It works fine if I am using a lemmy.world based account, but for other instances it isn’t working. It is not just for me either, other users are reporting the same thing. What can I do to fix this?
It works fine if I am using a lemmy.world based account, but for other instances it isn’t working. It is not just for me either, other users are reporting the same thing. What can I do to fix this?
Just access the community while logged in to another instance; then it will be visible to search.
For example, it’s over there: https://programming.dev/c/juggling@lemmy.world
And it’s visible in their search: https://programming.dev/search?q=juggling&type=Communities
See the other message I have written - you should always recommend search. The URL only works if someone has already searched for that community. If you’re on a big instance, that’s almost always true, but on a smaller instance it often isn’t.
Same issue with
!digitalbioacoustics@lemmy.world
Thanks for the info, fixed now
Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn’t work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: !juggling@lemmy.world
Excellent! Thanks so much, this is precisely what I needed to learn!
The above advice isn’t perfect - in general, use Search first.
Until the first person searches for a community on your instance, your instance doesn’t know about it and the URL won’t work. Searching (usually using the !community@instance.com form) should always work.
Equally, your instance doesn’t start pulling data on a community (messages etc.) until someone subscribes to it, and then when subscribed it will sometimes take a a few hours to get it all (it should immediately start getting new posts and comments).
Excellent! Thanks so much for the info, this clears things up. I appreciate it.