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.

  • AdaMEnglish
    3•1 year ago

    I can set up a community here for you on blahaj.zone and then mod you if you like, and then step down as a mod.

    But the other thing that occurs to me is that it might be something to do with the length of the community name. By default, it’s limited to 20 characters, and will just give you the death spinny with no error if you try something longer than that

    • @[email protected]OPEnglish
      2•1 year ago

      By default, it’s limited to 20 characters

      Yep, that’s it. We have slightly over 20 letters in our subreddit name.

      Is there a way to bypass that or will we have to truncate it?

      • AdaMEnglish
        3•1 year ago

        Admins can change it for their instance. Would 25 be enough? Happy to do that

        Edit - I’ve set it to 25. Try now

              • @berry_chartreuseEnglish
                3•1 year ago

                One of my favorite subreddits! Thank you for making your way over here

              • MrNemobodyEnglish
                2•1 year ago

                I was gonna warn you that the community name is not showing up correctly on Jerboa: it only shows “Accidental”, but this post got ne thinking that maybe it’s also related to the 20-character limit?

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

                  Jeroba? I don’t know what that is… But yes, it probably has to do with the character limit. I figure that as communities fill up, the official character limit will eventually have to be raised anyway, just like the old-timey internet had to.