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

    • Chris@rabbitea.rs
      7·
      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/ ?

  • DD_DE@feddit.de
    4·
    1 year ago

    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

    • chris@fedia.ioOP
      1·
      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)

  • Terevos
    2·
    1 year ago

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

  • lebigz@feddit.de
    1·
    1 year ago

    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

    • chris@fedia.ioOP
      1·
      1 year ago

      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.