Fun fact: reddit still allows this too. Eg. panelshow.reddit.com = reddit.com/panelshow
If anyone has an alternative to that subreddit, I'd be most grateful, obviously. It's the only one I still visit.
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l_b_i@yiffit.net 11 months ago
Looks like a test instance. URLs are read from the end to the beginning, so enterprise.lemmy.ml is a domain controlled by lemmy.ml. As that is the instance that the main developers control, it would follow they have a testing environment. In addition. Almost all the posts, users, and communities seem to have “test” as part of their name. It being the instance controlled by the developers is why lemmy.ml is always a link, while lemmy.world would need to be formatted as a link to get a link.
Fun fact: reddit still allows this too. Eg. panelshow.reddit.com = reddit.com/panelshow
If anyone has an alternative to that subreddit, I'd be most grateful, obviously. It's the only one I still visit.
theKalash@feddit.ch 11 months ago
That has nothing to do with it being a “instance controlled by the developers”. .world simply won’t be auto-linked since it’s a to common of a word (my guess anyway).
you can type in any valid domain and it will link them.
google.com test.com whateever.ch
but it will never work “.world”
anything.world
ShittyKopper@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 months ago
.world is a newer gTLD whereas .ml is a more well known country code TLD. whatever auto linking code the lemmy UI uses likely just isn’t up to date with all these comparatively recent TLDs
theKalash@feddit.ch 11 months ago
Could also be the case, but there is like 1600 TLDs these days, ranging from foo.accountants to bar.walmart (just testing if they autocomplete, I don’t think so).
Maybe at somepoint it makes sense to exclude some of the more common terms to avoid accidental linking by people that don’t use spaces after punctuation (I hate them). But could also just be an up-to-date issue, I’m just speculating.
skullgiver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl 11 months ago
theKalash@feddit.ch 11 months ago
I’m just using the default web interface and I don’t think the link generation is from my browser. I think it’s on the side of lemmy, but I could be wrong. Using any mobile app could easily overwrite that behaviour though.
Yep, someone else also suggested that. Might be that or see my reply to that for futher thoughts.