(Lemmy) no UI support for DMing arbitrary users

freedomPusher@sopuli.xyzM to Bug reports on any software@sopuli.xyz · 8 months ago

I needed to DM a security bug to @LemmyDev@mastodon.social, but the Lemmy UI gives no way to freely compose a DM and manually enter an address. Users are expected to find a hyperlinked user click on it, and then click “send message”. The search functionality failed to find anything when I queried @LemmyDev@mastodon.social.

But the capability is there for advanced users who discover that they can click on the user of an external account and then mimic the URL format to manually enter an account.

#lemmyBug

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