Hello, fellow clicks!
Since I migrated from reddit a few days ago (here to stay), I tried to find and subscribe to communities of interest. Sometimes it works, but more often it does not.
I try to
- find the community using the built in search function: “space”
- force-find the community by changing the query to: “[email protected]” or “[email protected]”
- manually construct the URL: https://lemmy.click/c/[email protected]
Neither works currently for this community, although it exists: https://lemmy.ml/c/[email protected]
Am I doing something wrong? Has this worked before all the reddit refugees came, Is it a temporary issue?
I know this one!
If you go to the search function, paste in [email protected] then search, your post pops up immediately, right? But you have to wait a few seconds for this instance to sync with the other instance (not sure about the technical details here) and the link to the community will eventually appear.
I tried it just now and it took maybe 7 seconds for the community to appear. Then you click that link, open the sidebar of that community, and subscribe.
Thank you!
Yes!! And weirdly enough, this part did it for me. I was searching for ‘Communities’, but I had to search for ‘All’. Then, not only did I see this post here, but also the community! Which would not show up when searching for communities, lol.
So with this trick, I now could subscribe to a couple of previously unreachable communities, by not searching for communities.
I know what you mean. Rarely that’s the case for me too. But some queries never yield a result. I tried for some over 24 hours on and off. Some now resolved by using ‘All’ instead of ‘Communities’.