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Full URL links to communities appear to open fine - even if the instance isn't aware of that community (hurray! thank you for this, it's ace!)
However, links with exclamation marks seem to try to open a user.

I'm going to try putting one in here, but I'm posting from kbin so it might go a bit weird or not exhibit the same problem.
!lemmings

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[โ€“] floppy@rabbitea.rs 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ok, that link worked ๐Ÿ˜•

I've seen it often when the exclamation mark doesn't get highlighted and it tries to open as a user.

Try again

!chiptune@fedia.io

[โ€“] floppy@rabbitea.rs 7 points 1 year ago

Ah, that worked. "API error: couldn't find object" The exclamation mark didn't get highlighted. It didn't appear to try to open as a user though. Maybe this is a slightly different problem, caused by that link being a Kbin magazine - and it's trying to open it as /c/ instead of /m/ ?

[โ€“] DD_DE@feddit.de 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

It seems like the link you provided works just Like intended, altho I definerly have seen that bug. I think it was at a link sth like this one (links with ! and @):
!ich_iel@feddit.de

[โ€“] chris@fedia.io 1 points 1 year ago

I think Kbin converted it to a full link! Should have created this thread with Lemmy really (btw, Chris/floppy in this thread is also me)

[โ€“] floppy@rabbitea.rs 1 points 1 year ago

Yes, that does it - could not find a user with username ich_iel

[โ€“] Terevos@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah I noticed the same thing. I could be wrong, but I thought this used to work in a previous version.

[โ€“] lebigz@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I also remember that this worked at a point, but it doesn't anymore. It's always the format with the ! exclamation point in front. @Kuro@lemmy.ca If you are looking for examples, basically all links in https://lemmy.world/c/newcommunities don't work. They're in the format

!newcommunities@lemmy.world

I am now realizing that Connect also screws up the link formatting for this style when posting

[โ€“] chris@fedia.io 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Most links have been working fine for me recently, although I still occasionally see this error. However, it appears that links to kbin magazines don't work at all. I suspect Connect is searching for server/c/community and not retrying with server/m/community when it gets an error back.

[โ€“] lebigz@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Do you have an example of a working link? Because all ! links don't work for me currently. I always get the 'user not found' Page, so it interprets them without the !

[โ€“] chris@fedia.io 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[โ€“] chris@fedia.io 1 points 1 year ago

...which I see now are local links with /c/ so not the issue we're discussing here!

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