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I tried to sign in to Lemmy.ca with the account I created on the Lemmy.ml and it didn't work. Any reason for this? (I am very new to Lemmy and am still learning how to use/understand how all the instances work)

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 years ago (1 children)

Lets say you like this community, and want to subscribe to it: https://lemmy.ca/c/canada

From this instance, go to the search bar and type [[email protected]](/c/[email protected])

Click subscribe.

Now you see and can interact with everything that gets posted to that community. No need to make 2 accounts.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 years ago (1 children)

I don't know if this has been discussed already, my apologies if it has, but I feel that specific search syntax for communities discovery isn't very noob friendly. I don't know if most people would know they have to do it in that email format, let alone they should add an exclamation point before it. Maybe either a small syntax notice should be added next to the search bar or maybe just have additional syntax in the form of ”[email protected]” and ”instance.tld/c/community” do the job as well? I'm aware this would return regular results as well (preferably below the community), but no harm in that as far as I can tell. If the search would add unnecessary load on the infrastructure just add a small prompt below the community ”Did you mean to search for ”instance.tld/c/community” in the content (posts and comments)? Click here." Certainly far more intuitive for new users. Just my 2 cents.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 years ago (1 children)

You can also enter the community url in the search box, and it will work. Same for post, comment and user URLs.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 years ago* (last edited 4 years ago) (1 children)

Oh, I see, the ”https://” part is necessary, I tried it without before and it didn't work.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 years ago (1 children)

Right, it has to be the full URL.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 years ago (1 children)

Makes sense. I guess I was subconsciously going off of how linking to just r/subreddit works on reddit. The URL version is sufficiently noob friendly tho, I think.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 years ago

We could also add support for that, feel free to open an issue.