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/[email protected]), 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/[email protected] fine. So it doesn’t appear to be the instance.

Anyone have any ideas what’s wrong and how to fix it?

  • CoderKat@kbin.socialOP
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    1 year ago

    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.

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      1 year ago

      Thank you, thank you! I’ve been wrestling with this all night and this fixed it for me too :)