It’s excruciatingly obnoxious to have to rely on third party sources for what should be a first-party feature.
Like, I select all and then search a query. “Oh no, nobody on your server used a third party service to find it, so you won’t see it here.”
Like, how short-sighted is that, really? If I search for a string in the ‘all’ servers, I should have a list of ‘all’ the servers containing that string.
It’s a really simple concept. Not sure why this post even has to be made, but I’m wondering if there’s something I can do to make these ‘features’ more intuitive.
https://www.search-lemmy.com
There really should be a link to this on every instance/communities page with a note that if users really want to see “all” communities, they must use a 3rd party search tool to do it.
I added this to every community I mod with my alts, not that much but it’s something to increase the visibility of the search engine