Hello,

First of all thank you so much to the developers of jerboa, the app is simple and responsive (coming from reddit it’s a huge plus), and it just works!

One thing I am personally missing is the ability to easily discover communities. You can search by keyword and that works great, but I would rather have an exhaustive list of them all, especially as I am new here and I might be missing on some of them because I did not enter the right keywords.

The alternative i found is to search for each vowel ‘a’, ‘e’ etc… because all communities names have at least a vowel, but it would be more practical to have an actual listing

What do you think?

  • ƊƲƘЄƬӇƠƦƖƠƝ@lemmy.one
    2·
    2 years ago

    A full “exhaustive” list would never be able to get every community on every instance, due to the nature of federation and how they propagate to each other. I’m sure that Search will eventually see most instance/comms, as they have to be known to each other which will come with time (probably not long).

  • flamingarms@beehaw.org
    2·
    2 years ago

    I’d like to add to this request that we allow searches by instance, or be able to view all communities within a particular instance. I sometimes hear about a new instance and want to see all the communities within it. Or I’m curious what new communities lemmy.ml might have and want to quickly view all their instances. Initially I tried to search “@lemmy.ml”, hoping that would work, but alas it did not. Just a thougt that feels related to this one!

  • Iballl@lemmy.world
    1·
    2 years ago

    I might have misunderstood you (or maybe it’s different on PC), but there’s a list of all Lemmy communities available already: click on the Communities word at the top of the page:

    • potterman28wxcv@lemmy.worldOP
      1·
      2 years ago

      I was talking of the app Jerboa, not the Web browser (i assume that’s the Web browser you are showing). But yes I could use the Web browser for this

  • RamesesKnibs@lemmy.world
    1·
    2 years ago

    I don’t think the Communities list (as mentioned by @Iballl) exists on Jerboa, I can’t see it anyway. The only real option on the app for now is to just browse All and join whatever takes your fancy. Though the browser version on mobile is quite good too and you can access it there

    • potterman28wxcv@lemmy.worldOP
      1·
      2 years ago

      It does on PC but not within the app. Although I could just use the PC to discover new communities and subscribe to them