@howo another thing that came to my mind.
Looks like it is possible to create two communities with the same name. I know the handle (hive-xxxxxx) is different, but they still can name the community the same way as an existing one. Is it possible to prevent this?
Ah yes this was discussed a little on the initial design doc, the main problem being, if you say "first come first serve" then a bad actor can easily snatch all the good names and try to sell them. So it does the opposite effect where every community is named like "ThePhotographiesLovers". There could be a mechanism where only the biggest gets to keep the name or with community voting but then that means one community can take over another which is terrible UX (one day you're on food, the next day you go on food and see a completely different community).
The way things like ENs or domain name solve this is via rent (you need to pay a small fee to keep the name) but I'm not sure people would be willing to pay and if the price is too low, squatters may also want to do that as well. and pay, say 100$ a year to keep 100 domains.
I feel like this is is a bit of a tradeoff, people can create and maintain communities more easily and without the mental block of "oh is this worth me spending money on it"
This is solid thinking ahead!
Guessing if we had more communities this would have happened already.
This is solid thinking ahead!
Unfortunately not. We already have two Photography Lovers communities and some users get confused and fooled too unfortunately. I don't understand why the owner of the other community did it, but it should not be possible to create two communities with the same name. I don't see what purpose would serve.
😂 yes and this proves that if there is something thay can be abused on Hive, there's always someone to do the abuse ☹️
For sure. Might just be a people issue. Good people and bad people everywhere in life.
But people like you bring stuff like this up and I believe it makes a huge difference.