Hey everyone

Its been a bit since the instance has been started and the community handling has become mostly stable so we are changing how community creation works

You should now see a button in the UI called create community that you can use to create a community without needing to go through our community request zone. Instead of filtering communities ahead of time we will retroactively check on new communities and delete them if they dont match the instance

This should be a much better experience for community creation instead of needing to dig around for the community request community. This also means the vote threshold is no more as it doesnt seem needed anymore now that its stable here and things shouldnt be coming in too quick

The UI still isnt ideal since its not apparent that the creation will be moderated afterwards but hopefully in the future we should be able to make something to show its happening (and possibly limit the community until its approved but make it still happen through the button). But for now ill be updating the sidebar with info on the new system

In the future I will draft up a mod welcome guide and mod guidelines and post a link to them here once I get time to do so

Please do not community spam. Try not to mod more than 5 communities unless you have the time to handle that many things

If we notice someone is community squatting by mass creating things and then doing nothing with them theyll be handled and the communities will either be deleted or put into the adoption community !adopt_a_community@programming.dev