My biggest gripe with *lemmy is the community search only brings up communities that have already been cached by the instance you’re on

At first I would search for communities and be shocked that there’s so many that don’t exist until I realized I have to manually go on my browser and type myserverurl/c/communityIFoundSomewhereElse@ItsInstance if im the first one from my instance to want to sub to that community

Is there a site that can search all communities that this app can communicate to, then force my instance to cache from a search result?

Would make this app really stand out

  • andyquest@sh.itjust.worksOP
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    1 year ago

    Nah I’m not saying to force my one instance to cache all communities

    I’m saying a feature on the app that lets me search all communities in a site that already indexes them, like lemmyverse

    And then once I’ve found thr community ive searched for, a feature to load just that one community from my instance to add it to my subs or peruse, not every community.

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      1 year ago

      ah sorry my bad, misunderstood your post. I agree then, sounds like a useful feature.

      Be sure to check out the github issues for jerboa there might already be someone asking for this.

      If not, you should think about creating one. It will have a better chance of devs responding than here.