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Welcome thread - v1

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Welcome to Forem.dev!

  1. Leave a comment and introduce yourself! Let us know where you're from, what you're hobbies are, or just a fun fact about yourself. When you're done, check out the other comments and leave a reply to someone else. πŸ‘‹

  2. Tell us what brought you here... Are you interested in building your own Forem community? Are you here to share some feature ideas specifically for the DEV Community? Anything else? πŸ™‚

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Michael Tharrington

Heyo to anyone who pops in here! πŸ‘‹

First off, don't hesitate to ask any questions if you have any.

If you're new here and just getting started with launching your own self-hosted Forem, you'll likely want to take a look through some of the articles tagged with #selfhost and #tutorial posted under the Forem Core Team.

We're also encouraging community members to post their own user-guided tutorials under #creatorwalkthroughs... more info on that in this post.

Anyway, just a bit of information for you as you get started here! Hope you enjoy the site and again, ask away if you need help with anything! (Also feel free to post questions under #help!)

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Ben Halpern

If you want to get a sense of the interesting folks hanging around forem.dev, check out Welcome Post v0 β€” A ton of interesting folks there to look up and follow on the site.

Otherwise poke around and consider following a few people or teams here to keep up with what you care about in Forem world.

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Masao Yoshida

Hello seniors! πŸ‘‹
I am Yoshida from Japan.
I am a full-stack engineer from Japan.
I have found this forem in dev.to community.
I want to contribute to make DEV community better.
And I want to learn a lot from you, worldwide talents.
Best regards.

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Michael Tharrington • Edited

Welcome Yoshida! πŸ‘‹ Great to hear that DEV brought you here and really hope you like learning about Forem through this site. πŸ™‚

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Masao Yoshida

Thank you.

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Veerbal Singh

Welcome MasaoπŸ₯³

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Steven Mc;leod

hi

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Alaowei Lawrence Otogie

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Soliu Adeosun

Hi

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Dean Tarisai

Hey, there Yoshida

Welcome to the family! Your nation is well renowned for its advancements in robotics and I'm interested in getting acquainted with the field.

Hoping to learn and network with you!

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Ben • Edited

Hi! I'm Ben. I work on AI platforms and AI-powered experiences. Nice to be a part of this community.

Anyway, I've been thinking of creating a new tech+design community for a particular group of people, and also would like to create a place where community members can post and sell their products/designs to external customers. Essentially a place where freelancers/contractors can sell digital products to customers that are not part of the community themselves.

The gap I see with the Forem Listings module is that it's only available to community members. Not all customers will be community members, so it would need to be accessible outside of Forem.

I see the Dev.to community uses Forem+Shopify for the Dev.to Merch Shop, and while that works for a centrally managed company merch shop, it doesn't really allow for community members to self-post and self-manage their shop listings. Any thoughts on that from this group?

PS I'd be interested in contributing to Forem in a sort of Product Management capacity...let me know if and how :)

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Michael Tharrington

Hey Ben πŸ‘‹

Really great to have you here!

This is a really cool idea for a community and I can totally see how it'd be helpful for you all to have Listings open so that non-community members could purchase items.

However I will note that currently DEV Listings is open to be viewed by anyone (community member or not) and when folks sell items over DEV Listings using the "stuff for sale" category (dev.to/listings/forsale) they aren't actually directly selling the item through Listings so much as they are just advertising it. Most folks selling stuff here are asking to be contacted or linking elsewhere. It's a bit like Craigslist.

All this said, I know we have future plans to improve Listings, I just don't think it's a big priority for us right now. Still, if you have any ideas to improve features on Listings then please do let us know by writing up a feature request under #features.

Also, really cool that your interested in contributing to Forem in a sort of Product Management capacity β€” we just got 2 new product folks on the team and are onboarding them now. I honestly can't speak to how you might be able to contribute in this capacity. However, I'll point you to our open source repo here so that you might get an idea of things we're working on. Hopefully in the near future we'll be able to offer a product roadmap that makes things clearer.

Really appreciate you sharing your interest in Forem, and don't hesitate to ask away if you have any other questions + feel free to contact us with any feedback.

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Nia

Hey World!

I am Nia from Colorado.
I am going to start a bootcamp at a local community college her for Front-End Software Development.
I love playing with my kids.
My favorite thing to do on the weekends is go fishing.
I joined this forem to meet other like minded souls to vibe and talk code with!
Don't be shy! Let's talk code.

Best Regards,
Nia

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Michael Tharrington • Edited

Hey Nia!

It's awesome to hear that you're looking to create a Front-End bootcamp for your local community college.

I just recently wrote a post called Why Forem is a good fit for hosting your college community which ya might like to check out:

If you have any questions about Forem, don't hesitate to hit me up! You can visit my profile:

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And should see a button to chat with me. πŸ™‚

Anywho, happy to help if you have any questions about Forem and wishing you the best in launching your community!

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Ron Sheridan • Edited

Hello folks,

I own BassGuitar.com and am very interested in standing up a FOREM based community for Bass Guitar enthusiasts. I also manage a Facebook page for BassGuitar.com that has 17K followers so there is a seed community to be drawn on.

My hope is to find a team of developers who are familair with the FOREM platfrom and who also are interested in a musician centered social network.

