The path that leads newcomers into our community is the Community page on our website. I've recently added the following message, right above the link to join: "Before joining the community, please familiarize yourself with the member handbook." If you have a few minutes, I'd love it if you clicked that there blue member handbook hyperlink, read through the text, and pointed out all my poor phrasings, typos, or inherently bad ideas. Though if it passes muster, a "LGTM" would be just peachy. And in the grand Osborne tradition of pre-announcing... now that this Member Handbook exists, my next projects are: • The Podcast (took a break for the summer) • A community wiki / knowledgebase

LGTM

I think a lot of people get directly recommend the Slack and don't come via that page. Is there any way to link it prominently to new users in Slack?

Yes — I've added a new welcome message to the "Get Started" page when someone joins the slack:

You made it to the Future of Coding community Slack. Welcome!

Please make sure you've read the Slack guidelines in our Member Handbook. They'll tell you exactly how to formulate your messages and replies.

First stop: share a bit about yourself in #CC2JRGVLK.

Enjoy.

I appreciate the need for this, and the hard work that went into it, but I am also selfishly excited for new podcast episodes 😅

Me too!

Hi Ivan! the Handbook looks great and gives a good intro on how to use slack.

Not sure yet. I'll talk more about that when my life allows it. Gotta do one thing at a time.