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@Percy It's not ideal, but you can also manually form the URL to load the instance if it's not yet turning up in a search.
Basically the format is like this
mylemmy.domain/c/[email protected]
So to view [email protected] from my home lemmy instance of blahaj.zone, I would type the following
https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/c/[email protected]
And to view it from lemmy.one, you would type the following (though I can't test this one)
https://lemmy.one/c/[email protected]
This doesn't work in my experience (although I wish it did). The only reliable way I've seen to trigger a fetch is to enter the community URL (e.g. https://midwest.social/c/projectzomboid) or the ID (e.g. [[email protected]](/c/[email protected])) in your Lemmy instance's /search page.
The only reliable way I’ve seen to trigger a fetch is to enter the community URL (e.g. https://midwest.social/c/projectzomboid) or the ID (e.g. [email protected]) in your Lemmy instance’s /search page.
This matches my experience exactly, though only one user has to do it and if someone else does the search while you're messing around with other things it can occasionally FEEL like something else did it but then it won't reproduce a second time.
I've tried going to the website page multiple times and it always leads to this and using the syntax in the search function it just doesn't show up
It leads to a 404 page
I'm not sure if you're experiencing the same issue I did... but when I was setting up my community subscriptions on a new instance where few folks had done that before, I encountered some confusing (to me) patterns around when remote communities become available for search or browsing in the local instance's community list. I wrote up my observations at https://lemmy.world/comment/505.
Maybe this will help you figure out how to get a given remote community to show up in your instance's community list. Though the fact that you're talking about the bang-prefixed strings make me thing if my solution was going to work for you it already would have. But check out the comment and see if it helps.
I can't comment on your other post because it doesn't load in my instance (another issue I don't fully understand...), but I just wanted to say thank you. Now that I know what to look for, your description matches what I see exactly.
One detail I would add is that the lemmy search can say "No Results" while it's still fetching in the background, so in the "Time 1" scenario, Janet may well see the result pop up if she just waits a little while even though the search looks like it has already completed.
One detail I would add is that the lemmy search can say “No Results” while it’s still fetching in the background...
Whoah, that's news to me. I updated the comment to reflect that new info and uncertainty about the possible results. Thanks to you too for that info.
The specific community is causing issues for me too. I can view it in my instance (feddit.de) but I cannot see comments and also cannot post anything.
Going to the website itself leads. Go a 404 page
Normally you'd paste the URL [email protected] in the search field on lemmy.one, then you should be able to find projectzomboid lemmy.one -> Communities
I just tried it on reddthat.com. It worked for [email protected] and [email protected], but not for [email protected]
Some people have said the same thing of not being able to find it in some communities but not others. Following the same steps
From my account on lemmy.blahaj.zone it's showing up when I search it, maybe it's just some delay from server load on lemmy.one? Some of the instances are doubling or tripling in userbase the past week.