[Suggestion] rewriting lemmy http links to community links (programming.dev)

submitted 1 year ago by SuperFola@programming.dev to c/voyagerapp@lemmy.world

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When scrolling on Lemmy I often stumble on links from people that don't use community syntax (!c@server).

It would be appreciated for those thinks to be rewritten automatically to avoid the browser opening, and instead staying in Voyager.

Implementation could be tough though: do you need to prefetch the page, parse it and check somehow that it's a Lemmy community? Or have a list of known servers to rewrite those links? Both could prove tedious to maintain.

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[-] aeharding@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

They should already

https://lemmy.world/c/general

[-] natflow@apollo.town 7 points 1 year ago

It doesn’t seem to happen for link posts though. This commonly happens in the new communities community: https://lemm.ee/post/2081675

[-] aeharding@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Yes, posts and comment link support is coming, I believe there's a github issue for that :)

[-] natflow@apollo.town 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I meant a link post whose link is a community. I added a comment to the issue that’s hopefully clearer.

[-] CommunityLinkFixer 3 points 1 year ago

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: !general@lemmy.world

[-] gnzl@nc.gnzl.cl 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'm probably in the minority here, but can this functionality be disabled? I'd rather have the links open as linked, unless the !community@instance format is used.

EDIT: I should specify: I'd like to be able to disable this functionality, not have it disabled completely for everyone 😅