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.

  • Kinetix
    2·
    3 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
      2·
      3 years ago

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

      • Kinetix
        2·
        3 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.