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Can't find communities from other lemmy instances through the search (mtgzone.com)

submitted 1 year ago by Brage@mtgzone.com to c/mtg@mtgzone.com

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Am I doing something wrong? It seems to me that we ought to be able to find communities from other instances by searching for them, but I don't really see much when I search. Sometimes some communities show up, but it seems to be only communities I've visited before or something?

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[–] andrew@mtgzone.com 2 points 1 year ago (4 children)

If you could let me know what you’re searching for I can take a closer look, but essentially on the search page the fastest way to locate a community on another server is to type the url of that community (for example, https://mtgzone.com/c/mtg) or it’s Lemmy address (!mtg@mtgzone.com).

I’ll write up a getting started guide as well on this and searching/connecting/interacting with other Lemmy websites.

[–] Brage@mtgzone.com 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If I search for [!linux@beehaw.org](/c/linux@beehaw.org) I find this comment, but not the actual community

[–] GalaxyGamer@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

!linux@beehaw.org doesn't seem to exist

[–] Brage@mtgzone.com 2 points 1 year ago

Well, then.. I guess I got pranked when I found that comment by searching for [!chat@beehaw.org](/c/chat@beehaw.org)

[–] Arcus@mtgzone.com 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

A guide would be great . Thank you!

[–] Brage@mtgzone.com 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Searching for [!mtg@lemmy.ml](/c/mtg@lemmy.ml) yields no results

[–] saxocat@mtgzone.com 1 points 1 year ago

You can see at the bottom of mtgzone's modlog ( https://mtgzone.com/modlog ) that the admins removed that community. Idk why, possibly to avoid confusion, maybe they see this and can answer.

[–] GalaxyGamer@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

That one I do get results for

(alrhough sometimes it will say no results and then if you click next to go the next page it will look again and find it)

[–] Brage@mtgzone.com 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I see. There's probably some caching for the search function that doesn't contain absolutely everything at any given time (since that is rather intensive).

[–] TroopDupeScoop@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think it might be something up with specifically mtgzone.com? I've made comments in !legacy@mtgzone.com, but I don't see them unless I specifically come through my "home" instance of lemmy.ml? Unless I'm misunderstanding?

[–] attemptX@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Same here, my account is on lemmy.world and don't appear when I go to mtgzone.com