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I tried to create a community but it doesn't let me and doesn't throw up any errors. Is there something that I am missing?

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Do you hit the 'create" button and it just returns you to the top of the page with no explanation?

Then check:

  • The name is all lower case
  • There are no trailing spaces from autocomplete at the end

Especially on mobile, the errors are currently poorly flagged up (I hear it's better on the desktop) and those have been the two most common errors that I've seen.

[–] DevCat 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Also, a problem I ran into, the name needs to be 20 characters or less.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Good tip, I'll stash that away for future reference.

[–] surewhynotlem 2 points 9 months ago

Thank you! The lowercase got me.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Some instances only let admins create communities.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I believe world let's your create new communities.

Weird issue that I had, but the name of the community you're making needs to be in all lowercase letters. Any chance that's the issue you're having?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Are you doing it from mobile or from an app? I tried the other day and it would error but not show what the error was and just scroll up to the top of the form.

I ended up loading the desktop view from a laptop and was able to create the community