Discussion: Community engagement

[matthiasrohmer]

Sebastian correctly stated that there's no real forum around AMP, in our last call. Funnily we received the exact same feedback by a member of the community in ampproject/amp.dev#3895 that I wanted to share to continue discussion and collection of ideas.

In regards to the forum thing, please see laracasts.com it is an absolute joy to use that ,learn and collaborate. On the other hand laravel and amp really work well together. But that beside the point.

Laracasts has definitely aged well! I think we're heading in a similar direction with the How to AMP series. Also, in my opinion, the YouTube comment section would a good feedback channel for users if it would be monitored and moderated by us. To top it off, that's the most recent comment on the linked video:

The problem is that stackoverflow is not a dedicated spot for amp users. Not to mention that if you are working on a project and try to learn, good luck asking more than two questions before you get banned because somebody did not like how you posted it. I think just like laravel, amp deserves its own spot. I would like to see more of a community rather than everybody on its own type of thing like it is now.

This is something I can fully endorse as I felt the same when starting to code but also by feedback from younger colleagues in my team. StackOverflow is definitely not the most welcoming community...