Community is not a category anyone chooses. There is no setting on a journal, no story type and no publishing option that puts it there. Community is the whole set of published journals minus the handful of accounts UNI's own editorial team publishes from. Everything else, from any other author, is in it by default.
That is a narrower rule than it sounds, and it produces two results that surprise people.
- A UNI staff account's own journal is never in Community, even one that was never marked editorial and reads like a personal piece. The feed does not check what the journal is. It checks who wrote it, and those few accounts are excluded outright.
- A member's journal that UNI has marked editorial still shows up in Community. The editorial mark is something staff apply to any journal in the admin, by any author, and it drives the separate Editorial feed. It plays no part in who is left out of Community. So the same piece can carry the editorial mark and still sit in the Community list, because the two feeds are built from different rules rather than opposite ends of one rule.
It is not the same thing as a story type
Every journal also carries a story type such as Story, Review or Interview, and "Editorial" is not one of the ten on offer. If you are looking for where to mark your own journal as editorial content, there is nowhere to do it: that flag belongs to the UNI team, not to authors. See Story types: what they are and why yours defaults to Story for the full list and what it actually controls.
The exclusion does not move
Switching the sort order, paging further down the feed, none of it changes who is excluded. The same accounts are left out on the first screen and the fiftieth, on Most Recent and on A-Z alike. There is no version of Community that lets a UNI account back in.
If your journal is missing from Community
Since inclusion in Community is the default, a missing journal is almost always one of the three reasons any feed hides a journal at all: it is still a draft, you have unlisted it, or your profile itself is hidden. None of those are specific to Community. Journal feeds explained: Editorial, Community, All, Featured and Trending covers all five feeds and what none of them will show you, and is the place to check first.
If your journal is published, listed and your profile is visible, and it still is not appearing, the one remaining explanation is that you are looking at it from the wrong feed, not that Community is broken: Community was never meant to reflect a quality judgment or a category you set, only authorship.