Best way to search for new communities

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.

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bazsalanszky@lemmy.toldi.eu · 15 pts · 2y (3 replies)

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

El_Rocha@lm.put.tf · 4 pts · 2y (2 replies)

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!

bazsalanszky@lemmy.toldi.eu · 5 pts · 2y (1 reply)

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

El_Rocha@lm.put.tf · 4 pts · 2y

Alright, thank you so much again.

Erunn@lemdro.id · 7 pts · 2y

I understood your case, so I don't know if this will helps anyhow, but I just wanted to suggest https://lemmyverse.net/communities as well.

Really great site to search for communities and instances, with available filtering.

Krapulaolut@sopuli.xyz · 4 pts · 2y (3 replies)

Try community browser: https://browse.feddit.de

El_Rocha@lm.put.tf · 12 pts · 2y (2 replies)

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.

Black_Gulaman@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 2y (1 reply)

I support this.

reallyzen@unilem.org · 3 pts · 2y

This is going to be my next requested feature to the Connect android app. They are super-reactive, squashing bugs in 24h or less, and adding features as fast also.