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{% extends 'base/base.html' %}
{% load static %}
{% block title %}Timeline{% endblock %}
{% block head %}
<link rel="stylesheet" href="{% static "css/home/timeline.css" %}">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="{% static "css/home/index.css" %}">
{% endblock %}
{% block content %}
{% include "base/navbar.html" %}
<section class="cd-timeline js-cd-timeline">
<div class="container max-width-lg cd-timeline__container">
<div class="cd-timeline__block">
<div class="cd-timeline__img cd-timeline__img--picture">
<img src={% static "images/timeline/cd-icon-picture.svg" %} alt="Picture">
</div>
<div class="cd-timeline__content text-component">
<h2>Python Discord is created</h2>
<p class="color-contrast-medium"><strong>joe</strong> becomes one of the owners around 3 days after it
is created, and <strong>lemon</strong> joins the owner team later in the year, when the community
has around 300 members.</p>
<div class="flex justify-between items-center">
<span class="cd-timeline__date">Jan 8th, 2017</span>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="cd-timeline__block">
<div class="cd-timeline__img cd-timeline__img--picture">
<i class="fa fa-users"></i>
</div>
<div class="cd-timeline__content text-component">
<h2>Python Discord hits 1,000 members</h2>
<p class="color-contrast-medium">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".</p>
<div class="flex justify-between items-center">
<span class="cd-timeline__date">Nov 10th, 2017</span>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="cd-timeline__block">
<div class="cd-timeline__img cd-timeline__img--picture">
<img src={% static "images/timeline/cd-icon-picture.svg" %} alt="Picture">
</div>
<div class="cd-timeline__content text-component">
<h2>Our logo is born. Thanks @Aperture!</h2>
<p class="color-contrast-medium"><img
src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/python-discord/branding/master/logos/logo_discord/logo_discord_256.png">
</p>
<div class="flex justify-between items-center">
<span class="cd-timeline__date">Feb 3rd, 2018</span>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="cd-timeline__block">
<div class="cd-timeline__img cd-timeline__img--picture">
<i class="fa fa-users"></i>
</div>
<div class="cd-timeline__content text-component">
<h2>PyDis hits 2,000 members; pythondiscord.com and @Python are live</h2>
<p class="color-contrast-medium">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.
</p>
<div class="flex justify-between items-center">
<span class="cd-timeline__date">Mar 4th, 2018</span>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="cd-timeline__block">
<div class="cd-timeline__img cd-timeline__img--picture">
<i class="fa fa-dice"></i>
</div>
<div class="cd-timeline__content text-component">
<h2>First code jam with the theme “snakes”</h2>
<p class="color-contrast-medium">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
<code>.snakes</code> command. For more information on this event, see <a
href="https://pythondiscord.com/pages/code-jams/code-jam-1-snakes-bot/">the event page</a></p>
<div class="flex justify-between items-center">
<span class="cd-timeline__date">Mar 23rd, 2018</span>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="cd-timeline__block">
<div class="cd-timeline__img cd-timeline__img--picture">
<i class="fa fa-user-secret"></i>
</div>
<div class="cd-timeline__content text-component">
<h2>The privacy policy is created</h2>
<p class="color-contrast-medium">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 <a
href="https://pythondiscord.com/pages/privacy/">our privacy policy</a> up to date with all
changes, and since April 2020 we've started doing <a
href="https://pythondiscord.com/pages/data-reviews/">monthly data reviews</a>.</p>
<div class="flex justify-between items-center">
<span class="cd-timeline__date">May 21st, 2018</span>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="cd-timeline__block">
<div class="cd-timeline__img cd-timeline__img--picture">
<i class="fa fa-handshake"></i>
</div>
<div class="cd-timeline__content text-component">
<h2>Do You Even Python and PyDis merger</h2>
<p class="color-contrast-medium">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</p>
<div class="flex justify-between items-center">
<span class="cd-timeline__date">Jun 9th, 2018</span>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="cd-timeline__block">
<div class="cd-timeline__img cd-timeline__img--picture">
<i class="fa fa-users"></i>
</div>
<div class="cd-timeline__content text-component">
<h2>PyDis hits 5,000 members and partners with r/Python</h2>
<p class="color-contrast-medium">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.</p>
<div class="flex justify-between items-center">
<span class="cd-timeline__date">Jun 20th, 2018</span>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="cd-timeline__block">
<div class="cd-timeline__img cd-timeline__img--picture">
<i class="fa fa-handshake"></i>
</div>
<div class="cd-timeline__content text-component">
<h2>PyDis is now partnered with Discord; the vanity URL discord.gg/python is created</h2>
