New blog and first release of Atmosphere Community
We are in the midst of making a bunch of changes, so your first intro to the new blog was likely the August 2024 Tech Talk introducing Frontpage, that we imported from the old Ghost powered blog, which is still up at atprotocol.dev and will eventually all migrate here.
Sorry for the email that went out to over 500 of you received with this old post! What you can expect here is updates from our growing community, which means not just tech, and not just for developers.
No longer interested? Not a problem, go ahead and unsubscribe! We didn't mean to blast you from the new site without a little bit more of a heads up!
From .dev to .community
Especially after AtmosphereConf, it's clear that we've got a broad multidisciplinary community. We're going to be switching to @atmosphere.community as our primary label to help highlight things across the breadth of things happening in the Atmosphere.
We also need great concentrated developer content, and we'll look to relaunch @atprotocol.dev soon.
First release of Atmosphere Community Site
We started a discussion of moving off Ghost in the community forum, and things escalated from there.
Here's what @bmann.ca wrote describing the goals of the new community site:
I think directionally it is: “aggregate community long form writing for and by the atmosphere community”
With email to a shared list of 1000s of subscribers and selective highlights, the brief continues as “help community members announce and highlight happenings”
And then @brittanyellich.com rose to the challenge and got a first version released in something like 24 hours. It's live now at atmosphere.community.
This is a screenshot of the home page, which features an aggregation of @standard.site posts, pulled from posts shared into the Open Social community.
We've created an Atmosphere Community group, owned by the @atmosphere.community account. It's open, and anyone can join. From there, you can click on the content tab, and get a list of all of the @standard.site posts that are in your account, and you can choose to share them into the community. That will then show on the home page.
From there, we've got an aggregated calendar of events posted by the regional groups, and the @atmosphere.community account itself.
And finally a list of all the regional groups that have popped up just a few weeks after the conference.
This is just the first release. We're learning about open social, what features make sense across communities, yes we need to work on a multilingual approach, and more.
Speaking of which, learn more about the Open Social approach to public groups on atproto from @brittanyellich.com's presentation Who owns the group chat? Building collaborative spaces on ATProto:
Get Involved
There are definitely bugs! There are definitely missing features! Whether you're running a regional group and want features on the site, or a community member anywhere in the world trying to keep up with the energy of this community, please file issues, suggest new features, or contribute code if you've got time and interest.
The source code is on Github here https://github.com/ATProtocol-Community/atproto-community
And we've got a new dedicated channel in the ATProto Touchers Discord chat https://discord.com/channels/1097580399187738645/1494842659846488256
Tell us what you think by tagging @atmosphere.community.