Greetings, kbeans! I wanted to inform you that Kbin Link is now available on the Firefox Extension Store. If you’re interested, you can find more information about it here: https://github.com/driccio98/kbin-link.
Kbin Link is a browser extension designed to simplify your browsing experience across different online communities. It detects community mentions in the format of “[email protected]” and it recognizes links in the format of “https://lemmy.word/c/memes” across any website and adds a convenient icon at the beginning. This icon allows you to quickly redirect to the corresponding community on Kbin, where you can easily subscribe to it.
Since this is a small project, there may be a few bugs or areas for improvement. If you encounter any issues or have suggestions, please let me know by leaving an issue on the GitHub repository.
Edit: Soon on the chrome store too!
Link to firefox store: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/kbin-link/
Thank you for your support!
I like the idea, but I feel like something isn’t working correctly.
This comment in particular seems to add the icon with the “internal” kbin /m/ link, but their either empty or it throws a 404 error when I try to go there.
Edit: Am i just dumb, and this is still a left over / ongoing issue with kbin’s federation in general?
Something to keep in mind is, if the magazine is not federated yet with your instance you will get a 404.
In that case you have to manually search for that magazine in the search bar. This is not a limitation of the extension but rather how the federation works on kbin and lemmy.
I might add an option to show a magnifying glass icon to automate this process.
I’m sorry I don’t really understand…
So, even if lemmy.world is overall federated with kbin.social, individual communities on other instances also have to be federated with their equivalent magazine here on kbin?
Let’s say for example I create the community [email protected] this community won’t show up on kbin unless someone searches for it, so that user has to search for [email protected] on kbin so that kbin can discover that community and allow its users to see it and subscribe to it.
I think I get what you’re saying.
What’s the correct format for the url to put into the search bar, because nothing I’ve done has returned any results when I try to search for those communities from the comment I linked.
This one showed up.
Basically you look for them like [email protected]
Okay, I get it now, and I appreciate the hand-holding you’re doing here. It’s a wonder I’ve made it this far at all.
But now, this post has a link to [email protected], and if I click the icon i get sent here
https://kbin.social/m/!food@beehaw.orgwhich 404s, but if delete the ! from that URL it loads correctly. This seems wrong?No problem, I enjoy helping!
I will take a look at this to solve it. Thank you for reporting it.
Should be fixed for you shortly!
Yup, all fixed, thanks!