Sorry if this is a dumb question but some communities show up here and some 404. How do I get a community to show up in the list that hasn’t synced yet. Example [email protected]

I checked the faq and don’t see this answer there.

  • ffmike@beehaw.orgEnglish
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    2 years ago
    1. Go to the Communities page
    2. Put part of the name (“requests” works in this case) in the search box
    3. Click the Search button

    If the community you’re looking for doesn’t show up, wait a few minutes and try again. It’s not at all evident from the UI, but some part of the search process is a background process. So it will eventually show up (and indeed, the one you’re looking for is there now).

    If it still doesn’t show on the list in 5-10 minutes, try broadening your search to the URL of the original community. I haven’t checked the code, but this may be necessary if no one from Beehaw has been into the community you’re looking for:

    1. Switch the search type from “Communities” to “All”
    2. Search for the full URL of the community on its home site (something like https://programming.dev/c/code_golf , not the ! form)
      • ffmike@beehaw.orgEnglish
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        2 years ago

        I did manage to get it through search now, searching on just “Golf” pulls it up along with some other unrelated communities. It did take a good ten minutes or more for the background process to work, so if it’s still not showing for you try searching, wait 15 minutes, search again.

        Also, see my updated response at the top of this topic. It looks like there’s an issue when you’re the first one trying to get a community into Beehaw’s servers this way.