The weekend, and the rain, has arrived.
What are we all up to? Mourning the lack of sun? Happy for the rain? Still playing Tears of the Kingdom with the curtains closed?
The weekend, and the rain, has arrived.
What are we all up to? Mourning the lack of sun? Happy for the rain? Still playing Tears of the Kingdom with the curtains closed?
For what it’s worth, seems the bang syntax actually makes a direct link (makes people leave their instance), whereas the links you have as “direct links” (looks like /c/ syntax in the source) keep you inside your instance.
For example, here’s the Trekkie community:
Bang (!) syntax: !startrek@startrek.website
/c/ syntax: Star Trek (written as
[Star Trek](/c/startrek@startrek.website)not sure if there’s a way to autogenerate this)Yes I know, that’s why I added both types so everyone could get there. Sorry, not sure what you’re trying to tell me here but I am very tired so that’s probably not on you! 😄
Oh, unless you’re confirming they work that way in Kbin too? In which case, awesome.
Also a bit unrelated but where are you from that ! is called a bang? Never heard that before!
To me, direct link means a link that will send me directly to the posts on their instance (i.e. a direct link to the Star Trek website will be https://startrek.website, not https://myinstance/c/startrek@startrek.website).
Unless I’m somehow misunderstanding what direct link means here, which I might be? It seems more intuitive to me that the bang syntax would keep you inside your instance, not leave it.
And yeah, using ! is known as bang when used in this sort of context!
Oh right you were just disagreeing about terminology lol, fair enough. I just figured writing “direct link to where you can actually subscribe to avoid you having to do the whole copy paste palaver” was a bit of a mouthful 😆