<p class="color-contrast-medium">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.</p>
<div class="flex justify-between items-center">
<span class="cd-timeline__date">Jul 10th, 2018</span>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="cd-timeline__block">
<div class="cd-timeline__img cd-timeline__img--picture">
<i class="fa fa-dice"></i>
</div>
<div class="cd-timeline__content text-component">
<h2>First Hacktoberfest PyDis event; @SeasonalBot is created</h2>
<p class="color-contrast-medium">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.</p>
<div class="flex justify-between items-center">
<span class="cd-timeline__date">Oct 1st, 2018</span>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="cd-timeline__block">
<div class="cd-timeline__img cd-timeline__img--picture">
<i class="fa fa-users"></i>
</div>
<div class="cd-timeline__content text-component">
<h2>PyDis hits 10,000 members</h2>
<p class="color-contrast-medium">We partner with RLBot, move from GitLab to GitHub, and start putting
together the first Advent of Code event.</p>
<div class="flex justify-between items-center">
<span class="cd-timeline__date">Nov 24th, 2018</span>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="cd-timeline__block">
<div class="cd-timeline__img cd-timeline__img--picture">
<i class="fa fa-upload"></i>
</div>
<div class="cd-timeline__content text-component">
<h2>django-simple-bulma is released on PyPi</h2>
<p class="color-contrast-medium">Our very first package on PyPI, <a
href="https://pypi.org/project/django-simple-bulma/">django-simple-bulma</a> is a package that
sets up the Bulma CSS framework for your Django application and lets you configure everything in
settings.py.</p>
<div class="flex justify-between items-center">
<span class="cd-timeline__date">Dec 19th, 2018</span>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="cd-timeline__block">
<div class="cd-timeline__img cd-timeline__img--picture">
<i class="fa fa-users"></i>
</div>
<div class="cd-timeline__content text-component">
<h2>PyDis hits 15,000 members; the “hot ones special” video is released</h2>
<div class="video-container">
<iframe class="video" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/DIBXg8Qh7bA" frameborder="0"
allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture"
allowfullscreen></iframe>
</div>
<div class="flex justify-between items-center">
<span class="cd-timeline__date">Apr 8th, 2019</span>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="cd-timeline__block">
<div class="cd-timeline__img cd-timeline__img--picture">
<i class="fa fa-code"></i>
</div>
<div class="cd-timeline__content text-component">
<h2>The Django rewrite of pythondiscord.com is now live!</h2>
<p class="color-contrast-medium">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.</p>
<div class="flex justify-between items-center">
<span class="cd-timeline__date">Sep 15, 2019</span>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="cd-timeline__block">
<div class="cd-timeline__img cd-timeline__img--picture">
<i class="fa fa-scroll"></i>
</div>
<div class="cd-timeline__content text-component">
<h2>The code of conduct is created</h2>
<p class="color-contrast-medium">Inspired by the Adafruit, Rust and Django communities, an essential
community pillar is created; Our <a href="https://pythondiscord.com/pages/code-of-conduct/">Code of
Conduct.</a></p>
<div class="flex justify-between items-center">
<span class="cd-timeline__date">Oct 26th, 2019</span>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="cd-timeline__block">
<div class="cd-timeline__img cd-timeline__img--picture">
<i class="fa fa-users"></i>
</div>
<div class="cd-timeline__content text-component">
<h2>PyDis hits 30,000 members</h2>
<p class="color-contrast-medium">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.</p>
<div class="flex justify-between items-center">
<span class="cd-timeline__date">Dec 22nd, 2019</span>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="cd-timeline__block">
<div class="cd-timeline__img cd-timeline__img--picture">
<i class="fa fa-dice"></i>
</div>
<div class="cd-timeline__content text-component">
<h2>PyDis sixth code jam with the theme “Ancient technology” and the technology Kivy</h2>
<p class="color-contrast-medium">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!</p>
<div class="video-container">
<iframe class="video" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/8fbZsGrqBzo" frameborder="0"
allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture"
allowfullscreen></iframe>
</div>
<div class="flex justify-between items-center">
<span class="cd-timeline__date">Jan 17, 2020</span>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="cd-timeline__block">
<div class="cd-timeline__img cd-timeline__img--picture">
<i class="fa fa-question"></i>
</div>
<div class="cd-timeline__content text-component">
<h2>The new help channel system is live</h2>
<p class="color-contrast-medium">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 <a
href="https://pythondiscord.com/pages/resources/guides/help-channels/">Help Channel Guide</a> to
help our members fully understand how the system works.</p>
