It’s excruciatingly obnoxious to have to rely on third party sources for what should be a first-party feature.

Like, I select all and then search a query. “Oh no, nobody on your server used a third party service to find it, so you won’t see it here.”

Like, how short-sighted is that, really? If I search for a string in the ‘all’ servers, I should have a list of ‘all’ the servers containing that string.

It’s a really simple concept. Not sure why this post even has to be made, but I’m wondering if there’s something I can do to make these ‘features’ more intuitive.

  • bobman@unilem.orgOP
    32·
    11 months ago

    So, small instances are bad if you don’t want to rely on third party services to find other communities?

    Gee, what great design. Thank you for defending it for me and telling me to just switch to a different server. That really is the solution.

    • Blaze@sopuli.xyz
      23·
      11 months ago

      You seem to be quite a negative person.

      That’s okay, but I don’t think that adds much to the discussion.

      I offered you a solution to the very issue you are facing. If you are unhappy with it, you can probably just leave this place.

      Have a good day.

      • krayj@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        11 months ago

        This is a solution for 1 single person. It doesn’t solve the greater problem that the experience is VERY inconsistent for new users depending on whether they got lucky and first joined a large instance or if they got unlucky and joined a small instance. It also doesn’t retroactively repair the horrible first experience that new users have with lemmy.

        What you offered really isn’t an solution as much as it is mansplaining…and that’s not really helpful at all when what we’re talking about here are the perceptions of new users.

      • bobman@unilem.orgOP
        2·
        11 months ago

        You didn’t really offer me a solution nor did you answer my question. You also made the sny remark, “If they can’t bother with investigating the platform for 10 minutes, I think they should stay on Reddit and keep complaining about the awful app and website over there.”

        You’re unwilling to take any criticism of lemmy. You are the kind of person that prevents it from getting better and more accessible to a general audience.

        I’m sorry for not giving you praise for not contributing anything of value.