Basically anything I copy won’t paste into the app. The exception is when I copy a link from an app like YouTube and paste it directly into Connect. But if I paste the same link into a notes app and copy the url from there, nothing happens when I try to paste in Connect.

I’m on a Galaxy S9, Android version 10.

  • ⓝⓞ🅞🅝🅔@beehaw.org
    2·
    1 year ago

    Basically anything I copy won’t paste into the app. The exception is when I copy a link from an app like YouTube and paste it directly into Connect. But if I paste the same link into a notes app and copy the url from there, nothing happens when I try to paste in Connect.

    I’m on a Galaxy S9, Android version 10.

    Just copied your message from the post menu and posted in the text box.

    When I have paste issues, is almost always the keyboard app. Just a thought.

    • UliOP
      1·
      1 year ago

      Just copied your message from the post menu and posted in the text box.

      Yeah, it seems I can copy/paste from/to Connect just fine, just not from most other apps into Connect. It makes me wonder if Connect copies text as markdown, because one of the only other apps I can use to copy into Connect is Obsidian, which is a markdown-based notes application.

      I wish it was just the keyboard, but I swapped Samsung’s keyboard out for Google’s and still can’t paste. Honestly surprised it’s not a more common issue. I’ll keep trying things and post back here if anything changes. I can live with copying things into Obsidian before bringing them here as a workaround, but ideally we can find root cause, so future less tech-savvy users aren’t dissuaded from using lemmy.

      • ⓝⓞ🅞🅝🅔@beehaw.org
        1·
        1 year ago

        I just posted and article into connect and it did have some weird NL CR behavior in a couple spots.

        Testing: from Megalodon (Mastodon)

        HOW TO SURVIVE THE HEATWAVE:

        1. Stay hydrated.
        2. Have an ice cream cone.
        3. Dismantle the fossil fuel industry which is literally burning the planet for the short term profit of a vanishingly small capitalist class.
        4. Wear loose clothing.

        Testing: From Whatsapp

        Still alive?

        Testing: from WPS Office

        Thank you so much for the response!

        Testing: from Joplin (also markdown based notes)

        Don’t Duck With paste. https://beehaw.org/comment/713529

        Hmmm. 🤷‍♂️

        I’m using Android 9.

        What’s your markdown setting set to? Mine is:

        • UliOP
          1·
          1 year ago

          Mine looks the same.

          Very odd.