What a Space is, and how to create one

A Space is a home for a community — a club, a team, a class, or any group that wants a shared feed, chat, events, and more. Every Space has an owner, members with roles, and its own rules.

What lives inside a Space#

Which of these a given member can see and use is decided by their role, not by a per-tool switch — see Roles and permissions.

Personal and Space things#

Events, tasks, notes, polls, and files exist twice over: you have your own, and each Space has its own. When you create one, you choose the owner. The hub screens Calendar, Tasks, Notes, and Polls show your own things beside those of the Spaces you belong to, and a Space whose tool your role cannot read is simply absent from the list rather than an error. Files shows one library at a time: switch between your own and a Space's.

Create a Space#

Creating a Space takes three steps.

1. Identity. A name and a URL. The URL is 3–30 lowercase letters, digits, and hyphens, starting with a letter, and cannot be changed later — the name can. A preset (Community, Club, Team, Class) fills in visibility and joining for a common shape; everything stays editable afterwards.
2. Visibility & join rules. See Finding and joining a Space. Under Advanced you can also require review for articles and choose the level new members start at.
3. Review. Check the details, then create.

A Space also needs one to five categories, and can have a description, an avatar, and a banner. On the web you fill these in during the first step; in the app you add them on the review step. Categories are how the Space is found in Explore, so at least one is required.

You become the Space's owner, and its first member.

How many Spaces you can own#

Your plan sets how many Spaces you may own. When you reach that number, Novagora offers the next one as a credit purchase and shows the price before charging anything. Past a hard ceiling, no further Space is available at any price. See Plans and credits.

If your plan ends or you move to a smaller one, the Spaces above its ceiling become read-only: your oldest Spaces stay as they are. Members can still read everything in a read-only Space, but nobody can post, chat, react, upload, join, or change settings there, and scheduled posts wait. You can still delete your own posts, comments, articles, and chat messages. Under Settings in a read-only Space you can make it writable instead of another of your Spaces, and you can still transfer or delete it. Upgrading again makes every Space writable.

Owning a Space also means you cannot delete your account until you have transferred or deleted every Space you own.

How many members a Space can have#

The owner's plan sets how many members a Space includes, the owner counted: 100 on Free, 1,000 on Pro and 10,000 on Ultra. The owner can add room in units of 100 members under Settings → Details → Members, which shows the price and asks before charging. Units are paid in credits every month; lowering them applies from the next renewal and is never refunded. A plan allows at most 200, 5,000 or 50,000 members.

When a Space is full, everyone already in it stays, and new people cannot join until there is room again. People can still ask to join; approving them waits for room. If a month's units cannot be paid, the Space falls back to the members its plan includes.

Running one#

• Roles and permissions — who can do what.
• Space rules — what members accept when they join.
• Invites and invite links — bringing people in.
• Managing members — promoting, restricting, removing.
• Moderating a Space — reports and removals.
• Space settings, ownership, and deletion — the rest.