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?

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    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

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      Presumably this is something lemmy is gonna want to address at some point as that’s way too much work for the average user

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        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

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            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

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            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.

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            It’s there now, if you just re-search ALL communities for “wrestling” you can see it now

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    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.

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      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.

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      I just discovered this a minute ago and it worked perfectly