Community Reports are a currently available QuickBooks Labs feature that is available to QuickBooks Online users. They are the same thing as 'contributed reports' within QuickBooks Desktop but obviously since everyone is linked via the Intuit cloud to QBO the sharing process seems a little more simplified.
At present there are only a couple of 'options' available in QuickBooks Labs, the first is QuickBooks Themes which Liz wrote about some time ago. That gives you the option of a 'dark mode theme'. The second option is the 'Community Reports' feature which are reports created by other users. To get to these reports simply:
1) Click the QBO Gear icon
2) Select QuickBooks Labs
3) Slide Turn on community reports to ON (as shown below)
4) Close 'X' the QuickBooks Labs window (in the upper right corner)
Once you turn-on the Community Reports option and you open Reports in QuickBooks you will see there is a new 'Community Reports' tab (highlighted below).
A variety of reports have already been submitted by QBO users. These reports range from Tax Liabilities to Profit & Loss, from Sales Reports to Balance Sheets, and many more.
Why spend your time trying to develop a custom report that someone else has already designed... if you can find it in the community reports, I say, use it with thanks to the developer. Like this Balance Sheet... simplified and clean looking...
See what I mean...
It's nice when others contribute to 'the community'...
"Thank you to all of you who do!"