The Community search box doesn't find other communities

3 years ago by j2sun to c/main

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?

lostmypasswordanew 5 points 3 years ago

Try https://browse.feddit.de/ to find them and then you can build your own url like this: https://<your.instance>/c/@<other.instance>. Kind of klunky, hope this gets ironed out.

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path: 0 126996, hotness: undefined, score: 5, children: 1

j2sun 2 points 3 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.

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path: 0 126996 133725, hotness: undefined, score: 2, children: 0

mikehunt 2 points 3 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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path: 0 129792, hotness: undefined, score: 2, children: 1

j2sun 1 point 3 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.

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path: 0 129792 133125, hotness: undefined, score: 1, children: 0

greg 1 point 3 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.

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path: 0 261972, hotness: undefined, score: 1, children: 0

Rumblestiltskin 1 point 3 years ago

I find you have to search twice. Paste ! community@domain.url, click search, wait, click inside the text input where you pasted then click search again. This will get any community.

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path: 0 147939, hotness: undefined, score: 1, children: 2

j2sun 2 points 3 years ago

Still two I can't seem to find using our search. Maybe you can help/try? -https://lemmy.ca/c/philippines@lemmy.world -https://lemmy.ca/c/audiobooks@lemmy.ml

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path: 0 147939 154138, hotness: undefined, score: 2, children: 1

Rumblestiltskin 1 point 3 years ago

I put in !audiobooks@lemmy.ml and !philippines@lemmy.world and I can get it. The philippines I had to wait the clicct in the input then press search a few times for it to appear.

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path: 0 147939 154138 156873, hotness: undefined, score: 1, children: 0