If a community appears as a 404 page when you click it, it likely means that the community is being hosted outside of the instance you are currently using and that nobody in your instance has viewed or interacted with that specific community yet. In order to address this, you will need to copy-paste the specific handle for the community (for example, [email protected]) into your searchbar so that your instance can "learn" that it exists, after which the community should display via linked URLs without issue. Hopefully this is addressed by the lemmy devs and streamlined in the near future.
Can’t seem to figure out the hyperlink on mobile, so I’ll just leave it as plain text. (It was linking back to this post when I used the hyperlink function in the reply text box)
Yeah, that's because the direct link takes you to a different server.
Instead, copy the link, and in your instance click on the search icon up top, and do a search for it there. That'll give you a link relative to your server/instance. Click that and you're good.
Try this link. They default to bringing you directly to the instance the community is hosted on. This will bring you to the community from your own instance where you are logged in.
then it will take you to the community, but keep you on your instance (e.g. you are on lemmy.ca, but looking at c/seattlekraken on the lemmy.world instance)
I'd recommend using that in the links instead of the actual link to the instance with the domain in front. I think this only works from posts, not from comments, for whatever reason. It's weird and I'm still trying to figure it out.
Gah, this is the kind of thing that kills adoption. I can browse to the Caps community on https://lemmy.world, no problem. I see other lemmy.world communities on lemm.ee that I'm using and subscribed to. But I cannot get [email protected] to show up in the app or in search on the website. I tried another team community (I forget which) and had the same experience. But I've been able to add other lemmy.world communities to my subscriptions, and I know they work. Lemmy.world is listed as linked on lemm.ee, and vice versa. Basically everything says it should be working, but it isn't, so it's probably just some temporary issue.
I know once the server 'finds' it the first time, it should work fine, but right now it's just frustrating - and I'm pretty patient.
I get it man, it can be pretty frustrating when things don't "just work". I've noticed some inconsistencies with federated content updating on time as well, but a lot of stuff like this is to be expected as Lemmy experiences these growing pains. It's been getting better slowly but surely, so I'm willing to stick through it.
Just added them! I suspect the sub pending may have something to do with the lemmy.ml servers being crushed right now, as I haven't run into that until today.
If anyone has the same issue, try hitting the Pending button again to stop the request and then JUST ONCE to get it to request again. You might need to do it a couple of times, but you should be able to get in eventually, like I did
Done! https://midwest.social/c/flyers
I know I'm on midwest.social so kinda not fitting but lemmy/beehaw were crushed and I couldn't hardly get a connection when I created an account lol.
Thanks! Yea we had a crazy influx over here on lemmy.world, but so far the admin seems like he knows what he's doing and is making the necessary upgrades.
There was a Leafs one on lemmy.ca but it had once post two years ago. Probably need a new one or at least a lemmy.ca admin to give mod privileges to someone willing to do it
We need some coordinated efforts to bring everyone from Reddit to one instance
Nah, once the linking issue gets sorted out there will be no need for that. Right now it's a wee bit cumbersome because of the need for a link relative to your specific instance, but that's being worked on.
The link in that list to the Kraken community got me a 404. So I made a new one: https://lemmy.ca/c/seattle_kraken
Im very new to Lemmy so have zero idea what I am doing, but Let's Go Kraken!
I noticed that if nobody in your instance has viewed or interacted with a specific community that is hosted outside of the instance you're using, it will appear as a 404 page when you try to access it directly by the URL. For it to show up, you'll need to copy/paste [email protected] into your search bar. Fortunately, this only needs to be done once, as your instance will remember the community's existence from that point onwards and the URL should work as expected.
I'm unable to access fanaticus.social from lemmy.world. That's so frustrating. Hopefully someone makes a new Sharks community because there's only 4 members in this one, and one is me from yesterday when I could access it.
It says there are no posts. And I can no longer see the post and comment I made yesterday. But when I go to https://fanaticus.social/c/sanjosesharks, I can see the 3 posts, including my own.