Why do some Lemmy community not show up in magazine search (others on same instance do)?
CoderKat@kbin.social to /kbin meta@kbin.social – 5 points – 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?
You would search for @ waterloo@lemmy.ca (removing the space) within kbin which should then give you the option to subscribe.
Oops, I must have had a bad link before. It's @ontario_index. Searching that worked.
I think it doesn't need the @. The confusing part is that it needs to be the non magazine search. The magazine search does not show it until you first do the magazine search and subscribe. Oof.
Thank you, thank you! I've been wrestling with this all night and this fixed it for me too :)