Comment on How to revitalize this sub?

• tal@lemmy.today ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It works on both kbin and lemmy. And if it works on kbin, I assume that it works on mbin, given that that’s a fork.

  No idea for piefed and sublinks.

  I’m pretty sure at this point that the bang syntax has enough inertia that if a given Threadiverse server implementation doesn’t support it, it should. I don’t think that the syntax is particularly flawed. Well, other than that it doesn’t directly map to the URL’s syntax, a la the Reddit convention of “/r/foo” or the kbin convention of “/b/”, which might make it less-intuitive.

  Hmm. Actually, this should be pretty easy to test, because…the magic of the Threadiverse’s guest access and federation.

  Works on Kbin!

  kbin.social/m/…/How-to-revitalize-this-sub#entry-…

  Works on Piefed!

  piefed.social/post/88672#post_replies

  I don’t know of an active sublinks instance, and nobody on fedia.io – the largest mbin instance – appears to presently be subscribed to !patientgamers@sh.itjust.works.

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  • BolexForSoup@kbin.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Alright I’m probably being a dummy. Nothing happens when I do !kbin.social/m/truegaming.

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    • tal@lemmy.today ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      So, the syntax is:

      !truegaming@kbin.social
      

      That yields:

      !truegaming@kbin.social

      On lemmy instances, the visible text is “!truegaming@kbin.social”.

      On kbin instances – and I really think that this should be changed – the instance renders the visible text to be “!truegaming”.

      Both still create a valid link to it if you use the syntax with the appended “@instancename”. Just on kbin, you don’t get to see what someone actually typed. You can hover the mouse over it to see the instance to which it’s linking.

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      • Zagorath@aussie.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        On kbin instances…the instance renders the visible text to be “!” and then “truegaming”

        Holy shit that is so bad. Like, just an inexcusably awful user experience, that cannot possibly have any effect but to cause confusion.

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      • BolexForSoup@kbin.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Perfect thank you! I bounce between Memmy app and mobile version of kbin so I get turned around a lot.

        !truegaming. Bam

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  • BolexForSoup@kbin.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    !truegaming it is then lol

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