I need some help to figure out how I can search for new communities that are not yet cached on my instance.

If just search by !somecommunity@someinstance or the url, it just comes up empty everytime.

The only app I managed to get this working smoothly from the ones I tried is Voyager.

  • Bazsalanszky@lemmy.toldi.euM
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    10 months ago

    In theory, you can use the ‘Go to community’ option from the more options menu and enter the community qualified name without the ‘!’ character.

    In the future, I want to add an ‘explore communities’ option that would search for communities on sites like https://lemmyverse.net

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      10 months ago

      That’s the exact option I was searching for!

      Thank you so much.

      Do you think in the future it could have a character parser to also accept with the “!” character? That would make it a lot easier because it would just be copy-paste from places like lemmyverse.

      Keep up the good work!

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        Do you think in the future it could have a character parser to also accept with the “!” character? That would make it a lot easier because it would just be copy-paste from places like lemmyverse.

        Yeah, It has been on my todo list for a while now. I think it should be in the next patch

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      10 months ago

      I know that there are community browsers, but my point is for, when I find a community I want to subscribe, I want to do it inside the app instead of having to go to my instance’s web version.