Is this really necessary with v18 having this built-in?

It would be nice if the welcome page would tell you what community it will be redirecting you too. Right now it looks like something hijacked my browser; I don’t really trust it.

Also, I got error 500 after entering my hostname.

And it might take some effort. But if you had a searchable select box populated with a master list of instances, that might be pretty cool.

In the end, training everyone to make lmmy.to urls when they reference a community may be too difficult. This needs to be a builtin feature of the lemmi web ui somehow.

I put in "thelemmy.club" and it gives me 500 Internal errors

Thanks for the effort, but, unless I'm missing something, this is unnecessary because you can simply make a relative link like [this](/c/lemmy@lemmy.ml) (this) and get the same effect. Also, as of 0.18.0, a string like /c/lemmy@lemmy.ml automatically becomes a relative link, like this: /c/lemmy@lemmy.ml

However, these relative links unfortunately don't work on non-lemmy activitypub sites like mastodon and kbin.

imo, despite this, for now an easy improvement that should be made is that lemmy's autocomplete functionality (when typing !communityname...) should be changed to generate relative links.

I haven't followed the discussion closely but there are multiple github issues about this problem. One is here and from it you can find some others.

Genius. Great work!