Moving atprotocol .dev off of Ghost

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I was initially going to not use this category for “software stuff”, but ultimately things like the atprotocol.dev that we used for the 2025 conference, kicked off Tech Talks with, and ultimately used to grow a decent subscriber list, is in fact also community infrastructure.

AtmosphereConf Website

This was a great experience in @essentialrandom.bsky.social’s work in getting a great base set, going wild with lots of extra features, and then the community contributing on top.

I had initially been thinking that we could put upcoming events, maybe to support regional events, and basically EVERYTHING here… but realistically, it is a conference website, and we can put wild amounts of effort into it every year and have archives. But the domain is a conference domain, not a broader place to send people to.

atprotocol dev vs community

There is a place and a need for developer content, and the atprotocol.dev domain is perfect for this! TODO: see who wants to run with this, in collecting developer resources and topics, as a landing page for getting started, and so on.

I know dev tools is close to @ngerakines.me heart, @zzstoatzz.io has been hosting dev chats on Sundays, @trezy.codes has a number of tools, @essentialrandom.bsky.social is doing this for her community, and it’s in @brittanyellich.com’s dayjob wheelhouse.

I’m a good “I know a guy who knows stuff”, and can MC / host tech talks to a certain degree, but me leading dev tooling when I’m not agent whispering code typing isn’t maybe the best person here.

Which brings us to…

community landing page

Maybe we swap out atprotocol.dev for atprotocol.community to make it a broad space for community energy and infrastructure.

The blog at atprotocol.dev is on Ghost today and has a decent subscriber count. There are another 1000 people we’re going to email via Tito as a wrap up post – where do we send them to “subscribe by email”? We’ll make a form where people can stick their email and capture some preferences, and then we can start sending email from…

…a cool new blog aggregator community website.

Here’s my pitch of features:

  • atprotocol community blog: it’s an aggregator, we do some sort of allow list or otherwise figure out which standard.site compatible posts get aggregated there (and maybe it’s actually open, but we only “highlight” certain ones?)
  • mailing list: we do do email, and “just” email only sign up if people want (conference, events, and atproto community announcements are my rough three categories of lists to optin / out)
  • upcoming events: we figure out a standard for shared / group calendars and show a calendar building on all the amazing stuff that happened for talks for the conference → manual wiki version is here 2026 Events - ATProto, Open Social, Dev and More + we include all the regional events so there is one stop shop of all atproto related events
  • community badges: much like the badges that @essentialrandom.bsky.social already started, we make some community badges – our friends at npmx want this, others might too, this becomes a pattern / example

Is this something you want to work on / discuss further? Thoughts on which domains go where? More of a comment than a question?

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i really like this idea! as someone kind of in the middle of “dev” and “community,” i think the latter would go a long way in helping people understand the atmosphere, as well as introducing them to more of atproto beyond bluesky.

so yeah i think swapping out the landing page is a great idea. i don’t have any objections to it except maybe posting a warning beforehand for the current following?

also +1 to a standard for event calendars! and i adore the community badges concept!

let me know if there’s any way i can help though i doubt there’s much i can do as a non-dev haha

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Look, number one professional sysadmin @katproto.girlonthemoon.xyz can certainly help out with hosting and deployment crimes!

(Thank you for feedback!)

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Are you trying to nerdsnipe me? Because if so it will probably work. I’d be interested in helping with this!

In the recent “atmosphere account” discourse I was working on a login page and I realized I really wanted something to link for “what is an atmosphere account?”. I wonder if that could be something that lived at the .community domain? And having the .dev domain be a one-stop-shop for accessing and getting started in the dev community would be super neat!

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@quillmatiq.com is making moves there with a crew and should have something to share soon. I think with a straightforward single serving domain.

Woot!

Choosing one or more Semble collections and curating them is maybe the easiest start? I have some ATProto Advocacy links too — yes Dan’s posts keep converting people, I saw another new atmosphere entrant just today.

Might need like “language champions” identified too?

Unblocked from doing this, have to get other stuff moved over to community domain before we can flip the domains…

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i’m also down, already planning shared calendars for atmo.rsvp so I can work on that (maybe also email notifs for events? we’ll see), i’ll draft something for community calendars one of these days and post that in the events discourse