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Introducing Kbin Link: Navigate between communities with ease (media.kbin.social)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by lixus98@kbin.social to c/kbinMeta@kbin.social

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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 "!communityname@lemmy.world" 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!

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[–] WorseDoughnut@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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?

[–] lixus98@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Let's say for example I create the community donuts@lemmy.world this community won't show up on kbin unless someone searches for it, so that user has to search for donuts@lemmy.world on kbin so that kbin can discover that community and allow its users to see it and subscribe to it.

[–] WorseDoughnut@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] lixus98@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This one showed up.
Basically you look for them like nethack@lemmy.sdf.org

[–] WorseDoughnut@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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 !food@beehaw.org, and if I click the icon i get sent here https://kbin.social/m/[!food@beehaw.org](/c/food@beehaw.org) which 404s, but if delete the ! from that URL it loads correctly. This seems wrong?

[–] lixus98@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

No problem, I enjoy helping!
I will take a look at this to solve it. Thank you for reporting it.

[–] lixus98@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Should be fixed for you shortly!

[–] WorseDoughnut@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Yup, all fixed, thanks!