One of the smaller quality of life improvements in 0.18.1 is now lemmy-ui will look for text that looks like a community like !community@instance.com and automatically links it to your instance’s community page for ez subscribing.
So if you just type in a post or comment !community@instance.com it will link to https://beehaw.org/c/community@instance.com when you post it.
If curious, here is the change request that added this feature. https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/pull/1462
…Oh thank god. This was single-handedly making the new user experience far more confusing than it had to be.
Great that’s a point of friction removed!
Oh, that’s a big one! Especially for new users!
How does this work during federation? You’ll see your instance’s page for that sub, I’m guessing, no matter where it’s homed?
That’s correct. The one catch is your instance may not be federating that community. If that happens you will get a 404 page not found when clicking the link.
Damn good work, people.
Nice! Definitely gonna be helpful for new people like me. And make linking in general easier.
Here’s hoping that doing something similar for individual posts is next on their list!