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Seems like something on KBin changed from the day I first signed up to today. I distinctly remember at the top where it says:

kbin /m/AskKbin Threads(#) Microblog(#) People

There used to be another option for "Magazines" in which it was a search engine for magazines here and on Lemmy. That's how I set up an initial assortment of topics I was following.

It's no longer there. If I do a search for say "emacs" it's pulling up ActivityPub mentions of emacs in posts, but not actual communities.

Am I crazy and I imagined it, or is it something that was up there, but disappeared. Maybe I accidentally selected something that turned it off!

In the interim, if I'm looking for a topic, what's the best way to find a magazine about it? In this particular case I was trying to find the Lemmy Emacs community, but honestly in the end I just prayed and used /m/emacs@lemmy.ml and that worked and I subscribed. But it'd be nice to have a less hail Mary method. Thanks!

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[–] BentiGorlich@gehirneimer.de 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

If you have your top bar enabled rhe button disappears. Instead there is a button labeled: "all magazines" on the end in the top bar.

[–] YouveCatToBeKittenMe@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ah, I missed that one when I was looking at the settings. That's what I get for trying to solve a problem early in the morning, lol. I'm not OP, but thanks for solving that mystery.

[–] BentiGorlich@gehirneimer.de 1 points 1 year ago

No problem, had this problem myself until I realised that XD

[–] Remillard@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Holy crap, thank you. I was thinking of the top bar as the shortcuts on Reddit (or Reddit Enhancement Suite) and I turned it on. I have no idea why it would remove the search capability for Magazines since it's functionally impossible to actually show everything on that line. However, we're in a new world now. So glad you figured that out. This is the way.

It's there for me, so it's something on your end (or a bug that only affects some people). I don't see anything in the settings that would affect it, so I have no idea what happened, but for a short-term bandaid, this is the link to the magazines page.

A couple of other resources that might help: Here's a site tracking migrated subreddits (both officially-migrated and unofficially duplicated) across the internet, and this site lets you search for communities across a bunch of Lemmy instances..

[–] cloudless@feddit.uk 1 points 1 year ago
[–] readbeanicecream@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

@Remillard Just as @YouveCatToBeKittenMe said ... it's there from me too.