FAQ Question #78

You can create a community at the Create New Community page. After the community is created, you are now the new maintainer. You can manage community settings at the Community Management page; you may also want to read the rest of the FAQs in the Community Management category.

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Creating a Community

You can either create a completely new community or convert an existing journal into a community. You will first need to be logged into your personal account. This account will be associated with the community as the "maintainer account", and you will need to be logged into it whenever you want to change something about your community. Additionally, the username you select for your community cannot already exist as someone else's journal. If it belongs to you as a personal journal, you can convert it to a community.

• Create a Community: Go to the Create New Community page and enter a new username to create your community and define various settings.


• Convert a Journal to a Community: You only want to convert one of your journals into a community if you are willing to delete all existing entries and you are aware that communities cannot be converted back to personal journals. Go to the Community Conversion page and enter the other journal's username and password to convert it into a community and define various settings.

Managing a Community

Your new community will not have a password because it is not possible to log into community accounts. Instead of logging in, all administrative tasks can be done from the maintainer account at the Community Management page. Additionally, many LiveJournal pages have a "Work as user" drop-down menu, which will allow you to modify the community's information and settings rather than your own.