Does the name need to be like the URL, or just what you wanna call the community? There’s a little help icon next to the text box, but tapping it doesn’t seem to make any help text show up.

Thanks for the help!

  • @lackthought@lemmy.sdf.org
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    91 year ago

    Name will essentially be the text after the c/ in the URL
    Display Name allows extra text and will show when people browse using the Communities tab. Text in the Display Name is also searchable

    example: I made a community called ‘retronet’
    that is the Name, which corresponds to this url: https://lemmy.sdf.org/c/retronet

    the Display Name is ‘retroNET - Vintage Culture/Websites/Software’, which is what people see in the Community browser

    • CrisOP
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      11 year ago

      Thank you, I appreciate the explanation!

    • CommunityLinkFixerBotB
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      11 year ago

      Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using an URL instead of its name, which doesn’t work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: !retronet@lemmy.sdf.org