[email protected] Is the latest one I’ve found. I can find it if I go to my instance in the web, but not within the app.

  • MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz
    10·
    2 years ago

    The first time someone on an instance enters the name of a community, is when the instance goes and looks for it. Until then, that particular community is not federated to the local instance, and it is as if it does not exist.

    Searching for a community in Jerboa, does not seem trigger this establishing of a connection.

    • OverfedRaccoon 🦝@lemmy.world
      4·
      2 years ago

      I wonder how many communities on smaller (or even larger) instances there are that people just don’t know about because they didn’t know to look for them.

  • 🇦🇺Baku
    2·
    2 years ago

    I’ve found this mainly happens when trying to search for communities on other instances

    • kakes
      1·
      2 years ago

      I’m guessing this arises from that community not being shared with your home instance yet? Or some similar desync issue.

  • unknowing8343@discuss.tchncs.de
    1·
    2 years ago

    Yep, sadly that happens, currently I just go to my instance’s website, search it there (wait a few seconds because it takes a while) and subscribe there. I’ll see it reflected in Jerboa soon enough.

    • OverfedRaccoon 🦝@lemmy.world
      0·
      2 years ago

      I can sometimes get them to populate if I do it twice or change it from Communities to All in the search filters. Other times, it just takes an extra 5-10 seconds after returning no results.

      • TootSweet@latte.isnot.coffee
        1·
        2 years ago

        I’m on latte.isnot.coffee and I just searched both !jerboa@lemmy.ml and https://lemmy.ml/c/jerboa and didn’t get results for either. Neither has a message saying that there are no search results, but neither shows any results either.

        Screenshot of latte.isnot.coffe community search interface showing no results and no "no results" message for the search term "https://lemmy.ml/c/jerboa"

        • Generator@lemmy.pt
          1·
          2 years ago

          Search by the URL https://lemmy.ml/c/jerboa, it’s faster, if you search by jerboa@lemmy.ml then you need to search again but only the community name jerboa