The Discourse team has expanded to 20 members, with nine new hires joining the 100% remote company. erlend_sh announced the growth, highlighting the new team members—Joffrey Jaffeux, Sarah Hawk, Michael Brown, Joshua Rosenfield, Gerhard Schlager, Andrew Schleifer, Kris Aubuchon, Vinoth Kannan, and Simon Cossar—and noting that many were already familiar from the community. The team now spans 10 timezones, and the announcement includes artistic busts of the team members, created by Nick Staab. SidV celebrated the expansion, while travis and codinghorror joked about the Roman busts. purldator suggested Jeff’s bust should wear a diadem. oiclid asked about the significance of the busts’ directions and colors, and HAWK clarified that the directions and colors were random, with only the hawk feather having intentional meaning. fzngagan humorously noted the busts resembled TikTok filters.
Over the last few months we’ve added a whopping 9 members to the Discourse team! We held off on any big announcements until our new team page was ready for primetime.
No. I think the only thing of significance on any of them is my hawk feather! I wanted wings…
We gave the artist a few disparate pictures of our faces on different angles and he came back with these amazing drawings. We then randomly chose background colours because we were having difficulty distinguishing between our avatars at a glance.
Discourse to the moon! 
