In the past two days I’ve been trying to create a community, but without success. I insert the name (with the allowed characters), the display name, and so on. But when I click on create a spinning wheel appears for a second or two, then goes back to create and nothing has happened. I created two communities previously (10 days ago or so) without problems.

I imagine it’s just an effect of the current load for Lemmy.world, but wanted to ask just in case.

    • pglpm@lemmy.worldOP
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      1 year ago

      This reaches the borders of my understanding of the fediverse :) You mean I could create it on Lemmy.ml for example? Would I need to create an account there? I’ll explore, thank you for the suggestion.

      • Netto Hikari@social.fossware.space
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        1 year ago
        • Create an account on another instance (I suggest a smaller one, to spread the load)
        • Create a community using that account
        • Post or comment in that community with your main account
        • Use the newly created account to promote your main account to moderator in the community
        • Profit

        A little convoluted, but I guess moving things off the big instances is good for the fediverse as a whole, because single instances only scale so far performance-wise. Don’t worry about discoverability. It’ll take a couple days, but it’ll work out fine. You can boost discoverability by searching for your community from bigger instances. That’ll kick of federation / synchronisation.

  • ShittyKopper [old]@lemmy.w.on-t.work
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    1 year ago

    Community names are, by default, limited to 20 characters only. No errors or anything pop up when you exceed that, but you can ask your admins to extend the name limit.

  • eramseth@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I had this problem as well on the mobile web page. It worked from desktop mode.

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      1 year ago

      Thank you for the suggestion. I tried from laptop with Firefox and Chromium, then from my phone (Firefox). But I see the same problem on all.