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.

  • @[email protected]English
    6•1 year ago

    I’ve only created one community, but recently I’ve had the Spinny Button of Death when trying to post because of Language Settings. Until the last update we were advised to keep it “Undetermined” since changing that would also change the people who could see/reply to a post, but I’ve found some places are only accepting English.

    Do you get any sort of errors? Also where have you been trying to create these communities? Not all instances accept free generation like that, beehaw for example is a fairly closed group.

    edit: I also don’t think snagging the username will be relevant, since people can probably make communities with the same name in different instances. It would make for some very limited creative space if they could not, considering the possible size of the Lemmyverse as a whole.

    • @[email protected]OPEnglish
      3•1 year ago

      No errors, just a spinny ring of death that lasts until the window is closed. I always choose English as the language.

      I thought it was just a server issue until I began trying to make communities on smaller instances like this Blahaj server and I get the same problem. Tried disabling my VPN, still the spinny ring of death.

      I’m kind of getting tired creating accounts on every Lemmy server just to keep running into the same damn problem.