Restoring a deleted community?

[dragonfly]

I know I have 30 days to restore the community I created and then deleted, but how do I restore it? It no longer appears under my Account Settings, nor can I simply create it again because the name remains "in use" until the 30 days are up.

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Here' how

[dragonfly]

In case anyone is searching this comm for an answer to this question, here's what I did:

You have to find the Account Status page. The way I got there was to click my own Account Settings link and then click delete on one of the journals listed there. In my case I was clicking delete on my own personal journal because that's the only other journal I have.

On the Account Status page I used the dropdown box and "Switch" to choose the journal I had deleted. Then I changed its status to active.

The hard part for me was finding the Account Status page. Clicking "delete" on my own journal was counter-intuitive to me when what I was trying to accomplish was to "undelete" a community.

Re: Here' how

[triadruid]

Weird; apparently the URL you needed was http://www.dreamwidth.org/accountstatus.bml?authas=<communityname>, but you can't really 'select' that from that page except by handcoding it. There should be a dropdown on that page similar to what LJ has at customize/options.bml (DW doesn't seem to have that on the analogous page, either).

Maybe make a suggestion?

Re: Here' how

[dragonfly]

Well, I don't mind making a suggestion; I just want to be sure that I'm not overlooking some obvious other way to do it. I've made a fool of myself before with that. *g*

If you'd like to make the suggestion, you aren't going to hurt my feelings. *g*