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Python Discord is created

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Joe Banks becomes one of the owners around 3 days after it - is created, and Leon Sandøy (lemon) joins the owner team later in the year, when the community - has around 300 members.

+

Summer Code Jam 2020 Highlights

+

+ We release a new video to our YouTube showing the best projects from the Summer Code Jam 2020. + Better late than never! +

+ +
+ +
- Jan 8th, 2017 + Mar 21st, 2021
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-

Python Discord hits 1,000 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".

+

New feature: Weekly discussion channel

+

Every week (or two weeks), we'll be posting a new topic to discuss in a + channel called #weekly-topic-discussion. Our inaugural topic is a PyCon talk by Anthony Shaw called + Wily Python: Writing simpler and more maintainable Python.. +

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- Nov 10th, 2017 +
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Our logo is born. Thanks @Aperture!

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- Feb 3rd, 2018 + Mar 13th, 2021
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PyDis hits 2,000 members; pythondiscord.com and @Python are live

-

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. +

We're on the Teaching Python podcast!

+

Leon joins Sean and Kelly on the Teaching Python podcast to discuss how the pandemic has + changed the way we learn, and what role communities like Python Discord can play in this new world. + You can find the episode at teachingpython.fm.

+ +
- Mar 4th, 2018 + Mar 13th, 2021
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- +
+
-

First code jam with the theme “snakes”

-

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 Sir Lancebot, and you can play with it by using the - .snakes command. For more information on this event, see the event page

+

Leon Sandøy appears on Talk Python To Me

+

Leon goes on the Talk Python to Me podcast with Michael Kennedy + to discuss the history of Python Discord, the critical importance of culture, and how to run a massive + community. You can find the episode at talkpython.fm. +

+ +
- Mar 23rd, 2018 + Mar 1st, 2021
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+
-

The privacy policy is created

-

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.

+

We now have 150,000 members!

+

Our growth continues to accelerate.

- May 21st, 2018 + Feb 18th, 2021
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+
-

Do You Even Python and PyDis merger

-

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

+

We release The PEP 8 song

+

We release the PEP 8 song on our YouTube channel, which finds tens of + thousands of listeners!

+ +
+ +
- Jun 9th, 2018 + February 8th, 2021
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- +
+
-

PyDis hits 5,000 members and partners with r/Python

-

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.

+

Advent of Code attracts hundreds of participants

+

+ A total of 443 Python Discord members sign up to be part of + Eric Wastl's excellent Advent of Code event. + As always, we provide dedicated announcements, scoreboards, bot commands and channels for our members + to enjoy the event in. + +

- Jun 20th, 2018 + December 1st - 25th, 2020
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PyDis is now partnered with Discord; the vanity URL discord.gg/python is created

-

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 migrate all our infrastructure to Kubernetes

+

As our tech stack grows, we decide to migrate all our services over to a + container orchestration paradigm via Kubernetes. This gives us better control and scalability. + Joe Banks takes on the role as DevOps Lead. +

- Jul 10th, 2018 + Nov 29th, 2020
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- +
+
-

First Hacktoberfest PyDis event; @Sir Lancebot is created

-

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.

+

Python Discord hits 100,000 members!

+

Only six months after hitting 40,000 users, we hit 100,000 users. A + monumental milestone, + and one we're very proud of. To commemorate it, we create this timeline.

- Oct 1st, 2018 + Oct 22nd, 2020
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- +
+ Picture
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PyDis hits 10,000 members

-

We partner with RLBot, move from GitLab to GitHub, and start putting - together the first Advent of Code event.

+

Python Discord hosts the 2020 CPython Core Developer Q&A

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+ +
- Nov 24th, 2018 + Oct 21st, 2020
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+
-

django-simple-bulma is released on PyPi

-

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.

+

Python Discord is now the new home of the PyWeek event!

+

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.

- Dec 19th, 2018 + Aug 16th, 2020
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- +
+
-

PyDis hits 15,000 members; the “hot ones special” video is released

+

PyDis summer code jam 2020 with the theme “Early Internet” and Django as the technology

+

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:

+
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- Apr 8th, 2019 + Jul 31st, 2020
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+
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The Django rewrite of pythondiscord.com is now live!

-

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.

+

Python Discord Public Statistics are now live

+

After getting numerous requests to publish beautiful data on member + count and channel use, we create stats.pythondiscord.com for + all to enjoy.

- Sep 15, 2019 + Jun 4th, 2020
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- +
+
-

The code of conduct is created

-

Inspired by the Adafruit, Rust and Django communities, an essential - community pillar is created; Our Code of - Conduct.

+

Python Discord is now listed on python.org/community

+

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.

- Oct 26th, 2019 + May 28th, 2020
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- Picture +
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Sebastiaan Zeef becomes an owner

-

After being a long time active contributor to our projects and the driving - force behind many of our events, Sebastiaan Zeef joins the Owners Team alongside Joe & Leon.

+

ModMail is now live

+

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.

- Sept 22nd, 2019 + May 25th, 2020
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- +
+
-

PyDis hits 30,000 members

-

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.

+

PyDis Game Jam 2020 with the “Three of a Kind” theme and Arcade as the technology

+

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.

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+ +
- Dec 22nd, 2019 + Apr 17th, 2020
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+
-

PyDis sixth code jam with the theme “Ancient technology” and the technology Kivy

-

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!

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- -
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Python Discord hits 40,000 members, and is now bigger than Liechtenstein.

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Python Discord hits 40,000 members, and is now bigger than Liechtenstein.

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+

PyDis sixth code jam with the theme “Ancient technology” and the technology Kivy

+

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!

