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Thanks for the report. Did you notice anything strange when you were creating the group? Delays, error messages, unexpected page refreshes, etc?

I see that three groups were created, with a few seconds in between each one. The "correct" (ie fully created) group is the third of these:

MariaDB [wp_1153337]> select id, slug, date_created from wp_bp_groups where slug li
ke 'proseminar-in-music-ped%';
+------+-----------------------------------------+---------------------+
| id   | slug                                    | date_created        |
+------+-----------------------------------------+---------------------+
| 3401 | proseminar-in-music-pedagogy            | 2025-01-27 20:28:34 |
| 3403 | proseminar-in-music-pedagogy-1964774316 | 2025-01-27 20:28:42 |
| 3405 | proseminar-in-music-pedagogy-1513049226 | 2025-01-27 20:28:49 |
+------+-----------------------------------------+---------------------+

My initial diagnosis is that there was some delay in the creation of the group, and the creator clicked the Continue button several times. This is mirrored in the access logs:

98.13.44.163 - - [27/Jan/2025:20:28:34 +0000] "POST /groups/create/step/group-details/ HTTP/2" 200 - "https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/groups/create/step/group-details/" "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/131.0.0.0 Safari/537.36" 
98.13.44.163 - - [27/Jan/2025:20:28:41 +0000] "POST /groups/create/step/group-details/ HTTP/2" 200 - "https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/groups/create/step/group-details/" "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/131.0.0.0 Safari/537.36" 
98.13.44.163 - - [27/Jan/2025:20:28:48 +0000] "POST /groups/create/step/group-details/ HTTP/2" 302 - "https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/groups/create/step/group-details/" "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/131.0.0.0 Safari/537.36" 

Does this seem possible? Ideally, the system would detect these duplicate clicks (or prevent them) so that this didn't happen, but either way it would be helpful to know if you thought this might be the root cause.

She was sharing her screen with me and yes, she definitely clicked the create button several times. So this is likely the cause.

I think she could not tell if the click registered and the next page was loading (likely due to having many tabs open and not being able to see the loading indicator as designed in chrome UX, which appears in the tab when there are fewer tabs open...)

Thanks Boone!

I'll have the instructor delete the extra groups.