Yesterday I learned about https://lemmy.ca/c/ontario_community_directory (edit: I got a wrong link somewhere – this one should have been https://lemmy.ca/c/ontario_index) and my local city sub of https://lemmy.ca/c/waterloo. I can’t find them in magazine search (eg, https://kbin.social/magazines?q=waterloo). They’re not brand new (several days).

If I visit the URL I expect them to have (eg, https://kbin.social/m/waterloo@lemmy.ca), I get a 404 and no option to subscribe (I heard some people mention before how Lemmy would show empty communities until the first person on your instance subscribes – not sure if that even applies to kbin and I can’t seem to subscribe anyway).

I can see other subs on the same instance. The whole reason I learned about these subs is because I can see https://kbin.social/m/ontario@lemmy.ca fine. So it doesn’t appear to be the instance.

Anyone have any ideas what’s wrong and how to fix it?

  • lixus98@kbin.social
    2·
    1 year ago

    I personally saw someone working on fixing the links so you can just click on them, hopefully we get some form of autosearch when the magazine is not federated

    • CoderKat@kbin.socialOP
      1·
      1 year ago

      Making the links clickable will definitely help. It’s very painful right now. Right now, you often end up with someone sharing a link in a form like https://lemmy.ca/c/waterloo, which is obviously a different instance and thus you can’t subscribe from there.

      But more than that, I’ve discovered that:

      1. You can’t just go to the normal community URL to subscribe (well, you can if you’re not the first – this is what particularly confused me, as it seems every other sub I’ve subbed to, I’m not the first kbin user to sub).
      2. You can’t find the magazine in magazine search (what’s the point of a magazine search that can’t actually search many magazines?)

      You can only find it in non magazine search (very confusing).