Cannot create new communities

3 months ago by evenwicht to c/sdfpubnix

SDF is malconfigured. The “Create Community” option is given at the top of the screen, which means SDF is configured to allow usres to create new communities.

We get a blank form. We take the time to fill out all the details of the new community. Then when we click “Create” we get a bogus error popup falsely claiming that the community already exists.

wesker 3 points 3 months ago

sdf doing a perpetual shitty

save

path: 0 24956819, hotness: undefined, score: 3, children: 0

pmjv 1 point 3 months ago

It works correctly. Check through a different instance, you'll probably find that the community already exists, but it disappeared locally in the 9month wipe.

https://lemmy.world/search?q=funhole&type=All&listingType=All&page=1&sort=TopAll&titleOnly=false

save

path: 0 24946150, hotness: undefined, score: 1, children: 2

evenwicht 5 points 3 months ago

The community is the first of its kind. There is nothing in the fedi with the same name, past or present.

Nor would it matter if it did exist. The Lemmyverse db shows lots of communities with the same name across different instances.

Try it. Create “lkjsdfcjai9frej09frfe4trj”, which is just some random string that would not exist anywhere. It gives “that community already exists”.

(edit) I see that you have not created any groups since 2023.

save

path: 0 24946150 24946475, hotness: undefined, score: 5, children: 1

pmjv 2 points 3 months ago

That's cool! I hope you figure it out eventually!