This issue is being caused by a crash in the Bedrock dedicated server. The crash has been assigned to the appropriate engineer, and is assigned our highest priority. As soon as we have a fix for the server, we'll get that rolled out to Realms customers
We deployed a fix to our production environment this week for this issue
We deployed a fix for this issue to production this week.
We've found the issue with the clubs integration, and I'm working on a fix. once we get the fix in place and deployed to production, clubs should be created for the realm again after the first successful restart of the realm. I don't have an ETA as of yet, we have to work with a partner team to resolve the issue.
The view distance is controlled by the dedicated server running in Realms, which is currently set to 9 chunks for Java Edition. This value isn't modifiable by the client