While I don't have any dev or product management skills, I do have a lot I can bring to the effort in a few critical areas.

All the best,

Ron Sheridan

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Michael Tharrington

Hey Ron,

Really awesome to hear about your community!

I'm a singer/guitarist so naturally have created a Forem for synthesizer enthusiasts called synthusiasts.club. πŸ˜…

I'm no bassist (yet!) but just give me time.

Anyway, I definitely think Forem has a bright future for hosting music-focused communities. The ability to easily embed YouTube videos and Soundcloud within posts is pretty dang sweet!

For instance, here's my band (commencing shameless promotion...):

And a really cool jam by Victor Wooten:

If you have any questions about Forem, don't hesitate to hit me up! You can visit my profile:

And should see a button to chat with me!

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Ron Sheridan

Sorry for the delayed reply :(

Get this, I don't play Bass either, I'm a drummer.

I checked out and joined your Synth community. So you've already learned a bit.

Any chance you'd jump on a screen call w me and share you FOREM experiences and thoughts?

I am eager to stand up a BassGuitar.com community and def need some help.

Have a great weekend.

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Michael Tharrington

Haha! Well look at us... a drummer starting a bass community. And a guitarist/singer starting a synth community. Love it! πŸ˜€

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Ron Sheridan

Hello again Michael,

Would it be possible to arrange a brief chat with you?

I want very much to find some help standing up a BassGuitar.com community using FOREM.

For example are you aware of a FORM community member who might be able to assist me on a contract basis or other arrangement?

All the best,

Ron Sheridan
ronsheridan.com
(213) 926-2669
ron@ronsheridan.com
My Virtual Lobby​​​: beta.workfrom.coffee/@ronsheridan

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Michael Tharrington

Hey Ron!

Apologies for the delayed response. I took a long weekend trip to see some family... anywho, back in action now. πŸ™‚

I'd love to schedule a time to chat with you!

I'll shoot you an email and we'll figure out a good time to meet up.

Just a heads up that I may need to wait until next week to meet, because this week my team is hosting a conference called CodeLand so it's kind of all hands on deck right now.

Anywho, I'll be in touch and we'll find time to meet soon!

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Ron Sheridan

All good Michael,

Thanks for the reply!

You ok planning a call for next week?

I'll make time.

All the best,

Ron Sheridan
ron@ronsheridan.com

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Michael Tharrington

Awesome! We'll get some time in the books. Emailing ya now!

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Larry Johnson

Bassguitar.com SSL certificate is expired FYI

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Ron Sheridan

Thank you, Larry!

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Luuhoanghai

Xin chao han hanh lam quen

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Ella (she/her/elle)

Welcome Luuhoanghai! Looking forward to learning more about the community you're building on Forem!

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Nyareh David

Hello seniors from all around the world.
I'm Nyareh from Myanmar. I'm no one but a student still learning web development.

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Ella (she/her/elle)

Hey Nyareh, welcome! What community are you working on with your Forem?

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Nyareh David

Currently, I'm working on nothing.

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Alen Abraham

Hey everyone! πŸ‘‹
I am Alen from India.
I am a UI/UX Designer and aspiring full-stack dev.
I have found this forem in dev.to community.
I want to contribute to make DEV community better.
And I want to learn a lot from you, worldwide talents.
Best regards.

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Ella (she/her/elle)

Welcome, Alen! We'd love to hear more about the Forem you're creating!

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Zeeshan Haider ShaheenπŸ‡΅πŸ‡°

Hello EveryoneπŸ‘‹
I am Zeeshan Haider Shaheen πŸ‘¨β€πŸ‘§ a Pakistan πŸ‡΅πŸ‡° based Frontend Software Engineer πŸ§‘β€πŸ’Ό and UI/UX designer

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Ella (she/her/elle)

Welcome! Looking forward to learning more about the Forem you're creating!

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Alvaro Montoro

Hi everyone! I'm Álvaro from Austin, TX. I enjoy doing web development and building weird things with HTML and CSS (like CSS art or CSS games).

I'm here to learn more about Forem and suggest feature ideas based on my use of DEV and CodeNewbie communities.

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Michael Tharrington

Hey Alvaro! πŸ‘‹

Great to see you here on forem.dev. I've seen quite a few of your posts on DEV and know that you're a trusted user there too. πŸ™Œ

Anyway, just to say appreciate all the awesome stuff you do on DEV and excited to have you here in this community to help by suggesting feature requests for the Forem platform that will better the DEV and CodeNewbie communities.

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Hilmi Hidayat

Hello World!πŸ‘‹
I'm Hilmi from Indonesia.
I'm a Software Quality Assurance Engineer from Indonesia.
I've found Forem in the dev.to sidebar banner. Currently I am still learning about web development. And I am very excited to learn from you all πŸš€, the world's great talents at Forem 🀩.

Best regards.

Hilmi

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Animesh Dhanuk

Hello Guys
PHP Developer from india
Having 8+ Years of experience.
Wants to share my knowladge with you and wants to learn new things from you
Lets do it togather.

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Alvise Feliu

Hello world!
I am Alvise from Spain.
I am a Full Stack Developer from Spain.
I have found forem.dev in dev.to community.
I want to contribute to make DEV community better & also keep learning.
Best regards :)

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Ella (she/her/elle)

Welcome, @alvisefeliu !

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