I am wondering why I can’t find some communities when searching the app with the full !community@server. Searching for the same community on the web page works.
Have you tried just searching their name?
Can you give me an example and I will try on mine.
I’m able to search although it is a bit finicky. I find I have to go to the dotted hamburger menu, then go to the search field then type in something, then delete what I typed. Finally once I’ve done all that all the communities show up and I can start searching using key words.
Check out section 2 of the find and subscribe section of https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/61827.
Notably, searching the “community” type for the fully specified community name returns nothing. You have to search the “all” type. I have no idea why this is the case, it makes no sense. But if jerboa is searching the “community”, which would make sense for that searchbox… you’d expect no results to be returned.
If your instance knows about the community, a keyword search will probably work, using just the name part of the community without the bang and server bits.
I wish there was just a way to browse all linked communities like you can in a browser.
Which app are you using?
this is literally the community of one specific application…
/r/lostredditers … errr um… c/lostlemmlings