I’m trying to transfer my subscriptions from lemmy.ml over to a new account here, but the community search is failing to find most of those subs. For example: comics, esp32, selfhost, and datahoarder.

Even if I try reaching the url directly (https://mander.xyz/c/homeserver@lemmy.ml) I get a “404: couldnt_find_community” error. Are these communities blocked from Mander for some reason?

    • ShdwdrgnOP
      2·
      1 year ago

      And datahoarder just showed up on the search page now… So yeah, I’m guessing there’s some sort of time delay between the first search and when it’s actually available.

    • ShdwdrgnOP
      1·
      1 year ago

      I went to the community page here and searched for each one of these, trying to use the actual community name, the friendly name, and just parts of the name. Like for datahoarder I tried searches for “datahoarder”, “data”, and “hoarder” and they all came up blank. I note that your link for this one is still directly on lemmy.ml rather than through mander, and since I also have an account on lemmy.ml when I follow the direct link it shows I’m already subscribed as my lemmy user, but I can’t subscribe as my mander user. And

      Also note my full link in the OP for https://mander.xyz/c/homeserver@lemmy.ml … Oddly this DOES open now, where it got the 404 error previously. Same with all the other “mander.xyz/c/???@lemmy.ml” links that you posted – I tried each one of those before I made this post and every single one of them gave a 404 error but are working now.

      This all makes me wonder… is there some kind of delay between the first time someone on a server queries for a community, before that community will actually be accessible? I tried once again on the community page to search for datahoarder and https://lemmy.ml/c/datahoarder however neither one turned up that community. Another lemmy.ml community I’m looking at is “atheism”, I tried searching for it on the community page and got no results. I tried browsing to https://mander.xyz/c/ateism@lemmy.ml and got a 404 error.

      • SalamanderMA
        2·
        1 year ago

        The ones that appear are appearing because I have “fetched” them. For example, I have not fetched /c/atheism yet. To get it, paste the following to the search bar: https://lemmy.ml/c/atheism

        • ShdwdrgnOP
          2·
          1 year ago

          Oh I see now! I have to paste the URL to the search first, give it a second, then paste JUST the group name to the search and then it seems to show up. Awesome, that’s working for some others I just got done searching as well, thanks!

  • acockworkorange
    1·
    1 year ago

    Quick question: is it possible to have two separate communities of the same name in two different instances? Like an atheism@lemmy.ml and an atheism@mander.xyz? How is that handled?

    • SalamanderMA
      3·
      1 year ago

      It is possible to have communities with the same in in two different instances. One community would be atheism@lemmy.ml, and the other community would be atheism@mander.xyz. They would be fully independent communities.

      For example, many instances will make a “test” community for testing. When accessing the community in your own instance, the community name is used without the @instance:

      https://mander.xyz/c/test

      And the @instance is specified when accessing a community from a different instance.

      https://mander.xyz/c/test@lemmy.ml

      It is also possible to always include @instance, even if it is in your own instance. So the following works too:

      https://mander.xyz/c/test@mander.xyz

      This last fact is useful when you want to create a relative URL. For example, clicking here would send you to the test@mander.xyz community in your own instance, as long as the community has already been “fetched”.

      I hope this all makes sense. I am happy to answer any more questions.