Read this post and wrote a simple Tampermonkey script as a solution.
// ==UserScript==
// @name Fix community link
// @version 0.1
// @description try to take over the world!
// @match https://sh.itjust.works/post/*
// ==/UserScript==
(function() {
'use strict';
const postLinks = document.getElementById("postContent").querySelectorAll("a:not(.community-link)") // get every links that is NOT a community link
const fixLink = (aTags) => {
for (let aTag of aTags) {
const isCommunityLink = aTag.pathname.startsWith("/c/");
aTag.href = isCommunityLink?aTag.pathname + "@" + aTag.host:aTag.href
};
}
fixLink(postLinks)
const comments = document.getElementsByClassName("comment-content");
for (let comment of comments) {
let commentLinks = comment.querySelectorAll("a:not(.community-link)");
fixLink(commentLinks)
}
})();
Any advice? I especially hate the fact that the way to check if it’s a link for lemmy community is through pathname but I thought there’s can’t be a real solution besides listing all the lemmy instances or actually making a request somehow.
Any inputs are welcome!
Welcome to the main community in programming.dev! Feel free to post anything relating to programming here!
Cross posting is strongly encouraged in the instance. If you feel your post or another person’s post makes sense in another community cross post into it.
Hope you enjoy the instance!
Follow the wormhole through a path of communities !webdev@programming.dev
We’re actually working on a browser extension for this! It currently supports both communities and posts
!Instance_Assistant@lemmy.ca
We ran into the same issue, federated sites are hard to work with. Right now, the extension has it so that a user needs to right click on a link to be redirected. That way the user can choose which links get redirected, and there’s no chance of accidentally redirecting the wrong thing.
There are other solutions (using the API for example), but they seemed to slow the browser down too much. Another proposed feature that hasn’t been implemented yet was to redirect when holding down a key (when holding down “r”, try to redirect the link).
Feel free to take a look, try it, and you can totally contribute code. It’s all open source and we’ve tried to keep the code simple and easy to verify/contribute.
I am not that familiar with browser extensions dev enough to contribute rn but that looks awesome. If there’s any chance, I’ll definitely contribute!
Sounds good! This was my first dive into browser extensions as well. It’s not too bad once you go over the basics. If you give it a try, see the contributing page on the repo’s wiki for some resources on how to get started with browser extensions.
A super short summary is:
If you DO give it a try, we were part way through migrating features from the LemmyTools userscript and that might be a good place to start. I wasn’t familiar with userscripts so I didn’t make much progress, and can’t get back to it for a little while. The issues page of the repo should have LemmyTools related features tagged. If any details are missing, let me know and I’ll add them in :)