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Having trouble subscribing to communities (lemmy.perthchat.org)
submitted 1 year ago by giddy@lemmy.perthchat.org to c/lemmyinstances@lemmy.perthchat.org
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Hey all,

I have noticed a number of communities listed on https://browse.feddit.de/ are not findable via the community browser here. Is there a batch job that updates the community list? If so how often does it run?

Thanks

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[โ€“] dogmuffins@lemmy.perthchat.org 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I've found that if they don't show up in search, you can go directly to the url and subscribe there. After that it will actually show up in search here.

For example, if you find !whatevercommunity@lemmy.ml at browse.feddit.de, but it doesn't appear when you search communities for whatevercommunity, then you can go to the url https://lemmy.perthchat.org/c/whatevercommunity@lemmy.ml and subscribe there.

This has been a bit hit and miss for me though. I'm pretty sure it's supposed to work, but sometimes you'll get a 404. My guess is that it's because the initial request the perthchat instance makes to lemmy.ml might pull down a lot of data, and if lemmy.ml is under load it might drop the request.

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