Is there anywhere that lemmy's various types of internal links are documented? like !community links @user links, links of the form https://lemmy.com/c/community@otherinstance.net. i have also seen links that just have "/c/community@otherinstance.net"... at the moment i'm only developing rendering code for them as i happen upon them, which is ad-hoc
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marsara9@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3y
I don't know of any documentation off the top of my head but currently there's
User links:
@marsara9@lemmy.wordThese will translate to
https://<your instance>/u/marsara9@lemmy.worldassuming your not on lemmy.word. If you are it will just behttps://lemmy.word/u/marsara9.And community links:
!fediverse@lemmy.worldThese will follow the same pattern but will have /c/ instead of /u/.
There's been proposals to add others but that's all that exists at the moment.
blawsybogsy@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 3y
thanks for clarifying, so i guess my other link type is an error on my end somewhere...
marsara9@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3y
The one that begins with https is obviously just a full URL and will take the user directly to that instance rather than staying on their home instance. And the one that starts with /c/ is a relative path. While it might work, if the community/user it points to is on the same server as the user, they might encounter errors as it might try and navigate to
https://lemmy.world/c/fediverse@lemmy.worldwhich is undefined (may or may not work).blawsybogsy@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 3y
yeah, the relative ones are always on another instance it seems. if you strip the '/c/' you can hit the '/community' endpoint with the 'comm@inst.ance' part as the name parameter and it returns the community_view for it. works fine.