Basic Information

This website aims to be a one-stop shop for anyone who helps to maintain a community space, whether their focus is on community management, moderation, or advising other members of their staff team. The Community Management Community (The CMC), a group of moderators and community managers with a wish to improve how everyone runs their community spaces, maintains the site.

This website was primarily built using SvelteKit, itself built using Svelte. Svelte is a component-based frontend framework, designed to compile its components to specialised code that manipulates the DOM directly, minimising the size of the client bundle and producing a more efficient result.

We've tried to create understandable articles to document the project and how you should contribute to it. If you feel like this section needs improvement, please feel free to contact us or submit a Pull Request.

We provide several configuration files that the site uses for styling and data display. All contributors should understand them, and how to edit them.

You need to consider several things to think about before you can work on a code-based contribution. This article has the basics, but you should also read all the other articles in this section.

When working on and submitting a contribution, you must read this section in full and follow its guidelines. Failure to do so may result in the rejection of your contributions, and repeated violations may result in you being banned from our GitHub organisation.

Before attempting to work on the project, it is important to understand its structure.

We've come up with several approaches to submitting contributions, organised by expected technical proficiency, and the type of contributor.

On this page, we've collected some tools that you may find useful when working on the site. Additionally, we've listed some tools that you should avoid.

Please remember not to use the restricted tools without proper consideration, and ensure you don't use any of the tools we prohibit.

While we created this site with a static site generator in mind, we understand that many people aren't developers, and thus wouldn't know how to create their own Svelte pages or components. For that reason, all articles on this site are written using a markup language known as Markdown.

If you've ever used Slack, Discord or GitHub, then you likely already know how to use Markdown!

For those who work on written content in Markdown, we provide some extra features that enable you to use more advanced formatting with minimal effort.