[Request] Show true subscription counts (lemmy.ca)

submitted 11 months ago by otter@lemmy.ca to c/boostforlemmy@lemmy.world

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Right now when you search for communities, it uses the number of subscribers from your home instance only. This is also how web Lemmy works, but it isn't useful and it makes communities look dead when they're not.

If you instead pull the subscriber and comment count from the community's home instance, it would be accurate.

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https://lemmy.ca/post/5674368

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[-] Die4Ever@programming.dev 14 points 11 months ago

I think the v0.19.0 backend already fixes this, so no need to duplicate that effort in the frontends

[-] otter@lemmy.ca 8 points 11 months ago

Oh didn't know that, cheers :)

[-] otter@lemmy.ca 4 points 11 months ago

Same with user counts on the community page, on user profiles (under moderation) etc.

this post was submitted on 20 Nov 2023

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