I ran into this same frustrating problem. The whole “fetches in the background after you search” thing makes sense in a very “you are technically correct” kind of way, but it would be a much better user experience to just have a spinner and wait for the community/post to be fetched, rather than gaslight users.

The search didn’t work for me, coming from lemmy.one. Didn’t even show a “no results” message. Copypastaing the whole URL worked, but that is a deeply wonky interface :(

Thank you though! Subscribed.

How do I subscribe to that sopuli one, since it doesn’t show up in my local search results?