---
title: "Community"
description: "a room where people gather"
section: concepts
address: /concepts/community
contract: 0476e35e6e275db5
---

# Community

a room where people gather

[figure: Community is a entity at shared scope. The drawing shows its fields and the objects that they point at.]

| property | value |
|---|---|
| kind | entity |
| scope | shared |
| key | the platform and its own id |
| store | postgres |
| family | market |



## Fields


| field | type | required | note |
|---|---|---|---|
| `platform` | `text` | yes |  |
| `name` | `text` | yes |  |
| `members` | `count` | no |  |
| `posture` | [CommunityPosture](/concepts/communityposture) | no |  |



## Routes that use it
No route takes or returns Community directly. The record holds it, and the objects that point at it reach it.