+ +
+ +
- Apr 14, 2020 + Jan 17, 2020
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- +
+
-

PyDis Game Jam 2020 with the “Three of a Kind” theme and Arcade as the technology

-

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.

- -
- -
+

PyDis hits 30,000 members

+

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.

- Apr 17th, 2020 + Dec 22nd, 2019
-
- +
+ Picture
-

ModMail is now live

-

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.

+

Sebastiaan Zeef becomes an owner

+

After being a long time active contributor to our projects and the driving + force behind many of our events, Sebastiaan Zeef joins the Owners Team alongside Joe & Leon.

- May 25th, 2020 + Sept 22nd, 2019
-
- +
+
-

Python Discord is now listed on python.org/community

-

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.

+

The code of conduct is created

+

Inspired by the Adafruit, Rust and Django communities, an essential + community pillar is created; Our Code of + Conduct.

- May 28th, 2020 + Oct 26th, 2019
-
- +
+
-

Python Discord Public Statistics are now live

-

After getting numerous requests to publish beautiful data on member - count and channel use, we create stats.pythondiscord.com for - all to enjoy.

+

The Django rewrite of pythondiscord.com is now live!

+

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.

- Jun 4th, 2020 + Sep 15, 2019
-
- +
+
-

PyDis summer code jam 2020 with the theme “Early Internet” and Django as the technology

-

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:

- +

PyDis hits 15,000 members; the “hot ones special” video is released

-
- Jul 31st, 2020 + Apr 8th, 2019
-
- +
+
-

Python Discord is now the new home of the PyWeek event!

-

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.

+

django-simple-bulma is released on PyPi

+

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.

- Aug 16th, 2020 + Dec 19th, 2018
-
- Picture +
+
-

Python Discord hosts the 2020 CPython Core Developer Q&A

-
- -
+

PyDis hits 10,000 members

+

We partner with RLBot, move from GitLab to GitHub, and start putting + together the first Advent of Code event.

- Oct 21st, 2020 + Nov 24th, 2018
-
- +
+
-

Python Discord hits 100,000 members!

-

Only six months after hitting 40,000 users, we hit 100,000 users. A - monumental milestone, - and one we're very proud of. To commemorate it, we create this timeline.

+

First Hacktoberfest PyDis event; @Sir Lancebot is created

+

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.

- Oct 22nd, 2020 + Oct 1st, 2018
-
- +
+
-

We migrate all our infrastructure to Kubernetes

-

As our tech stack grows, we decide to migrate all our services over to a - container orchestration paradigm via Kubernetes. This gives us better control and scalability. - Joe Banks takes on the role as DevOps Lead. -

+

PyDis is now partnered with Discord; the vanity URL discord.gg/python is created

+

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.

- Nov 29th, 2020 + Jul 10th, 2018
-
- +
+
-

Advent of Code attracts hundreds of participants

-

- A total of 443 Python Discord members sign up to be part of - Eric Wastl's excellent Advent of Code event. - As always, we provide dedicated announcements, scoreboards, bot commands and channels for our members - to enjoy the event in. - -

+

PyDis hits 5,000 members and partners with r/Python

+

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.

- December 1st - 25th, 2020 + Jun 20th, 2018
-
-
- +
+
-

We release The PEP 8 song

-

We release the PEP 8 song on our YouTube channel, which finds tens of - thousands of listeners!

- -
- -
+

Do You Even Python and PyDis merger

+

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

- February 8th, 2021 + Jun 9th, 2018
-
- +
+
-

We now have 150,000 members!

-

Our growth continues to accelerate.

+

The privacy policy is created

+

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.

- Feb 18th, 2021 + May 21st, 2018
-
- +
+
-

Leon Sandøy appears on Talk Python To Me

-

Leon goes on the Talk Python to Me podcast with Michael Kennedy - to discuss the history of Python Discord, the critical importance of culture, and how to run a massive - community. You can find the episode at talkpython.fm. -

- - +

First code jam with the theme “snakes”

+

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 Sir Lancebot, and you can play with it by using the + .snakes command. For more information on this event, see the event page

- Mar 1st, 2021 + Mar 23rd, 2018
-
- +
+
-

We're on the Teaching Python podcast!

-

Leon joins Sean and Kelly on the Teaching Python podcast to discuss how the pandemic has - changed the way we learn, and what role communities like Python Discord can play in this new world. - You can find the episode at teachingpython.fm. +

PyDis hits 2,000 members; pythondiscord.com and @Python are live

+

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.

- -
- Mar 13th, 2021 + Mar 4th, 2018
-
- +
+ Picture
-
-

New feature: Weekly discussion channel

-

Every week (or two weeks), we'll be posting a new topic to discuss in a - channel called #weekly-topic-discussion. Our inaugural topic is a PyCon talk by Anthony Shaw called - Wily Python: Writing simpler and more maintainable Python.. -

- -
- -
+
+

Our logo is born. Thanks @Aperture!

+

+

- Mar 13th, 2021 + Feb 3rd, 2018
-
- +
+
-

Summer Code Jam 2020 Highlights

-

- We release a new video to our YouTube showing the best projects from the Summer Code Jam 2020. - Better late than never! -

+

Python Discord hits 1,000 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".

-
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+ Nov 10th, 2017
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+ Picture +
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Python Discord is created

+

Joe Banks becomes one of the owners around 3 days after it + is created, and Leon Sandøy (lemon) joins the owner team later in the year, when the community + has around 300 members.

- Mar 21st, 2021 + Jan 8th, 2017
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