NoStupidQuestions style nor urls from what I've found.

You have to switch the search settings to search all for it to recognize either of those styles.

Same question here. Github says it should work but it don't

Does this work? (if yes, I used the link markdown thingy).