Well, that was a busy couple of weeks! 
Time for a round up and a couple of important changes (see below)
This forum is now (publicly) over 2 weeks old (using the blog announcement as the start time), so I thought it would be a good moment to update you on how that went, the feedback weāve had, and whatās coming up next. Letās dive in!
Launch stats
Launching a new thing is hard - thereās so much competition for our attention these days. In that context, I am beyond delighted with the interest & uptake in our new platform. Hereās a few graphs:
The first is pageviews - not the best metric, I know, but one that is directly comparable to Reddit, and amazingly we got one quarter of our Reddit traffic over the same period. Frankly, I had to recheck my figures for that - the Reddit site has been around for years and has thousands of subscribers and this is brand-new, so 100k pageviews (per month, pro-rata) is huge.
The second is posts-per-day, and the third is ādaily enagaged usersā which counts people who Like a post as well as those who actually write something. Obviously thereās a spike at launch, but Iām pleased to see the sustained level through the rest of the period - having 30-40 regular daily visitors at this stage is a good sign for the future.
I went and added up the number of posts on the old ansible-project mailing list in the same period (by hand, yuck) and I think (because I might have miscounted) that weāve had around 300-400% more posts than over there. Again, for the first two weeks, thatās a strong indication that this tool is wanted by a sizeable part of the community.
Speaking of size - right now there are somewhere above 600 people signed up! Hopefully youāre all finding your way around (and please contact us if youāre struggling) and weāre starting to see the first batch of users getting their promotions to Trust Level 1 (and even 2 for some super keen people).
So, thank you to everyone for your involvement! 
Changes so far (and upcoming)
With such a large influx has come some excellent feedback 
so letās take a look at the changes!
- Groups are coming along quickly, with many parts of the project getting their dev group together.
- Check them out and request new ones if you need one
- Tags have had a cleanup and should be more usable now - please do tag your posts!
- Weāve introduced the User of the Week badge to recognise people who are active in the forum. We have 2 winners so far, will you be next?
Important changes - these might be something you want to alter!
- @jbericat pointed out that a couple of the defaults were not great for replies and notifications - in particular replies to topics you replied to donāt notify you directly (although they are marked with a number in the sidebar, eg ā2 unreadā). Iāve changed that now, so you may get more notifications than before - you can change it back in your own settings here
- Related, Iāve also updated the Events category to be Tracked by default - visibility of things the community is doing near you is (hopefully) worth being told about. This wonāt generate notifications but it will add unread topics to the side bar. Again, you can change this for yourself if you prefer!
Upcoming things
- More groups!
- The Steering Committee is looking to move itās discussions & voting here (discuss on GitHub)
- AWX is investigating their next steps here too
- More events!
- Weāre already seeing good traction for things like the Contributor Summit in October
- Iām hearing that more meetup groups might be getting going soon
-Working groups are setting up their meeting agendas
- Accessibility - @jillr raised some excellent points in this topic and weāre working with CDCK (our hosts) on this
- Integrations - weāre already pushing notifications to our Matrix chat rooms, but thereās more we can do here (send me your ideas!)
- Badges! Oh, so many badges to give out - recognition for community efforts is something we want to do, and weāve settled on using this place to do so. Weāve already created our first, and there will be more to come (the Fedora badge system is a great example of how this can work, and I like us to do something similar)
Thank you! 
Iāve launched a whole bunch of community initiatives over the years, and nothing has ever taken off like this. Thank you all so much for being here at the start - now go spread the word. Invite your colleagues (did you know you get a badge for that?), post about it in your circles ā¦ letās make this the place to discuss Ansible!
Onwards! (and let me know your thoughts below )
