searching for communities that exist but haven't been cached - eviltoast

My biggest gripe with *lemmy is the community search only brings up communities that have already been cached by the instance you’re on

At first I would search for communities and be shocked that there’s so many that don’t exist until I realized I have to manually go on my browser and type myserverurl/c/communityIFoundSomewhereElse@ItsInstance if im the first one from my instance to want to sub to that community

Is there a site that can search all communities that this app can communicate to, then force my instance to cache from a search result?

Would make this app really stand out

  • CoachDom@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    22·
    1 year ago

    It’s not app specific - that’s just how the Lemmy code works at the moment.

    For this specific reason, Lemmy integrated search feature is fundamentally broken at the moment, so you should be using https://lemmyverse.net/

    When I first joined my instance I couldn’t see any Xbox communities so I created one. It got a little following, but then I found out there were already two communities literally called Xbox but no one from my instance joined before, so I couldn’t see them.

    • cjoll4@lemmy.fmhy.ml
      5·
      1 year ago

      Holy shit, you just blew my mind. Thank you so much for sharing this. Turns out there are so many communities for topics I’ve been searching for that I couldn’t find before.

      It has been such a fucking frustrating experience migrating to Lemmy from Reddit. Nothing is easy or intuitive. Nothing just works straight out of the box.

      EDIT: Case in point, I found a community on lemmyverse, clicked the link to open it in Jerboa, and it stuck me in a loop where pushing the back arrow did nothing but load the same page over and over again. Had to kill the app and re-launch it. Yay.