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Welcome New Users! (lemmy.ca)

submitted 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) by otter to c/main

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We have gotten a lot of new signups over the past few days, and we're all very excited to have you joining us! You'll find that people are more than happy to help you get started and learn how to use the site.

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[–] Shadow 6 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Oooh, that's a good feature request but not something we could easily do.

[–] ehpolitical 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

No worries, I was just wondering if it was already available and I couldn't find it.

[–] otter 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

If you're on desktop, it might be possible to set up a JavaScript bookmarklet for that. I can take a look tonight.

You would still open the lemmy.ca link first, but you wouldn't need to modify the URL manually. You would click on the bookmarklet

[–] ehpolitical 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Thanks, but I don't want to put you through all that trouble. I'm guessing you're busy enough already. I'm also getting used to lemmy.ca... starting to feel more at home :)

[–] otter 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

That's very considerate, thank you :)

I've played with bookmarklets before, so it wasn't too much trouble. I don't normally use Alexandrite, but from my quick exploration it seems that Alexandrite URLs are very similar to the default ones, where it just appends alex.lemmy.ca/ to the start. If that is the case, the following steps should work. The steps are for Firefox, but it should be similar on other browsers:

Right-click on the bookmark bar and click Add Bookmark
Put anything you want in the name
In the URL field, paste in this block of code:

javascript:(function(){
    let currentURL = window.location.href;
    if (currentURL.startsWith('https://lemmy.ca/')) {
        window.location.href = currentURL.replace('https://lemmy.ca/', 'https://alex.lemmy.ca/lemmy.ca/');
    }
})();

When you are on any lemmy.ca page, clicking on the bookmark should take you to the corresponding alex.lemmy.ca page. You can also make one to go in the opposite direction, with this block of code:

javascript:(function(){
    let currentURL = window.location.href;
    if (currentURL.startsWith('https://alex.lemmy.ca/lemmy.ca/')) {
        window.location.href = currentURL.replace('https://alex.lemmy.ca/lemmy.ca/', 'https://lemmy.ca/');
    } else if (currentURL === 'https://alex.lemmy.ca/lemmy.ca') {
        window.location.href = 'https://lemmy.ca/';
    }
})();

Hopefully that works!

[–] ehpolitical 3 points 5 days ago

Wow, thanks so much, that was really nice of you! :)