Currently searching for existing communities on other instances doesn’t always show results (if no user on your instance has already subscribed).

A workaround I have found is to search for a post from that community, after which you can access the community via the link near the username of the OP.

From there you can subscribe.

  • MooniyawOP
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    12 years ago

    I tried this and it didn’t work, which is why I’m suggesting this approach

    • Kinetix
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      22 years ago

      How long did you wait for a result? Checking on this method, I can see that initially it shows no results when I did a test search for https://lemmy.ml/c/aboringdystopia, but after several seconds, it appeared on the result page.

      Took awhile when searching for [email protected] as well. So, it seems to be happening, just not terribly quickly at the moment.

      • MooniyawOP
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        22 years ago

        Impatience then is it? Lol I think you’re right!

        • Kinetix
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          22 years ago

          Heh, possibly!

          I think there’s a bit of clumsiness with it at the moment (it would be great if there was a visual indicator that it was still working on grabbing the details on the backend, or whatever), could be worthwhile checking to see if there’s an issue filed for improving that.

    • Lionel C-R
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      12 years ago

      That’s odd, it works perfectly for me, that’s even what gave me the idea of a script to retrieve all the communities from an instance.

      • MooniyawOP
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        12 years ago

        yeah, it may have been impatience on my part. Great script idea, btw!