I can't find some communities when searching in the app
I am wondering why I can't find some communities when searching the app with the full !community@server. Searching for the same community on the web page works.
That's the first thing I did of course. But after failing to find said communities I tried with the full name which failed to work on the app and worked on the website
Notably, searching the "community" type for the fully specified community name returns nothing. You have to search the "all" type. I have no idea why this is the case, it makes no sense. But if jerboa is searching the "community", which would make sense for that searchbox... you'd expect no results to be returned.
If your instance knows about the community, a keyword search will probably work, using just the name part of the community without the bang and server bits.
I should have specified that I only used the full name after the community name alone returned nothing. How do you search for all using the app? It works on the website but as far as I can see there are no search options in the app.
I don't believe the it's possible to do an all search in Jerboa. Searching the full name then the simple name might work in Jerboa because the simple name generally works from a community search after "teaching" the instance about a new community with the full name search, but I haven't tested.
Can you give me an example and I will try on mine.
I'm able to search although it is a bit finicky.
I find I have to go to the dotted hamburger menu, then go to the search field then type in something, then delete what I typed. Finally once I've done all that all the communities show up and I can start searching using key words.
I searched for keywords first but it gives no results. It's usually for new communities. For example [email protected] or [email protected]. Some older communities aren't there was well. Some of those listed on Browse Feddit cannot be found. When searching on the web version with the full community@server they show up but not when using app search