/community-building

community-building

Build developer communities that thrive.

What It Does

Guides you through building and managing developer communities on Discord, Slack, and forums. Covers channel structure, onboarding, engagement programs, handling toxicity, and community-led growth.

When to Use

• Starting a developer community
• Improving an existing community
• Increasing engagement
• Dealing with moderation challenges
• When you say "developer community," "Discord server," "Slack community," or "community engagement"

Quick Start

/community-building

I'm starting a Discord community for our CLI tool.
Target: DevOps engineers using Kubernetes.
Goal: Build engaged community for support and feedback.

The skill will:

1. Load your developer audience context
2. Design channel structure
3. Create onboarding experience
4. Plan engagement programs
5. Set up moderation guidelines

Key Frameworks

Platform Selection

Channel Structure

INFORMATION: welcome, announcements, rules
GENERAL: general, off-topic, show-what-you-built
SUPPORT: help, troubleshooting, feature-requests
COMMUNITY: jobs, events, content

Engagement Programs

Code of Conduct Enforcement

1. Warning (first offense, good faith)
2. Temp mute (repeated issues)
3. Temp ban (serious violations)
4. Permanent ban (egregious/repeated)

Files

Included Guidance

• Channel structure templates
• Onboarding message templates
• Code of conduct template
• Moderation playbook
• De-escalation techniques
• Engagement metrics

Health Metrics

Tools

• Octolens — Monitor community mentions across platforms
• MEE6 / Carl-bot — Discord moderation
• Luma — Event management

Related Skills

• developer-audience-context — Know your members
• open-source-marketing — OSS community
• developer-advocacy — Personal brand in community