I am wondering why I can’t find some communities when searching the app with the full !community@server. Searching for the same community on the web page works.

  • PriorProject@lemmy.world
    2·
    1 year ago

    Check out section 2 of the find and subscribe section of https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/61827.

    Notably, searching the “community” type for the fully specified community name returns nothing. You have to search the “all” type. I have no idea why this is the case, it makes no sense. But if jerboa is searching the “community”, which would make sense for that searchbox… you’d expect no results to be returned.

    If your instance knows about the community, a keyword search will probably work, using just the name part of the community without the bang and server bits.

  • Nora
    1·
    1 year ago

    Have you tried just searching their name?

    Can you give me an example and I will try on mine.

    I’m able to search although it is a bit finicky. I find I have to go to the dotted hamburger menu, then go to the search field then type in something, then delete what I typed. Finally once I’ve done all that all the communities show up and I can start searching using key words.

    • nobloat@vlemmy.netOP
      1·
      1 year ago

      I searched for keywords first but it gives no results. It’s usually for new communities. For example folkmetal@discuss.tchncs.de or frankzappa@lemmy.world. Some older communities aren’t there was well. Some of those listed on Browse Feddit cannot be found. When searching on the web version with the full community@server they show up but not when using app search

  • mountainCalledMonkey@vlemmy.net
    1·
    1 year ago

    Same issue as OP - no searches yield results for me whether it’s keyword, name, full name, or http link.

    Searching the same communities on the website works fine.