Hey everyone :) First ever post in the metav-…I mean fediverse!! (damn you, Zucc’s PR department)
Jokes aside, this is so exciting and I can’t wait to see what lemmy will look like in a year or two. I like to believe that I’ll be still here and the explicit long-term commitment of this instance is very motivating!
Now to the problem in the title: I hope I don’t make a fool out of myself but I haven’t read anyone mentioning this while looking through the latest posts in this community. While searching for communities to subscribe to, I noticed that some don’t appear in the search results when searching from the lemm.ee instance. Specifically I was trying to subscribe to the [email protected] community or the [email protected] community.
Am I alone? Am I doing something wrong? Did I miss something? Every help is appreciated.
In the search bar, put an ! before the community like this: [email protected]
Also, wait ten seconds after hitting enter on the search, it might just be slow.
You’re right, it IS a bit slow! I’ve tried it again and after it said “no results” I kind of assumed it was done searching, but after 5 or so seconds the community eventually popped up. This happened while trying on lemm.ee through a browser, not through the app I was using.
I’ve read the “!” tip many times, but it just doesn’t work when using the Android app “Liftoff” or the webapp “Voyager” (yet). But in those apps one can set a search filter for communities when searching for something.
What did work was pressing on the hyperlink you generated when you typed the community with an “!” in front of it, so I guess that’s another way to reach a community. Anyways, thanks for all your help!