Bad autocomplete for !community@instance

[Die4Ever]

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Summary

Typing [email protected] gives the autocomplete for !fedigrow[[email protected]](https://lemm.ee/c/fedigrow), which is unnecessary since all frontends correctly handle the plain [email protected] (I think even Mbin handles this correctly)

And the autocomplete incorrectly takes you to a remote instance. Also the autocomplete incorrectly shows the community name twice

shows the community name twice.

Steps to Reproduce

1. Type [email protected]
2. Click autocomplete
3. See incorrect markdown
4. Click Preview and see incorrect result

Technical Details

Tested in Chrome and Firefox

Discussion here: https://lemmy.world/post/21832647

Lemmy Instance Version

0.19.5

Lemmy Instance URL

programming.dev

[DraconicNEO]

We really just need to stop having it autocorrect to a URL embed via []() and allow people to just type [email protected] and autocorrect to the community without embedding the link as a link format. Especially since the backend already handles annotating the community links already without needing to do that and makes them functional on any instance, but directly linking hardcodes them to that instance which is a poor choice for remote users who will just get redirected there instead of the community on their own instance.

[dessalines]

Can't replicate this, the autocomplete for communities is working fine: https://enterprise.lemmy.ml/post/1244/7064

[Die4Ever]

I just tested this on retrolemmy running 0.19.12 and it's still not good

[dessalines]

Looks correct, its creating a proper markdown link. What's the issue?

[Die4Ever]

It's unnecessarily relying on Lemmy's specific URL format. It would be like if you tried to type @ for a username in Mastodon and it gave you

[@[email protected]](/@[email protected])

Making it a broken link for Lemmy and probably many other platforms. Other platforms (including Lemmy) correctly interpret the ! format without needing the markdown link, so why break that?

Edit: Also this is currently linking to the full path and not a relative path? I suspect this is quite annoying on some platforms, and again unnecessary since I delete the markdown and it's a nice clickable link for everyone that I've never received complaints about. It works with every app and platform.

[dessalines]

We don't have a universal lemmy:// protocol, so things like this aren't possible. You need to use full markdown URLs else they won't work across different services.