How do I join a community?

Joining a community adds it to your sidebar and lets you post and reply there. Most communities let you join right away. Some ask a moderator to approve you first, and private ones need an invitation.

Find a community

Select Communities in the sidebar, or go to Communities. You can search by name, description or team introduction, or browse three tabs:

• For you: a short Featured list picked by the nook team, communities Recommended for you, and groups of communities similar to ones you've joined.
• Popular: communities with the most members.
• New: the most recently created communities.

Don't want to see a suggestion? Select Not interested (the X on its card) and nook stops suggesting that community for 30 days.

Join

1. Open the community, or find it in a feed or on the Communities page.
2. Select Join. If you're signed out, Join takes you to sign up first, then back to the community.

The button tells you how the community lets people in:

• Join: the community is open, and you're a member as soon as you select it.
• Request to join (Request in lists): a moderator reviews your request. Some communities ask a question first. Type your answer and select Send request. A matching answer lets you in right away. While you wait, the button reads Withdraw request, and lists show Requested.
• Invite only: the community is private. Only members and people with an invitation can see it.
• Accept invitation: a moderator invited you. You'll also get a notification. Select Accept invitation to join, or Decline.

Some token communities ask you to hold a minimum amount of their token in a verified wallet before you can join. See What are token communities?

In some communities only moderators can start posts. As a member you can still reply.

Adult (18+) communities

Communities marked 18+ open behind a warning. To continue, you need to be signed in with a birth date on your account showing you're 18 or older. Check I am 18 or older and want to view this content, then select Show adult content. nook may ask you again later. To take it back, open the community's ⋯ menu and select Stop showing adult content.

Leave a community

1. Open the community.
2. Select Leave community, then confirm. If you're a moderator, Leave community is in the community's ⋯ menu instead, and leaving also steps you down as a moderator.

Your posts and replies stay. To rejoin a community that needs approval, you'll need to be approved again. To rejoin a private one, you'll need a new invitation.

An owner can't leave their own community. Hand it over to someone else first. See How do I moderate a community?