# What is Online Community? | Blog **URL:** \ **Category:** Blog\ **Created:** [August 31, 2021, 2:18pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-is-online-community-blog/202234 "2021-08-31T14:18:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 13
**Author:** ![Judy\_Hawkins](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/judy_hawkins/32/345411_2.png) [@Judy\_Hawkins](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Judy_Hawkins)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2023, 3:36pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-is-online-community-blog/202234/13 "2023-12-27T15:36:57Z")
I’m a member of a community that coalesced on a large forum, NaNoWriMo. Over the course of a few years, we’d all been showing up on the same topics that had a culture of being nice to each other, both general topics (What got you smiling today?) and topics particular to writing. Then Nano melted down, and I spearheaded a move to our own little Discourse instance and we are now just shy of a month with a dozen of us generating posts all over the place. I’m the Admin, and I’m watching with delight our very engaged statistics. We’re working at collecting more of our scattered flock. There’s plenty of ways to define “community” but being part of one that is delighted to show up daily and share our successes and difficulties and like each other’s posts all over the place – it’s great. --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-is-online-community-blog/202234)._