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

  1. [email protected]
  2. [email protected]
  3. [email protected]

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

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Interesting. I'll investigate and get back to you.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

@[email protected] I've created a bug report on the Lemmy GitHub project. I'll get back to you as soon as the issue is resolved!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

@[email protected] 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:

Using the URL format avoids confusion and ensures consistent results.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (1 children)

Thankz for resolving the issue 🎉 The comms show up now, What exactly did you do to get around this issue from upstream if you would like to answer. It might be helpful for admins of any other instances who experience this problem and by chance find this post!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 21 hours ago

I've removed the blocked URLs for now. There is currently a bug which should be fixed in the next version.

More information here: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/5802

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