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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](/c/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](/c/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

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[–] Mummelpuffin 13 points 1 year ago

...Oh thank god. This was single-handedly making the new user experience far more confusing than it had to be.

[–] _ed@sopuli.xyz 12 points 1 year ago

Great that’s a point of friction removed!

[–] nlm 10 points 1 year ago

Oh, that's a big one! Especially for new users!

[–] ELLIOTTCABLE 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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?

https://programming.dev/c/programming

!programming@programming.dev

[–] trashhalo 9 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] ken27238 4 points 1 year ago

Nice! Definitely gonna be helpful for new people like me. And make linking in general easier.

[–] KidDogDad 3 points 1 year ago

Here’s hoping that doing something similar for individual posts is next on their list!