Hi there rodents, admins specifically this time,

I don’t know if what I’m going to question was intended to be this way, as the lemmy website ui is supposed to work with javascript enabled, or not.

Just 10 minutes ago I read that the federation was enabled so I wanted to try it out.

I found a post from @dess_ds9 and I tried to open its profile.
The page opens without a beat, showing its profile, but If I try to click its identifier with javascript disabled, instead of loading https://ds9.lemmy.ml/u/dess_ds9 I’m redirected to https://lemmy.ml/https://ds9.lemmy.ml/u/dess_ds9 .

The same happens with communities.

I noticed this behaviour because I usually navigate the web with javascript disabled. Is it supposed to be this way?
If it’s not a bug, could it be made to work even without javascript?

Thanks again for your work!

  • riccardo
    2•3 years ago

    Thanks for posting this, I remember that when federation was first being tested I ran into the same bug but I didn’t have time to report it and eventually forgot to post. I have JS enabled, have you tried to temporarily enable it and try to reproduce?

    • @clockwise_bitOP
      1•3 years ago

      Yup, I tried switching it on and off.
      No matter what, if it’s on it works like a charm, if it’s off the link becomes becomes broken again.

      • riccardo
        2•3 years ago

        Indeed, I cannot reproduce it anymore with JS enabled