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Nordiesta 🌌 @europe.pub

3w ago

Few Communities Are Not Shown

Some communities such as below don't show up when search (I tried with exact full ! And @) like below

It is replicated in multiple frontends including default lemmy-UI and photon-beta

5 comments

Interesting. I'll investigate and get back to you.
- @nordiesta@europe.pub I've created a bug report on the Lemmy GitHub project. I'll get back to you as soon as the issue is resolved!
  
  @nordiesta@europe.pub It should work now.
  However, there's a known issue when fetching communities by name if a user account exists with the same username. Lemmy uses the ! symbol for both usernames and communities, which causes ambiguity.
  To avoid this problem, you should use the full community URL instead of the !name@instance format when searching. This ensures the server correctly interprets your request as targeting a community rather than a user.
  Examples:
  !raining@sh.itjust.works → https://sh.itjust.works/c/raining
  !pixelart@retrolemmy.com → https://retrolemmy.com/c/pixelart
  !Eevee@pawb.social → https://pawb.social/c/Eevee
  Using the URL format avoids confusion and ensures consistent results.