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Ashley Smith

Thank you for your great reply! So I do have a few questions:

  1. I noticed my username was free, is that because they are reserved for github usernames (which matches my username) or because I got lucky?

  2. Lets say I have a meta-question about something on dev.to specifically, should I come here or shall I stay there? (The dev.to 'contact' page forwarded me here, making me think this is the 'discussion' part of dev.to)

  3. Does the style of post vary at all between dev.to and here? This place felt more like a forum than a blog site, yet now that I look closely, both sites do indeed operate identically! Maybe it's just the nature of the content that feels different (questions / blogs) rather than the structure of the site itself.

Thank you for being so accommodating!

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Ella (she/her/elle)

Hey @ashe , again with the great questions! I'm Ella, and I work with Michael on the Forem (and dev.to!) Community Team πŸ‘‹ glad you could join us here.

  1. We don't reserve usernames, but since Forem.dev is a pretty specialist community (for people who are interested in hosting their own Forems), it's small enough that you got in early and scored your choice of username. Which it seems like you did on GitHub too, so I'm about to ask you for some lottery numbers πŸ€

  2. For the most part, a meta question about dev.to will be a question about Forem. We tend to lean towards any question about any Forem being a helpful question for all Forems. Although that's not 100% accurate, there's a good chance that a meta question about dev.to will be informative for Admins of other Forems.

  3. Each Forem is a community in its own right, so content definitely varies between Forems. The software these communities are run on is the same (Forem) but the communities themselves are different. That means the content on dev.to (a developer community) is different to the content on forem.dev (a Forem community), which is different to the content on 1vibe.com (hip hop) or flowstate.to (health and fitness) or joinforest.com (sustainable living).

I hope this helps! And please feel free to keep the questions coming.