[2022] Cannot continue multiplayer survival world

My friends and i started a multiplayer survival world yesterday but when we came back to it today we can't seem to continue it. If we all party up together beforehand, the continue button turns grey. if the original world creator tries to join it on his own, it gives an error message. has anyone else run into this ? we can't find anyone else mentioning this online and would really appreciate some help. we don't want to have to start over every time we have to stop playing for the day.

Continue button greyed out when trying to join as a party

Network error upon joining the world solo

Edit: we may have figured out the issue with a little trial and error. the world we were tying to get onto was set as private, and upon trying to rejoin it there is no option to enter in the password. i made a second multiplayer world and left it as public. after leaving i was able to rejoin that one just fine, but still no luck on the private world. so when making multiplayer worlds be careful setting them as private. you may not want random people joining you, but it would be easier to kick them rather than never being able to play on your world again.

Edit 2: can confirm making the world public works ! i was just able to boot up our new run this morning, solo at least. will edit again when we party up later on