when creating a new community, what's the difference between the name, and display name?
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!
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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
Thank you, I appreciate the explanation!
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