2y ago

Having trouble creating a Lemmy community-- This is my third server, and my co-mod is also having trouble (SOLVED!!)

SOLVED: Our subreddit had a longass name, and Lemmy has a 20 character limit

Hi! Reddit mod from a large-ish but well-known subreddit looking to move things to the Lemmy-verse but for some reason my and my co-mod have had absolutely zero luck for the last 4 days creating a community on any Lemmy server. Whenever we try to create one, we just get the little spinny button of death and it's never created.

Yes, even here on Blahaj.

Are we cursed?

We managed to create a magazine on Kbin (still glitchy but it's the only one that worked) but we're worried that if we don't snag that exact name on Lemmy, someone else will pounce on the name and grab it for clout, which would be very distressing because we've worked our asses off trying to grow that community.

What are we doing wrong? Are our usernames not cute enough? Did someone snag the name and is hiding it from us?

Help, we are not good with computers.

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What do you mean by "snag that exact name on Lemmy"? The same community name can be used across multiple instances, so you'd only be snagging it for the instance you create it in.

@VoltasPistol@lemmy.blahaj.zone How long is the name of the sub you're trying to create? Is it longer than 20 characters?

If you are trying to set an image for your community and the server cant process it (its pretty finicky) then it'll error out. I would suggest trying to not set an image when creating it (you can always add it later).

I know community creation is working on my server, lib.lgbt, because I just saw a user create one. Not sure where else you've been trying.
- Since you're an admin on a server perhaps you will know: Is it possible for an admin to help a user setup a Lemmy community, and the user is top mod, not the admin?
  I've asked my co-mod if maybe we should start asking admins directly but because my co-mod thinks that the admin cannot create a community without that admin being top mod of that community, and I don't know if that is correct or not.
  
  I can set up a community here for you on blahaj.zone and then mod you if you like, and then step down as a mod.
  But the other thing that occurs to me is that it might be something to do with the length of the community name. By default, it's limited to 20 characters, and will just give you the death spinny with no error if you try something longer than that
  
  I’m not totally sure myself, I’ve never tried it. There isn’t an option to do so in the UI that I can see, but an admin could theoretically alter the database directly to change ownership. I’m not sure how that would reflect on federated instances, but on the local community it would certainly work.

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