I'm not sure if I'm doing it correctly, but when I search for other community on other instances, it doesn't show up in the results. I tried the complete URL, the "!", the "!" plus @instance, the name alone.
Is there something special to do? Is any user can look for community?
Anyone can lookup, but if it's a community that's being fetched for the first time, it might take a few seconds. Try to refresh and it should be visible after that.
That's my understanding, but I'm trying since yesterday and still no results. From Jerboa I succeeded in finding one community, but since then, it looks like I cannot even though I'm on browser right now.
edit: is it possible API are overwhelmed by the number of recent requests?
https://ibb.co/5Kfm9Tp Works
Just saw your updated message and I can only think that maybe their lemmy.ml is overloaded with requests right now and is slow to respond.