This may be more of a client-side problem but the searching capabilities of mbin as a whole are so dreadfully bad. whenever i need to find a person or a community i first try fedia for good mesure yet most of the time it’s not worth it as it doesn’t show me what i want, afterwards i go into lemmy or mastodon find the thing i was looking for input it into the url and only then can i follow the person or community. And for apps like interstellar it’s even worse since you can’t input an url so you have to do it by logging into the browser version first. It’s even harder to find people since for whatever reason magazines isn’t showing them at all most of the time and the people option doesn’t include a search option so your best bet is using global search for a chance that the specific person has been tagged in a post somewhere in the abise… Sorry for the gramatical errors btw. Oh and you can’t follow hastags in mbin from what i have seen and tried…
Its not just a fedia or mbin issue.
Experienced the same on lemmy a few times already. Depending on the size of the instance and the followed communities on there it can be difficult to find communities and people here as well. I just had that a few days ago where I searched for a specific post I knew existed, and I tried to find it couple of times, experimenting around. Once I copied the url I was able to follow, but I still couldn’t see the comments, as this maybe needs a bit of time. It’s all a huge mess, which can be frustrating.
Maybe it’s better trying be patient and to find ways to work around it. I sometimes check out other instances, e.g. fedia.io and just explore from there as I’m curious to see what’s new. Way easier to just do this in the browser. Issues with clients sound familiar as well.
Magazines should be able to follow hashtags at least, as far as I know.
