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?
We're not sure if we're in a place where we can really do that. On a technical or a financial level.
Thank you for giving us more info, though.
Yeah, my co-mod is very particular about getting it done the right way. Can't really blame her, between reddit and other mod drama, it's been quite the whiplash of emotions. We're in a very vulnerable spot because people have come gunning for us before, "Well then I'll make my own subreddit with hookers and blow" type of deal. We've always had the numbers and excellent reputation to keep us from getting swallowed by the smaller fish that care less about academic stuff and just wanted to overtake us by just "getting popular" I guess and not being as carefully curated as we are. But we don't have numbers here, we don't have reputation here, to ensure that someone won't just jump on the idea and run with it.
Since you're an admin on a server perhaps you will know: Is it possible for an admin to help a user setup a Lemmy community, and the user is top mod, not the admin?
I've asked my co-mod if maybe we should start asking admins directly but because my co-mod thinks that the admin cannot create a community without that admin being top mod of that community, and I don't know if that is correct or not.
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.
Omg thank you so much!!