We’re currently running the latest release candidate of Lemmy 18.2. It has many fixes; however, there are still some remaining issues.

One example is that some buttons do not appear correctly on the dark themes. I will keep my custom dark theme as the default theme for now. I think it just looks better, even with broken upload buttons. I will attempt to apply a fix to it later today.

If you see any other issues, please, let me know so I can forward them to the core development team-- if you don’t wish to do so yourself.

Thanks a lot! -jgrim

  • jgrimOPMAEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Currently, Lemmy search does not make discovery. You have to know already what you want to join to be able to find it.

    This will eventually change; however, you must use a tool like https://browse.feddit.de/ to discover communities.

    Then if you wish to federate them start syncing with discuss.online you search for them to import them.

    For example, if I found Meme’s on lemmy.ml I would search for “!memes@lemmy.ml” or “https://lemmy.ml/c/memes”. That would then fetch the community locally.

    If you use the discovery tool, a little icon copies the full path to your clipboard for easy searching once clicked.

    This isn’t ideal for discovery and is certainly a known issue for user experience. It’s on the map to resolve.

    I hope that makes sense. If not, let me know.

    • Sir_KevinEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Thanks for the explaination. I’ll give that a try. So once one person on the instance causes a sync will it apply to everyone else on the instance? e.g. Become searchable?

        • jgrimOPMAEnglish
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          1 year ago

          I always forget about that one. Thanks! It’s so much better looking.

      • jgrimOPMAEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        Yes, exactly. And the first time you do the sync, it only pulls the past 20 posts. So it doesn’t pull down the full history.

        If you see a post you specifically want, you can search for its URL, and it’ll pull it down if someone has already joined the community. If not, and if you see a post that’s 21 posts old, you’d first search for the community to start the syncing. Then you can search for that old post to fetch it down.

        It’s a bit cumbersome currently. But it’s new and will get better with time. Mastodon is another federated network, and they have some workaround to prevent such a headache. We’ll get it soon enough.

        But once a community is in sync, it’ll stay in sync from now on. So it’s only a headache until there are regular links between instances.