community search needs some serious work
community search needs some serious work
When I go search for communities I pretty much never get results even if I know certain communities exist. I think the search is only searching the titles maybe? Needs to search the description at least and have fairly loose matching results. Otherwise it'll come to a point where you have to slog through lists and lists and lists.
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Copy/pasting from another comment I made, hopefully helpful. Written for my instance, but the idea still applies:
In the “All” feed and in the community search, you will see every community that at least one person on this instance has subscribed to.
If you want to subscribe to a community that is not from a blocked instance that nobody has subscribed to yet, you need to follow these steps:
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Get the full URL of the community (for example, https://lemmy.sdf.org/c/retrocomputing). You can search for communities in the community browser or in lemmy.directory.
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Open the “Communities” page at the top of the website
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Paste the full URL into the search, switch all search settings to “All”
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Wait 5-10 seconds for our instance to pull in the community from that site
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Click the federated link it gives you (https://sh.itjust.works/c/retrocomputing@lemmy.sdf.org, for example) and subscribe.
That community will now always have the latest posts, comments and vote totals pulled in as soon as the other instance publishes them
EDIT: Should probably mention that as soon as Kbin sorts our their technical difficulties, then you can use this exact approach to pull in Kbin magazines (https://kbin.social/m/cs, for example)
EDIT: Should probably mention that as soon as Kbin sorts our their technical difficulties, then you can use this exact approach to pull in Kbin magazines (https://kbin.social/m/cs, for example)
Is that why I can't do the same thing from Kbin to a lemmy community?
Kbin, at least theoretically, sorted out their stuff yesterday. Sorry, haven't looked at Kbin as a user yet, don't know how to pull in communities on your end.
yeah see that's not working for me at all on lemmy.one. I can search now on that feddit but can't figure out how to subscribe because search just returns nothing no matter what I put in
Make sure you have all of the search settings on "All". It doesn't work if the search is set to "Communities".
ah yes that did it thank you
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