Create your own writing assistant

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Discord’s channel structure changes occasionally. It’s probably quite different from four years ago…

Current best practices, as of 2025:

  1. Use only the official invite

    • Join via the Hugging Face Hub “Join Discord” link or official course pages (e.g. Agents / Deep RL / ML for Games course pages all point to the same Community Discord). (Hugging Face Forums)

  2. Ignore old instructions that mention #join-course

    • Threads from 2021–2022 that say “go to #join-course” or similar are obsolete. The Discord team explicitly closed old join threads and redirected everyone to follow the new instructions instead. (Hugging Face Forums)

  3. Treat #how-to-access-discord as the single source of truth

    • After joining the server, go straight to #how-to-access-discord.

    • Carefully follow the steps there to:

      • Click the verification/linking button.
      • Log into your HF Hub account when prompted.
      • Link Hub ↔ Discord and wait for roles to be applied.

    • The joining instructions are now officially maintained in that channel. (Hugging Face Forums)

  4. Use a clean environment if verification is flaky
    If you get errors like “too many redirects”, “HF account already verified”, or you only ever see #how-to-access-discord, do the following: (Hugging Face Forums)

    • Try another browser (or an incognito window) and repeat the verification link flow.

    • Try a different device (desktop vs. mobile).

    • If still stuck:

      • Leave the Hugging Face Discord server.
      • Rejoin using the official invite.
      • Run through the verification steps again from scratch.

  5. Escalate by DM’ing @lunarflu if you remain stuck

    • HF staff repeatedly recommend sending a direct message to @lunarflu on Discord when verification is broken or you can’t access channels even after following #how-to-access-discord. (Hugging Face Forums)

    • You can message the username directly; describe:

      • That you’re stuck on access/verification.
      • What browser/device you tried.
      • Any exact error messages you saw.

  6. Once access works, join the “general” and course areas

    • After roles are applied and channels appear, you typically: (Hugging Face)

      • Introduce yourself in #introduce-yourself.
      • Use any #channels-and-roles or similar channel to opt into specific course / topic / project areas.

    • Old one-off project channels (like the original 2021 “writing assistant” sprint) may be archived, so use the forum thread as the spec and work in current, more general channels instead.

If you follow this order—official invite → #how-to-access-discord instructions → clean-environment retry if needed → DM @lunarflu as fallback—you are aligned with how Hugging Face themselves currently tell people to join and troubleshoot access.