How does the search function work and why does it sometimes not work from different instances when searching All?
In other words -
- I search for a community that exists on Lemmy instance A (e.g. midwest.social) from Lemmy instance B (e.g. lemmy.ml) and it finds it.
- I search for that same community from Lemmy instance C (e.g. lemmy.one), and it doesn’t find it.
- Lemmy instance A, B, and C are all connected / federated.
To add to the other answers, when you search for the community that isn’t registered yet, it will take 10 seconds or so for it to appear in the search, slower than everything else. You also have to type out the full name to register it.
This question is more suited to [email protected] - see rule 3
I’m assuming “Ask Lemmy” is like “Ask Reddit” where there is supposed to be an implied concept that you mean “Ask Lemmy Community”, and the word “Community” isn’t explicit.
Right now the community description on the right sidebar says “A loosely moderated place to ask open ended questions”… it may be beneficial to make that more verbose: “A loosely moderated place to ask open ended questions to the Lemmy community of users”. Not to say newcomers will read that ;)
haha truth be told I’ve had an issue with that sidebar for months.
