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1 year agoThis was not working for me and I finally figured out why. I was using the search under “Communities” and not the general search in the upper right. It is counter-intuitive that the communities search won’t find unfederated communities while the general search will, but that is how it works.
That you all for this post. It did ultimately get me where I needed to be.
I was using the search box above the “List of Communities” and getting no results. When I switched to clicking on the magnifying glass icon at the top of the regular page it worked. I don’t know why.