Seems like old Lemmy instances were purged in a recent update but there’s a lot that are missing. Would be nice to have so I don’t have to leave the app to view a Lemmy link
Lemmy links appear to still be working for me on v1.0.15 of boost.
That’s not what I’m talking about, I’m talking about the associated/supported links that the app will try to open by default. Sure, that seems to work, and so does this https://ani.social/post/11480352?scrollToComments=true … except if I try to navigate to that URL from my browser/outside of Boost.
Some lemmy instances just aren’t associated with Boost at all, so the app can’t open them natively, e.g this for example https://endlesstalk.org/post/86819672 will take you to the apps browser-view/open outside of Boost regardless of where you click it.
Ah you’re referring to the fqdn of an instance from a browser.
Those aren’t “Lemmy links”. As Lemmy has its own linking system like in my examples.
The issue at hand is there are potentially hundreds if not thousands of cases to catch for this feature to work the way you’d hope. As there’s no standard url format to enroll or authoritative list of instances to be enrolled that would satisfy Google.
It may be possible for the various web developers maintaining the various webuis to make it easier.
https://developer.android.com/training/app-links
You could try submitting a feature request with the different webui projects out there and see if they will resolve it or better explain why they can’t.
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I think the user is referring to the ‘open by default’ and ‘supported links’ feature in android apps, where clicking a link in a web browser opens it in the relevant app
I use this and it seems to work well. Boost should implement something similar, but in the meantime does this app help in your case?
