Cross-instance message links appear as "No Access"

(#808) Bug Needs triage messaging self-hosting

1mo agoby RexSystem originally by @DanielKovalevich on GitHub

Observed behaviour

When in a self hosted instance, a friend wanted to send a message link from the main themes instance - but instead I see "No Access" as the link. image If you click on it, a modal pops up saying channel access denied. image But if I right click the "no access" hyperlink, I can see open link and it opens to the themes message I linked (in a new tab on the Fluxer instance). image

Reproduction steps

Copy message link from official instance
Paste link in self-hosted instance

Build information

Stable Web 2026.829.222546, Windows NT 10.0 (x64), Firefox 154.0, Locale en-US

Platform

Self-hosting

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4 comments

RexSystem 1 vote 1mo ago originally by @AvaLilac on GitHub

This is not a bug There is no federation between instances as of now. Self hosts cant talk to the main instance, Which is why you get that. it is just not supported. Federation might be planned for the future. there are channels about it in fluxer labs, But It does not currently exist. So any links you paste from fluxer will not work in a selfhosted instance. as self hosts can only talk to itself. cant talk to fluxer So no bug, Just not a thing. because selfhosting does not mean auto federation

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RexSystem 1 vote 1mo ago originally by @DanielKovalevich on GitHub OP

It's not about federation. It's just that the link should still allow you to go to instance, if possible. It is just a message link after all. Confirmed as a bug by Hampus: https://web.canary.fluxer.app/channels/1427764813854588940/1516372227916824576/1544818772492161024

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RexSystem 1 vote 1mo ago originally by @AvaLilac on GitHub

It's not about federation. It's just that the link should still allow you to go to instance, if possible. It is just a message link after all. Confirmed as a bug by Hampus: https://web.canary.fluxer.app/channels/1427764813854588940/1516372227916824576/1544818772492161024

It does?

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HampusStaff 1 vote 1mo ago originally by @hampus-fluxer on GitHub

The bug here is that web.fluxer.app etc. are hardcoded as message links in the app. It's easily fixed!

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