Hello,

I have subscribed to a few communities already (some on other instances, like lemmy.ml ou beehaw), but some communities cannot be accessed from here, even tough other communities from the same instance are available.

For example, I cannot access [email protected] from here, even though I can access other communities from lemmy.ml here, and the community is accessible from other instances (like feddit.de: https://feddit.de/c/[email protected]). I only get a 404 error: https://sh.itjust.works/c/[email protected]

Is there any reason why? Maybe related to load issues @lemmy.ml?

  • SauceEnglish
    1•1 year ago

    Interesting, got a 404 last time I tried that. Thanks!

    • @PriorProjectEnglish
      5•1 year ago

      I find that searching by community string never actually returns any results. It’s essential to make the search in order to add the community to the communities list, but you don’t find anything useful that way.

      But AFTER doing the community string search, I can do a keyword search and it works. So each of these searches is from the communities page on the instance where you have your account…

      1. Search motogp, get no results because the community isn’t known to your local instance.
      2. Search !motogp@lemmy.world, get no results… because… I dunno. Because we can’t have nice things is why.
      3. Search motogp again and it works because now the community is known to your instance.

      I though the blahaj post was giving this same advice, but their steps are subtly different. Try the above if the sticky posts advice doesn’t get it done for you.

      Edit: I just tried the blahaj instructions and they DO work for me. Searching the bang-prefixed community with the “type” constrained to “communities” (or anything other than all) returns nothing. But searching the bang-prefixed community string with types set to “all” does return the community. No idea why it doesn’t get returned when constrained to communities, seems like a bug.

        • @PriorProjectEnglish
          1•1 year ago

          Yeah, I just learned that today when making this comment. For the longest time it never occurred to me to set it to all… since… like… I’m definitely searching for a community. But lemmy disagrees I guess.

          • @[email protected]English
            2•1 year ago

            yeah it took me a while to even register that those buttons were important lol. Hopefully it can get polished up a bit

    • @[email protected]English
      3•1 year ago

      It could be that the instance was down/overloaded. For example, I have been trying to connect to [email protected] today, but lemmy.ml is down. I can see and comment on existing posts from lemmy.ml though, so I’m interested to see how that works once it’s back on-line (i.e. will it eventually show up?).

      Good luck, maybe try again later! FWIW, I do see that community now, so I guess it got cached when @Orygin accessed it.