Hi, I noticed that the community search function doesn’t work that well. Sometimes I can find communities I’m looking for, but other times I can’t; even when I know they exist on other instances. Are these just part of the growing pains?

    • j2sunOP
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      2 years ago

      Thank you! This is really helpful. There are still some communities that are 404ing, but it’s probably part of the growing pains.

  • mikehunt@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    It only works for me (when pasting the full url of the community in the search box) if I select “All” instead of “Communities”

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      2 years ago

      Yeah that’s the problem. I’m trying to search because I don’t know the URL in the first place :/ I guess I’ll have to use another instance’s search.

  • greg@lemm.ee
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    2 years ago

    After searching the first time, wait a few minutes and search again, it will probably show up. I had the same issue yesterday and apparently you need to do this the first time a remote community is accessed from a local instance.

  • Rumblestiltskin
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    2 years ago

    I find you have to search twice. Paste ! [email protected], click search, wait, click inside the text input where you pasted then click search again. This will get any community.