for some reason I still can’t find this community from this instance, neither searching method works, and I waited hours and tried again and still nothing

https://programming.dev/search/q/https%3A%2F%2Fenterprise.lemmy.ml%2Fc%2Freddit_memes/type/All/sort/TopAll/listing_type/All/community_id/0/creator_id/0/page/1

https://programming.dev/search/q/!reddit_memes%40enterprise.lemmy.ml/type/All/sort/TopAll/listing_type/All/community_id/0/creator_id/0/page/1

this is the direct link to it https://enterprise.lemmy.ml/c/reddit_memes

and this link doesn’t work either https://programming.dev/c/[email protected]

    • AtegonMAEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      instances need to be cached first before you can navigate to them or else it throws 404s. To force it to cache you can go to the search bar and type [email protected]. You wont get any results but now you should be able to navigate to it

      • snaggenEnglish
        3·
        1 year ago

        Thanks for the workaround. I still assume that this is still an issue since that requires a user to know about the community. So, browsing and searching for a community to discover it will not work. But, this solved my immediate issue.

        • AtegonMAEnglish
          4·
          1 year ago

          Yeah its a bit of a pain to look for things sometimes if someone hasnt already followed it. There is a website that allows you to search for most communities though http://browse.feddit.de/ (I say most as it sometimes misses brand new ones)