Comment on What is the best way to link a Lemmy Community?
ericjmorey@lemmy.world 8 months ago
The exclamation mark is extraneous and creates confusing a visual indicator as to whether a link is to the hosting instance of the community rather than a link to the federated copy on whatever instance you’re on. It works one way in some circumstances and the opposite way in others. And it won’t work at all for people who are on an instance that hasn’t federated with that community. It has in fact been depreciated by the main devs of Lemmy but that’s only documented in comments to github issues.
can@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
It’s been deprecated? What the hell are we supposed to do now?
ericjmorey@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Use /c/support@lemmy.world I usually make it a hyperlink like this: support@lemmy.world | Local Link
CommunityLinkFixer@lemmings.world [bot] 8 months 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: !support@lemmy.world
ericjmorey@lemmy.world 8 months ago
LOL This bot recommending the thing that doesn’t work right and is being phased out.