Lemmy’s current approach to finding off-instance communities is a UX nightmare.
To the average, non-techy user pasting !<community>@<instance_url> to get Noresults despite knowing that community exists is… Offputting. Lemmy should not be showing Noresults while waiting to federate content, and it should be health-checking a search term before returning anything. A single request to <instance_url>/c/<community> would reveal it exists, and prevent this terrible Noresults response entirely.
Lemmy’s current approach to finding off-instance communities is a UX nightmare.
To the average, non-techy user pasting
!<community>@<instance_url>
to getNo results
despite knowing that community exists is… Offputting. Lemmy should not be showingNo results
while waiting to federate content, and it should be health-checking a search term before returning anything. A single request to<instance_url>/c/<community>
would reveal it exists, and prevent this terribleNo results
response entirely.