Okay I learned a few things, though they may be specific to Memmy.

1. The /c/community@instance works, and opens the links in the app, rather than browser
2. If you have text in front of your link, it doesn’t work. Might be a Memmy issue.
3. I need to test, but I think #2 is responsible for the Null errors I’ve been getting when text is hyperlinked.

Text testing #3 - confirmed, this returns the Null error.

Now without prior text

test - this also didn’t work

test! - using a link beginning with ! Also didn’t work. Hmm.

Those opened in the in app browser on Memmy. Testing here

/c/amateur_radio@lemmy.radio

Thanks for the explainer! Doing some testing cause your example didn’t hyperlink on Memmy

c/tech@pawb.social /c/tech@pawb.social !c/tech@pawb.social !tech@pawb.social test text /c/tech@pawb.social /c/Lemmy@lemmy.ml

Weird. Not sure when your example didn’t link, because it did in my comment ¯\(ツ)/¯

Edit: I’m back on browser. Everything that hyperlinked works properly. It’s a Memmy issue

Do you mind giving a short explainer of proper link formatting? I was struggling with this just a little bit ago

Thanks for the post. I’ve bought some coffees for the Lemmy.world admin and Memmy dev, but didn’t think to track down the Lemmy dev. Signed up for the Patreon!

I don’t have a coding background but this was very informative. Thanks for sharing