joe becomes one of the owners around 3 days after it + is created, and lemon joins the owner team later in the year, when the community + has around 300 members.
+ +Our main source of new users at this point is a post on Reddit that + happens to get very good SEO. We are one of the top 10 search engine hits for the search term + "python discord".
+ +The public moderation bot we're using at the time, Rowboat, announces + it will be shutting down. We decide that we'll write our own bot to handle moderation, so that we + can have more control over its features. We also buy a domain and start making a website in Flask. +
+ +Our very first Code Jam attracts a handful of users who work in random
+ teams of 2. We ask our participants to write a snake-themed Discord bot. Most of the code written
+ for this jam still lives on in SeasonalBot, and you can play with it by using the
+ .snakes command. For more information on this event, see the event page
Since data privacy is quite important to us, we create a privacy page + pretty much as soon as our new bot and site starts collecting some data. To this day, we keep our privacy policy up to date with all + changes, and since April 2020 we've started doing monthly data reviews.
+ +At this point in time, there are only two serious Python communities on + Discord - Ours, and one called Do You Even Python. We approach the owners of DYEP with a bold + proposal - let's shut down their community, replace it with links to ours, and in return we will let + their staff join our staff. This gives us a big boost in members, and eventually leads to @eivl and + @Mr. Hemlock joining our Admin team
+ +As we continue to grow, we approach the r/Python subreddit and ask to + become their official Discord community. They agree, and we become listed in their sidebar, giving + us yet another source of new members.
+ +After being rejected for their Partner program several times, we + finally get approved. The recent partnership with the r/Python subreddit plays a significant role in + qualifying us for this partnership.
+ +We create a second bot for our community and fill it up with simple, + fun and relatively easy issues. The idea is to create an approachable arena for our members to cut + their open-source teeth on, and to provide lots of help and hand-holding for those who get stuck. + We're training our members to be productive contributors in the open-source ecosystem.
+ +We partner with RLBot, move from GitLab to GitHub, and start putting + together the first Advent of Code event.
+ +Our very first package on PyPI, django-simple-bulma is a package that + sets up the Bulma CSS framework for your Django application and lets you configure everything in + settings.py.
+ +The site is getting more and more complex, and it's time for a rewrite. + We decide to go for a different stack, and build a website based on Django, DRF, Bulma and + PostgreSQL.
+ +Inspired by the Adafruit, Rust and Django communities, an essential + community pillar is created; Our Code of + Conduct.
+ +After being a long time active contributor to our projects and the driving force behind our events, Ves Zappa joined the Owners team alongside joe & lemon.
+ +More than tripling in size since the year before, the community hits + 30000 users. At this point, we're probably the largest Python chat community on the planet.
+ +Our Code Jams are becoming an increasingly big deal, and the Kivy core + developers join us to judge the event and help out our members during the event. One of them, + @tshirtman, even joins our staff!
+ +We release our dynamic help-channel system, which allows you to claim + your very own help channel instead of fighting over the static help channels. We release a Help Channel Guide to + help our members fully understand how the system works.
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The creator of Arcade, Paul Vincent Craven, joins us as a judge. + Several of the Code Jam participants also end up getting involved contributing to the Arcade + repository.
+ +Having originally planned to write our own ModMail bot from scratch, we + come across an exceptionally good ModMail bot by + kyb3r and decide to just self-host that one instead.
+ +After working towards this goal for months, we finally work out an + arrangement with the PSF that allows us to be listed on that most holiest of websites: + https://python.org/. There was much rejoicing.
+ +After getting numerous requests to publish beautiful data on member + count and channel use, we create stats.pythondiscord.com for all to enjoy.
+ +Sponsored by the Django Software Foundation and JetBrains, the Summer + Code Jam for 2020 attracts hundreds of participants, and sees the creation of some fantastic + projects. Check them out in our judge stream below:
+ +PyWeek, a game jam that has been running since 2005, joins Python + Discord as one of our official events. Find more information about PyWeek on their official website.
+ +After years of hard work, we hit 100,000 users. A monumental milestone, + and one we're very proud of. To commemorate it, we create this timeline.
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