When typing or trying to use the ! it never works. I have to go to the communities from my instance then find it then I can see it and subscribe. When i logged out for testing i couldn’t do anything either. is this normal. or are the servers full right now since the migration from Reddit?
Thanks
Did you just type the exclamation point and wait? If so, know that you have to type a few characters before it will start searching.
Yeah I found that just searching for the URL of the community would show it, while searching for !comm@instance.com wouldn’t, even though both will federate the community from a different instance.
We need to try to sub to a whole lot more communities so we can reduce the need for the next wave to have to do this…right?
Don’t know. I’m new here. I created my sub already. I think even I posted this when I didn’t know how to use lemmy. Now I’m up and about using it like a pro 😃
I know right. I’m about 24 hours old now, and I’m grandpa yelling at clouds already.
Nice chatting. going to go read some documentation on lemmy so I can get better at it
That was instant
So how does it work. you do !sub@subinstance then it should find it right?
If you’re the first person on your instance to look up that particular sub (community) from a different instance, it will take 10-30 seconds to before it shows up in your search, and you might need to hit search again. Or, after your first search, go to Commities -> All and search again, it should be there immediately
It’s a known bug, the developers are looking to streamline the process
I’m having a lot of trouble trying to understand why you attempted, what happened, and how that violated your expectations. But check out https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/61827. It’s the gold standard guide for how to discover new communities in ways that DO work.
Thanks for the feedback and the link. Will look into it right now
I haven’t tried that way because it seems very tedious to do on mobile so this is how I do it:
I go here https://browse.feddit.de/ copy the link (by clicking the name) and put it in the search bar. Sometimes does it take 30 Seconds. But it is pretty quick. But I may click twice just in case.
Also you must set the search to all
