Communities

A community is a shared space with its own text and voice channels, members and roles. Every community you’re in appears as an icon in the community rail on the left side of the app.

Create a community

In the community rail, select the plus button (Create or join a community).
Fill in the Create a community form:
- Name: 2 to 64 characters. You can change it later.
- Description (optional): up to 1,000 characters. It’s shown on your community page and in Discover.
- Private or Public: private communities are invite-only. Public communities can be found and joined in Discover.
- Category: the topic your community fits best, such as Gaming, Music or Social & Hangout.
Select Create community.

Rally opens your new community in its #general channel. It comes ready to use:

a Text channels category with #general and #games (a good spot to play games in chat)
a Voice channels category with a voice channel called Lounge
an @everyone role that lets members read and send messages, react, upload files, talk in voice, share their camera or screen, create invites, change their nickname and play games

You’re the community’s owner, which means you can do everything in it. You can own up to 20 communities and be a member of up to 100.

Join a community

With an invite link

Invite links look like rally.place/invite/ followed by a code.

Open the invite link. You’ll see the community’s name, how many members it has, how many are online, and who invited you.
Select Accept invite. If you aren’t signed in, Rally asks you to sign in or create an account first, then brings you back.

You can also paste an invite into the app: select the plus button in the rail, choose Have an invite?, paste the link (or just the code), and select Join community.

Some invites expire or can only be used a certain number of times. If an invite has expired, reached its limit, or been revoked, you’ll see “This invite isn’t working”. Ask whoever sent it for a new link.

From Discover

Discover lists public communities that have chosen to appear there.

In the community rail, select the compass (Discover communities).
Search by name, topic or tag, or pick a category. Switch between Popular and New to change the order.
Select Join on a community. Communities you’re already in show Open instead.

The same directory is available to anyone at rally.place/discover, even without signing in.

From a community page

Every public community has its own page at rally.place/c/ followed by a short form of its name. The page shows the community’s banner, description, tags, category, member and online counts, and the channels new members can see. Select Join community to join, or Copy link to share the page. If you’re already a member, the button says Open in Rally.

When you join, Rally posts a welcome in the community’s system messages channel, such as “Sam joined the community. Say hi!” Members with the Manage community permission choose which channel that is, or turn welcomes off.

Invite people

You need the Create invites permission, which everyone has by default.

Select the community’s name at the top of the sidebar and choose Invite people. To invite people straight into one channel, hover over that channel and select the Create invite icon instead.
Choose how long the link lasts (Expires after: 30 minutes, 1 hour, 1 day, 7 days or Never) and how many times it can be used (Max uses: No limit, or 1, 5, 10, 25 or 100 uses).
Select Copy and share the link.

New invites last 7 days with no use limit unless you change them. Each time you open the invite dialog or change its options, Rally makes a new link. Earlier links keep working until they expire, run out of uses, or are revoked.

Change your community’s settings

Select the community’s name at the top of the sidebar and choose Community settings. You’ll only see this option, and only see the sections inside it, if you have permission to manage something there.

Overview

In Overview (needs Manage community), you can change:

Setting	What it does
Community name	2 to 64 characters.
Icon URL	A link to a square image that starts with `https://`. Leave it empty to show your community’s initials.
Description	Up to 1,000 characters, shown on your community page and in Discover.
Banner URL	A link to a wide image (about 3:1) that starts with `https://`. It appears on your community page and invite pages.
Category	The topic used to group your community in Discover.
System messages channel	The text channel where Rally welcomes new members. Choose No system messages to turn welcomes off.
Tags	Up to 5 short tags that help people find you in Discover. Press `Enter` or type a comma to add one.
Visibility	Private: invite-only and hidden from search. Public: anyone with the link can join.
Show in Discover	For public communities only: lists your community in Discover and lets search engines find it.

Select Save changes when you’re done.

Other sections

Section	What it’s for	Who can use it
Roles	Create roles, choose their permissions, and set their order.	Members with Manage roles
Members	Search members, assign roles, change nicknames, and time out, kick or ban people.	Members with Kick members, Ban members, Time out members, Manage roles or Manage nicknames
Invites	See every invite link, who made it, how many times it’s been used and when it expires. Select the X on a row to revoke an invite right away.	Members with Manage community
Bans	See who’s banned and why, and revoke bans.	Members with Ban members
Audit log	See who changed what in the community, and when.	Members with View audit log
Delete community	Permanently delete the community.	The owner only

The owner can use every section. Members with the Administrator permission can use every section except Delete community. Learn more in Roles and permissions and Moderation and safety.

To add, edit and delete channels, see Channels and messages.

Leave a community

Select the community’s name at the top of the sidebar.
Choose Leave community, then confirm.

The community disappears from your rail. You can rejoin a public community any time. To rejoin a private one, you’ll need a new invite.

If you own the community, you won’t see Leave community. As the owner, you can delete the community instead.

Delete a community

Only the owner can delete a community. Deleting it removes every channel, message, role and invite for good.

Open Community settings and choose Delete community.
Type the community’s name to confirm.
Select Delete community.