@KS this sound familiar? https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/pull/4328

@bea that makes sense. all the instances running master have two canonical links for each user, and I guess instances can't make up their mind which to use for mentions?

@KS so uh, how we doin now? patch is in

@bea mentions still seem to be haphazard?

like, let me see, if I mention @soft_chomps I'm pretty sure the URL will be gs/users/soft_chomps...? But when you did it just a couple minutes ago (https://glitch.social/users/bea/updates/60748) the URL was gs/@soft_chomps

... why is it still different??

@KS lol let's leave annie out of this shall we? but uh say other me @bea

howbout that?

@bea sorry, just needed an example =p

interestingly *your* mention of @bea linked to egs/users/bea

is it just acting differently for local users mentioning each other?

@KS @bea uh maybe so!

@bea so like, I'm not sure how to describe this, but

the canonical url seems to have changed to /users/*** at some point in master, so any older posts that use /@*** in a mention stop working properly

and then for some reason, mentions done between two users on the same server have a URL of /@*** despite that not being the canonical URL for everybody else? so it doesn't work properly?

would this be considered a regression I guess?

@KS i'm not sure it's even just that that's a problem here

because

if i click the mention of my ephemeral self which uses /users/foo

it opens in the right column

but if i click the mention of soft_chomps from you it opens in a new tab and it also uses /users/foo

@bea this is all really weird

like, what is even going on on here and what kind of change would cause this to be happening anyway?

@KS i know not

would love to get a clear explanation of which mention links should open in right col vs new tab...

@bea I think ideally they should all open up in right col?

@KS i would like that