This extension helps users subscribed to Lemmy communities by adding an icon before mentions or URLs related to other communities. These mentions can be in the format “!communityname@instance.domain” or through URLs like “https://lemmy.ml/c/memes”.

By clicking the icon, users are directed to the kbin URL of that community. However, there’s currently a bug preventing it from working on /kbin (ironically), and I’ve already reported the issue on Git.

I’m in the process of publishing the extension on Firefox and Chrome extension stores, along with making the source code available.

I would appreciate your input on whether you find this extension useful.

Edit: github link: https://github.com/driccio98/kbin-link

Thank you!

  • nightauthor@kbin.social
    5·
    1 year ago

    I don’t know how often it’ll be useful. But in poking around on kbin for the past couple of days I’ve already had a few instances where I would have liked to have this.

  • ADHDefy@kbin.social
    4·
    1 year ago

    Seems really cool! Can’t wait to try it out. Are there any plans for a Firefox version in the future?

  • fuzzzerd@kbin.social
    3·
    1 year ago

    I don’t understand why this isn’t default behavior. I’m logged into kbin, as such if someone links another community on a different server, I want to interact with it through kbin, where I’m logged in.

    While a browser extension is a great start, that doesn’t help mobile users, so again it feels like it’s something that should be in the base UI.

    This is a great start though, and useful for those folks that can run browser extensions. Here’s wishing mobile browsers had more extension support.

  • autumnplains@kbin.social
    3·
    1 year ago

    Forgive me if this is irrelevant, but people had suggested earlier that when something isn’t linked, you search with ! in front in the search bar. Someone else clarified that this is actually something you do on Lemmy specifically and that Kbin (and I think all others) don’t require the !. So if you remove the ! from your link, does it then work on Kbin? Again, I’m not sure if what you’re trying to do works the same way, but it sounded similar to this and I can verify that this fixed it with the search bar thing for me 😊

    • lixus98@kbin.socialOP
      1·
      1 year ago

      This extension searches the website you’re on for what I call mentions !gaming@beehaw.org and adds an icon with the kbin url of that community https://kbin.social/m/gaming@beehaw.org.
      And it also works for lemmy urls.
      For example: https://lemmy.ml/c/asklemmy will also get the same treatment and if you click on the icon you will go instead to https://kbin.social/m/asklemmy@lemmy.ml.
      The icon is that little purple thing you can see in the screenshot.

  • hocus@kbin.social
    2·
    1 year ago

    Good idea! Will this work only with kbin.social, or will we be able to use it with other instances, in future?

  • Fangleone2526@kbin.social
    2·
    1 year ago

    can we get a github link? before it even gets on chrome web store or firefox addon store you can still load it as a crx or the firefox equivalent

  • fcuks@kbin.social
    1·
    1 year ago

    seems pretty useful thanks, I’ve currently been manually pasting in links into kbin search to access them through kbin instance, this will be much more seamless