One potential downside is that the subscriber number actually is just the people who subscribe to that community from your instance and not all instances. This will need a patch from Lemmy itself to fix. As it is it’s a bit misleading, like maybe one Android community seems bigger, but actually it’s just more people from the instance you are using, and not more people overall - there is no current way to know.
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CylonBunny@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 3y
One potential downside is that the subscriber number actually is just the people who subscribe to that community from your instance and not all instances. This will need a patch from Lemmy itself to fix. As it is it’s a bit misleading, like maybe one Android community seems bigger, but actually it’s just more people from the instance you are using, and not more people overall - there is no current way to know.
ShinetheMoment@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 3y
That makes it tough to find the biggest communities. I wonder if they(Lemmy) are working on this.
SoonerMagic@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 3y
Second. Like the idea. Here is how wefwef/Voyager does it.
Ability to sort by subscriber count too would be nice.
NuclearNoggin@lemmy.fmhy.ml · 4 pts · 3y
there is a feature request for this on GitHub
FlaxPicker@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 3y
yea i added it a couple days ago. Would be great if they implemented something to that effect.
ebits21@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 3y
Results used to have this but search was rewritten without it. Maybe planned again?