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Error trying to find a community (lemmy.one)

submitted 1 year ago by Percy@lemmy.one to c/lemmy_support@lemmy.ml

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I'm trying to view !projectzomboid@midwest.social from lemmy.one but it just won't show up and lemmy.one/c/projectzomboid@midwest.social says 404 community not found when I'm able to find it on my Midwest.social account any help?

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[–] Ada@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

@Percy It's not ideal, but you can also manually form the URL to load the instance if it's not yet turning up in a search.

Basically the format is like this

mylemmy.domain/c/remotecommunityname@remoteinstance.name

So to view !projectzomboid@midwest.social from my home lemmy instance of blahaj.zone, I would type the following

https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/c/projectzomboid@midwest.social

And to view it from lemmy.one, you would type the following (though I can't test this one)

https://lemmy.one/c/projectzomboid@midwest.social

@Nyaa

[–] jonah@lemmy.one 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

This doesn't work in my experience (although I wish it did). The only reliable way I've seen to trigger a fetch is to enter the community URL (e.g. https://midwest.social/c/projectzomboid) or the ID (e.g. [!projectzomboid@midwest.social](/c/projectzomboid@midwest.social)) in your Lemmy instance's /search page.

[–] PriorProject@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

The only reliable way I’ve seen to trigger a fetch is to enter the community URL (e.g. https://midwest.social/c/projectzomboid) or the ID (e.g. !projectzomboid@midwest.social) in your Lemmy instance’s /search page.

This matches my experience exactly, though only one user has to do it and if someone else does the search while you're messing around with other things it can occasionally FEEL like something else did it but then it won't reproduce a second time.

[–] Percy@lemmy.one 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It leads to a 404 page

[–] Ada@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

@Percy Several people on lemmy.one seem to be having similar issues. It might just be a load thing

[–] Percy@lemmy.one 1 points 1 year ago

I've tried going to the website page multiple times and it always leads to this and using the syntax in the search function it just doesn't show up

[–] PriorProject@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I'm not sure if you're experiencing the same issue I did... but when I was setting up my community subscriptions on a new instance where few folks had done that before, I encountered some confusing (to me) patterns around when remote communities become available for search or browsing in the local instance's community list. I wrote up my observations at https://lemmy.world/comment/505.

Maybe this will help you figure out how to get a given remote community to show up in your instance's community list. Though the fact that you're talking about the bang-prefixed strings make me thing if my solution was going to work for you it already would have. But check out the comment and see if it helps.

[–] Wintermute@lemmy.villa-straylight.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I can't comment on your other post because it doesn't load in my instance (another issue I don't fully understand...), but I just wanted to say thank you. Now that I know what to look for, your description matches what I see exactly.

One detail I would add is that the lemmy search can say "No Results" while it's still fetching in the background, so in the "Time 1" scenario, Janet may well see the result pop up if she just waits a little while even though the search looks like it has already completed.

[–] PriorProject@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

One detail I would add is that the lemmy search can say “No Results” while it’s still fetching in the background...

Whoah, that's news to me. I updated the comment to reflect that new info and uncertainty about the possible results. Thanks to you too for that info.

[–] honk@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago

The specific community is causing issues for me too. I can view it in my instance (feddit.de) but I cannot see comments and also cannot post anything.

[–] Nyaa@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

From my account on lemmy.blahaj.zone it's showing up when I search it, maybe it's just some delay from server load on lemmy.one? Some of the instances are doubling or tripling in userbase the past week.

[–] klangcola@reddthat.com 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Normally you'd paste the URL !projectzomboid@midwest.social in the search field on lemmy.one, then you should be able to find projectzomboid lemmy.one -> Communities

I just tried it on reddthat.com. It worked for !askmidwest@midwest.social and !technology@midwest.social, but not for !projectzomboid@midwest.social

[–] Percy@lemmy.one 1 points 1 year ago

Some people have said the same thing of not being able to find it in some communities but not others. Following the same steps

[–] Percy@lemmy.one 1 points 1 year ago

Going to the website itself leads. Go a 404 page

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