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

  1. !raining@sh.itjust.works
  2. !pixelart@retrolemmy.com
  3. !Eevee@pawb.social

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

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[–] tfm@europe.pub 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] tfm@europe.pub 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

@nordiesta@europe.pub I've created a bug report on the Lemmy GitHub project. I'll get back to you as soon as the issue is resolved!

[–] tfm@europe.pub 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

@nordiesta@europe.pub 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.

[–] nordiesta@europe.pub 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day 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!

[–] tfm@europe.pub 2 points 1 day 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