[email protected] clearly exists (see https://programming.dev/c/programming), but I can’t seem to find it in Lemmy.world’s search bar.
I see that “someone needs to search” for a community for it to appear in the search bar. Furthermore, if I go to “lemmy.world/c/[email protected]”, I can see and subscribe to that instance just fine.
I’m just worried about discoverability. How was I supposed to even discover [email protected] if this instance didn’t know about it?
When you do the search in your instance, sometimes it works better to search for (for example) “https://programming.dev/c/programming” instead of “[email protected]”. Using the full URL seems to work better. I don’t know why. And sometimes you have click search more than one time for it to show up.
Still some bugs to be worked out here, lol.
Searching the full url forces a federation update.
Yeah, looks like I just didn’t wait long enough after hitting the “Subscribe” button. I guess Lemmy.world has queues and tasks and a bunch of background processing before things show up in Search.
Thank you. Clicking search more than once is what seemed to work for me.