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Thanks for the explanation. I assumed most of that already, but it's nice to have a clearer picture. My main complaint here is that it should be extremely clear to the user what is happening. If it's fetching data it should say so. If that is going to take minutes or hours, it should say so. Because right now "no results" is meaningless. It could mean it doesn't exist, it could mean it's going to load in 3 seconds, or it could mean it will never load. And this is between two servers that are both on 0.18.3 (I was using sopuli.xyz and discuss.tchncs.de for testing). Actually, if I search for [email protected] on tchncs.de right now, it doesn't show up. I wait and wait and it never shows. But it is clearly cached on the server because you can visit it directly via discuss.tchncs.de/c/[email protected]. It needs improvements badly.
I just ran the search from this instance and it's working for me. The next time you encounter something like this you should check the developer tab. It's hard to diagnose these transient issues without a lot of details. You might also reach out to the instance admins who can check the lemmy server logs.