SOLUTION: literally write out [exclamation mark]community@instance. Do not use the autocomplete function. This works in both the sidebar and comments.
Using the URL markdown method (to have the display text be different from the dynamic link) impacts other UIs.
If you enter this:
You get this:
The links in the screenshot above will work in a graceful manner irrespective of what instance (or even what UI/platform?) you use.
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What are the best practises for adding links to other communities in your sidebar?
I mod the LW hardware community and all the links are tied to LW.
So https://programming.dev/c/linuxhardware
is linked via https://lemmy.world/c/linuxhardware@programming.dev
But that would mean anyone not on LW would get a logged out view of LW accessing the programming.dev/linuxhardware community. I don’t have a programming.dev account so I added an LW-specific URL.
Is there some sort of markdown code that would “auto redirect” the user to a view based on their instance without any use of explicit URLs. For a second I thought that’s what the exclamation mark does, but turns out it’s just a shortcut for adding community URLs.
You can create a link to any community by linking in this format:
/c/community@instance.tldi.e.[fedigrow](/c/fedigrow@lemm.ee)becomes fedigrow and is instance-agnostic.This was a stopgap solution before just writing the community name in the
!community@instan.cewas possible. It was better than absolute links, but not functional everywhere (such as apps).The best way to link communities is now to just write their name as-is, using no markdown link at all.
For example, this should work for everyone, no matter their instance or client: !gameart@sopuli.xyz
Cheers! The c and dashes don’t actually seem to be necessary though though.
Wait a second, it is actually critical. I thought it worked c and dashes, but turns out it doesn’t?
Yeah it’s creating a link - you can use the ! method too but meh I prefer my links to look clean.