Why does the search function not function?
I search for 'history' and zero results. I know for a fact there are history communities on other instances, why can't I find them using the search feature?
I search for 'history' and zero results. I know for a fact there are history communities on other instances, why can't I find them using the search feature?
You need to put the full url of the sublemmy you are looking for into the search box.
That will then cache it against the instance and we will all then see it in search.
Content from the sublemmy may take some time to load after, potentially a few hours.
If you don’t know the sub you are looking for, google search it to try and get its url from there.
This is documented in the Lemmy manual, I had to do it myself
Presumably this is something lemmy is gonna want to address at some point as that's way too much work for the average user
It’s just growing pains for any new instance, once seen it’s there forever.
As more and more sublemmys are cached, the issue will go away on its own I think.
Automated caching should be developed though yes
Ok I just went to browse.feddit.de and typed in 'wrestling', copied the url https://sopuli.xyz/c/wrestling and pasted it in this instances search but got nowt
How long did you wait? After putting it in the search bar? The UI defo needs some more feedback for things like this. Takes a few seconds to a minute when I did.
I’m trying this myself too, will let you know I’m if successful, taking a lot longer than I expected but it’s not come up with no results found yet
Search is garbage but it does work. If I search for another community that Feddit doesn't have yet it first returns "No results", then that goes away, then nothing happens, so I go to feddit.uk/c/<community>@<instance> and it's there. Search should just show what it's fetched.
This is more or less still an alpha product for now. We are all part of a large experiment.
Being FOSS technology though it’s understandable. Bitcoin is FOSS and look at how that’s developed over the years.