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Create Community? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by Nusm@lemmy.ml to c/lemmy@lemmy.ml

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I am relatively new to Lemmy, although I’ve had my account since before the current Reddit uprising and migration. I want to create a community for pen lovers, since that was one of my favorite subs over on Reddit and there’s not one here.

I was able to go to the main page on Lemmy.ml and choose to create a community. I put in the sidebar text, an icon, a banner, etc., and pressed “Create”, but I keep getting a popup telling me to “Match the requested format” over name at the top. I’ve tried “pens”, “!pens”, “c/pens”, “/c/pens”, and “https://lemmy.ml/c/pens”, and nothing seems to work. Any idea what it’s asking for?

(And yes, I did a Google search and fell down several rabbit holes, but came up empty for an answer.”

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[–] iod@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

There already is a pens community here, maybe that was the issue?

[–] drk@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

I used this as an excuse to start a community, just so I could try to reproduce your problem. But, it actually worked for me on the first try, simply by using a single word without any special characters. Similar to your "pens" attempt. FWIW the only other field I filled in was the Display Name, for which I used the same word but starting with a capital letter. For Languages, I selected English.

[–] beto@lemmy.studio 1 points 1 year ago

That's a weird error, "pens" should've worked. Maybe there's already a community with that name?