diff --git a/libs/adapters/src/trpc/index.ts b/libs/adapters/src/trpc/index.ts
index f8b3d74385b..332606d81e0 100644
--- a/libs/adapters/src/trpc/index.ts
+++ b/libs/adapters/src/trpc/index.ts
@@ -209,7 +209,7 @@ export const query = <Input extends ZodSchema, Output extends ZodSchema>(
   return trpc.procedure
     .meta({
       openapi: {
-        method: 'POST',
+        method: 'GET',
         path: `/${Tag.Query.toLowerCase()}/${factory.name}`,
         tags: [Tag.Query],
         headers: [{ name: 'address_id' }],
diff --git a/libs/model/src/community/GetCommunities.query.ts b/libs/model/src/community/GetCommunities.query.ts
index e3f8e6c7349..9244a6a20e3 100644
--- a/libs/model/src/community/GetCommunities.query.ts
+++ b/libs/model/src/community/GetCommunities.query.ts
@@ -12,7 +12,6 @@ export function GetCommunities(): Query<typeof schemas.GetCommunities> {
     body: async ({ payload }) => {
       const {
         base,
-        tag_ids,
         include_node_info,
         stake_enabled,
         has_groups,
@@ -21,6 +20,11 @@ export function GetCommunities(): Query<typeof schemas.GetCommunities> {
         order_by,
         order_direction,
       } = payload;
+      // NOTE 8/7/24: as a result of having to provide a preprocessed string instead of
+      //  being able to provide an array, we must explicitly set tag_ids as type number[]
+      //  here. The input parser will handle incorrectly formatted strings (see the
+      //  tags.spec.ts file where it is exercised) so this is safe to do.
+      const tag_ids = payload.tag_ids as number[];
 
       // pagination configuration
       const direction = order_direction || 'DESC';
diff --git a/libs/model/test/community/tags.spec.ts b/libs/model/test/community/tags.spec.ts
index 521f82ec1ef..a82101079f8 100644
--- a/libs/model/test/community/tags.spec.ts
+++ b/libs/model/test/community/tags.spec.ts
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ describe('Tags', () => {
   test('should query both tagged communities with tag 1 provided', async () => {
     const communityResults = await query(GetCommunities(), {
       actor,
-      payload: { tag_ids: [tag1Id] },
+      payload: { tag_ids: [tag1Id].join(',') },
     });
     expect(communityResults?.results).to.have.length(2);
   });
@@ -64,8 +64,20 @@ describe('Tags', () => {
   test('should query single community with tag 1 and 2 provided', async () => {
     const communityResults = await query(GetCommunities(), {
       actor,
-      payload: { tag_ids: [tag1Id, tag2Id] },
+      payload: { tag_ids: [tag1Id, tag2Id].join(',') },
     });
     expect(communityResults?.results).to.have.length(1);
   });
+
+  test('should fail on invalid tag string', async () => {
+    try {
+      await query(GetCommunities(), {
+        actor,
+        payload: { tag_ids: 'abkjdgkjsagj,daskgjdsakgjsdg' },
+      });
+    } catch (e) {
+      expect((e as Error).message).to.include('Invalid query payload');
+      return;
+    }
+  });
 });
diff --git a/libs/schemas/src/queries/community.schemas.ts b/libs/schemas/src/queries/community.schemas.ts
index 9dcba656a53..beb345e34af 100644
--- a/libs/schemas/src/queries/community.schemas.ts
+++ b/libs/schemas/src/queries/community.schemas.ts
@@ -11,11 +11,16 @@ import { PaginatedResultSchema, PaginationParamsSchema } from './pagination';
 export const GetCommunities = {
   input: PaginationParamsSchema.extend({
     base: z.nativeEnum(ChainBase).optional(),
-    // NOTE 8/7/24: passing arrays as GET requests is not supported
-    //  to support this field, we converted queries to use POST instead
-    //  but we may need a workaround such as a regex-parsed string
-    //  in the future, depending on the impact of the GET-POST change.
-    tag_ids: PG_INT.array().optional(),
+    // NOTE 8/7/24: passing arrays in GET requests directly is not supported.
+    //    Instead we support comma-separated strings of ids.
+    tag_ids: z
+      .preprocess((value) => {
+        if (typeof value === 'string') {
+          return value.split(',').map((id) => id.trim());
+        }
+        return value;
+      }, z.array(z.coerce.number().positive()))
+      .optional(),
     include_node_info: z.boolean().optional(),
     stake_enabled: z.boolean().optional(),
     has_groups: z.boolean().optional(),