Thread:Project:Support desk/I can neither find or add my fiends, and vice versa

I have registered and created a profile, and set all the options I can find to 'allow', but I cannot find my 2 friends who asked me to join by searching. I have searched using their full diasporia email IDs. We have sent each other invites and they weren't received. It does say my 2 invites were sent. My community spotlight page seems to be empty, other than the list of aspects. I have not yet seen any other user other than the operator who is presumably added automatically.

I have not found anything in the tutorials, and really cannot face the technical manual. Have you any suggestions please?