Community Building Growth Trends
Check out the ‘community building’ spike from Exploding Topics. ❤️

Proof of X
From Julian Lehr
At their core, social networks are primarily about one thing: Building social capital through signaling. As I wrote in Signaling as a Service, signaling can be broken down into three different components:
- Signaling Message
A hidden status subtext you’re trying to convey about yourself - Signaling Distribution
The channel through which you’re communicating your signaling message - Signaling Amplification
Ways to boost your signaling message to compete against status rivals
More community building news:
- Without PURPOSE, no community — Niklas Lohmann
- Slack is Fumbling Developers and the Rise of Developer Discords — swyx.io
- 🔥 How to crush amazing posts on DEV — Waylon Walker
- The key components for building a React community — Stack Overflow blog
- Audience Engagement tools to create communities that care. — Erin Mikail
- EP63: Recreating Events to be Memorable & Incredible Online w/ Bitwise Industries — C2C 🎧
- Episode 027 - Building Community Engagement and Content Through Online Webinars — Peers Over Beers 🎧
- Dating, Religion and Community in Modern Times with JSwipe’s David Yarus — Create Community 🎧
- Launching a Membership Community (Without a Community Manager) — Noelle Flowers
- “Great Communities Have Great Leaders” — Get Together
- How Social Marketing Interfaces with Community with Michelle Dalton — CHAOSS 🎧
- Comparing 6 common social platforms for your community (Hint: it’s probably less important than you think) — Commsor
- The Emerging Role of AI in Online Communities: Our 2020 Research — Cohere🎧
The golden era of the design community is over.
— Itay Dreyfus (@itaydre) August 4, 2020
Thoughts about the history of the online design community and the rise of other communities.
1/ I miss the days of online design forums when conversations were purely about design.
❌ "I build communities."
— SPINKS | spinks.eth (@DavidSpinks) August 7, 2020
✅ “I help customers support and educate each other at scale.”
✅ “I design social experiences that attract leads and engage our top prospects.”
✅ "I empower our biggest advocates to organize experiences around the globe on our behalf."