<div class="flex justify-between items-center">
<span class="cd-timeline__date">Apr 5th, 2020</span>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="cd-timeline__block">
<div class="cd-timeline__img cd-timeline__img--picture">
<i class="fa fa-users"></i>
</div>
<div class="cd-timeline__content text-component">
<h2>Python Discord hits 40,000 members, and is now bigger than Liechtenstein.</h2>
<p class="color-contrast-medium"><img
src="https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/354619224620138496/699666518476324954/unknown.png">
</p>
<div class="flex justify-between items-center">
<span class="cd-timeline__date">Apr 14, 2020</span>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="cd-timeline__block">
<div class="cd-timeline__img cd-timeline__img--picture">
<i class="fa fa-gamepad"></i>
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<div class="cd-timeline__content text-component">
<h2>PyDis Game Jam 2020 with the “Three of a Kind” theme and Arcade as the technology</h2>
<p class="color-contrast-medium">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.</p>
<div class="video-container">
<iframe class="video" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/KkLXMvKfEgs" frameborder="0"
allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture"
allowfullscreen></iframe>
</div>
<div class="flex justify-between items-center">
<span class="cd-timeline__date">Apr 17th, 2020</span>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="cd-timeline__block">
<div class="cd-timeline__img cd-timeline__img--picture">
<i class="fa fa-life-ring"></i>
</div>
<div class="cd-timeline__content text-component">
<h2>ModMail is now live</h2>
<p class="color-contrast-medium">Having originally planned to write our own ModMail bot from scratch, we
come across an exceptionally good <a href="https://github.com/kyb3r/modmail">ModMail bot by
kyb3r</a> and decide to just self-host that one instead.</p>
<div class="flex justify-between items-center">
<span class="cd-timeline__date">May 25th, 2020</span>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="cd-timeline__block">
<div class="cd-timeline__img cd-timeline__img--picture">
<i class="fa fa-handshake"></i>
</div>
<div class="cd-timeline__content text-component">
<h2>Python Discord is now listed on python.org/community</h2>
<p class="color-contrast-medium">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/. <a href="https://youtu.be/yciX2meIkXI?t=3">There was much rejoicing.</a></p>
<div class="flex justify-between items-center">
<span class="cd-timeline__date">May 28th, 2020</span>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="cd-timeline__block">
<div class="cd-timeline__img cd-timeline__img--picture">
<i class="fa fa-chart-bar"></i>
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<div class="cd-timeline__content text-component">
<h2>Python Discord Public Statistics are now live</h2>
<p class="color-contrast-medium">After getting numerous requests to publish beautiful data on member
count and channel use, we create <a href="https://stats.pythondiscord.com/">stats.pythondiscord.com</a> for all to enjoy.</p>
<div class="flex justify-between items-center">
<span class="cd-timeline__date">Jun 4th, 2020</span>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="cd-timeline__block">
<div class="cd-timeline__img cd-timeline__img--picture">
<i class="fa fa-dice"></i>
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<h2>PyDis summer code jam 2020 with the theme “Early Internet” and Django as the technology</h2>
<p class="color-contrast-medium">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:</p>
<div class="video-container">
<iframe class="video" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/OFtm8f2iu6c" frameborder="0"
allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture"
allowfullscreen></iframe>
</div>
<div class="flex justify-between items-center">
<span class="cd-timeline__date">Jul 31st, 2020</span>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="cd-timeline__block">
<div class="cd-timeline__img cd-timeline__img--picture">
<i class="fa fa-handshake"></i>
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<h2>Python Discord is now the new home of the PyWeek event!</h2>
<p class="color-contrast-medium">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 <a
href="https://pyweek.org/">their official website</a>.</p>
<div class="flex justify-between items-center">
<span class="cd-timeline__date">Aug 16th, 2020</span>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="cd-timeline__block">
<div class="cd-timeline__img cd-timeline__img--picture">
<i class="fa fa-users"></i>
</div>
<div class="cd-timeline__content text-component">
<h2>Python Discord hits 100,000 members.</h2>
<p class="color-contrast-medium">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.</p>
<div class="flex justify-between items-center">
<span class="cd-timeline__date">Sep ??, 2020</span>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</section>
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{% endblock %}
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