This might just be me being a noob, but how to I subscribe to this community? I tried typing !main@rblind.com into the communities tab (I’m using Jerboa) and nothing came up.
It’s kinda tricksy. You need to visit the comm from within your own instance. The easiest way is to click Communities, then All, then search for it - however you have to know what you’re looking for, and you can’t filter or sort by instance.
In this case, searching would be hard, as the comm is called “main”. There are probably lots of other mains in different instances.
For you, try beehaw.org/c/main@rblind.com. However, it could be that it’s too new for your instance to know about it, in which case I’m not sure but you may just have to wait until beehaw federates with it.
I think there’s also a generic way to format links such that anyone can click them from their own instance and get their instance’s version, however I haven’t learned that yet. Something like !main@rblind.com. Also, things can work different on apps vs the website - for example Jerboa only lets you browse comms you’re subbed to.
Often, a quick way to link communities is by formatting a hyperlink like this [Visible-text-to-click](/c/community@instance.tld)
For a this example, formatting the text like [this link](/c/main@rblind.com) would create this link that most* people can click on that will bring them to that community.
Ya, I’ve been told that it’s a known bug that they’re working on. I still like it as a reader, but to do any sort of adjustment to your account, such as finding communities and adding them, or interacting with replies to your posts, the website is more useful right now.
When you’re writing a message on the web version, typing ! and the name of the community will bring up a suggestion box.
Typing !main and selecting the rblind.com instance autocompletes to [!main@rblind.com](https://rblind.com/c/main) but that links directly to the instance itself. It needs a bit of formatting though to get it to be instance-agnostic.
There’s a big discussion on Github on how to handle links, because as mentioned, the /c/ won’t work for kbin users.
I personally think it should link the instance directly, as it already does, and have a second link in the formatting we mentioned for the local instance link.
I think there’s also a generic way to format links such that anyone can click them from their own instance
Like this: /c/main@rblind.com, won’t work when reading the comment on kbin, though, only on lemmy. For people too lazy to click on “view source” (or unaware of it): [<link text>](/c/<community>@<instance>)
Making that stuff easier and more intuitive is on the dev’s list and I apologise for anyone on a screen reader it’s symbol gore.
This might just be me being a noob, but how to I subscribe to this community? I tried typing !main@rblind.com into the communities tab (I’m using Jerboa) and nothing came up.
It’s kinda tricksy. You need to visit the comm from within your own instance. The easiest way is to click Communities, then All, then search for it - however you have to know what you’re looking for, and you can’t filter or sort by instance.
In this case, searching would be hard, as the comm is called “main”. There are probably lots of other mains in different instances.
For you, try beehaw.org/c/main@rblind.com. However, it could be that it’s too new for your instance to know about it, in which case I’m not sure but you may just have to wait until beehaw federates with it.
I think there’s also a generic way to format links such that anyone can click them from their own instance and get their instance’s version, however I haven’t learned that yet. Something like !main@rblind.com. Also, things can work different on apps vs the website - for example Jerboa only lets you browse comms you’re subbed to.
Often, a quick way to link communities is by formatting a hyperlink like this
[Visible-text-to-click](/c/community@instance.tld)For a this example, formatting the text like
[this link](/c/main@rblind.com)would create this link that most* people can click on that will bring them to that community.*Kbin users will need to replace the
/c/with/m/As a note for Jerboa users: the above link may instantly crash the app. At least, it does for me.
Yep, that’s what I’ve found. I’m thinking of scrapping the app in favour of the website tbh, at least for now.
Ya, I’ve been told that it’s a known bug that they’re working on. I still like it as a reader, but to do any sort of adjustment to your account, such as finding communities and adding them, or interacting with replies to your posts, the website is more useful right now.
Hopefully it can catch up soon.
Supposedly a few good updates are coming with v0.18, which could be any day now!
That would be great!
It would be nice if you could just type /c/community@instance. Or /m/ as required.
When you’re writing a message on the web version, typing
!and the name of the community will bring up a suggestion box.Typing
!mainand selecting the rblind.com instance autocompletes to[!main@rblind.com](https://rblind.com/c/main)but that links directly to the instance itself. It needs a bit of formatting though to get it to be instance-agnostic.There’s a big discussion on Github on how to handle links, because as mentioned, the /c/ won’t work for kbin users.
I personally think it should link the instance directly, as it already does, and have a second link in the formatting we mentioned for the local instance link.
Like this: /c/main@rblind.com, won’t work when reading the comment on kbin, though, only on lemmy. For people too lazy to click on “view source” (or unaware of it): [<link text>](/c/<community>@<instance>)
Making that stuff easier and more intuitive is on the dev’s list and I apologise for anyone on a screen reader it’s symbol gore.
I haven’t been able to get it to work for jerboa for new instances I’ve had to go to the actual site and search it