I'm on lemmy.ml, and I want to subscribe to https://lemmy.world/c/songaweek. There it says to put !songaweek@lemmy.world into search on my instance to subscribe, but it doesn't turn up anything. Anyone know why this might be, and/or how to work around it?
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poVoq@slrpnk.net · 7 pts · 3y
If no one ever subscribed to that community it can take a few seconds for the server to fetch it. Just wait a bit or try again.
pr06lefs@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 3y
I've tried a bunch of times, searching for "!songaweek@lemmy.world" in communities, with 'all' selected. Pretty consistently nothing for me. Does it come up for you?
poVoq@slrpnk.net · 1 pts · 3y
Works without problems here. Try searching the actual URL
https://lemmy.world/c/songaweekpr06lefs@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 3y
You mean it works for you with “!songaweek@lemmy.world”? For me the url works but the ! address does not. If the ! address searching is broken, isn't that a problem?
poVoq@slrpnk.net · 1 pts · 3y
Searching for that works here as well.
Ocelot@lemmies.world · 1 pts · 3y
You might need to click search a couple times. It usually only takes a few seconds but if the other server is down or they can’t otherwise can’t communicate temporarily or otherwise you might not be able to find it.
pr06lefs@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 3y
Repeated searching isn't helping, and their webserver is working at https://lemmy.world/c/songaweek. There are other lemmy.world communities showing up in my feed. Hmmm
Ocelot@lemmies.world · 1 pts · 3y
it could be that the two instances cant talk to each other, or are perhaps rate limited. Are you able to connect from a different source instance?
pr06lefs@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 3y
Tried here and that didn't get any results either. Nor do I get any results for !memes@lemmy.world "https://lemmy.ml/search?q=!memes%40lemmy.world&type=Communities" which is weird since I see those posts on my lemmy.ml feed.
Ocelot@lemmies.world · 2 pts · 3y
weird. doesnt work for me either. Lemmy.world had some recent downtime maybe some functionality is still broken atm.
kjwill@lemmy.kjwill.tech · 2 pts · 3y
I was running into that too, then I tried pasting the https link to the community (for you, https://lemmy.world/c/songaweek) into the search bar and that worked. Just heads up you usually need to wait up to 30 seconds after pressing the “Search” button for the result to appear
pr06lefs@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 3y
Ok that works - came up in about a second for me. Thx!