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# Welcome to the subreddit and a few changes

We've come a long way since this community was created 8 years ago. We have grown bigger than we could've imagined.

At the beginning of 2020, our subreddit had ~30k subcribers. About a year later, we've almost 3x-ed.

If you've joined recently, welcome to the community; we're elated to have you. If you've been around a while, welcome again.

Growth on its own can be a double-edged sword. While it gives some validation (_we must be doing something right, if so many people are coming here!_), it also potentially cultivates toxic tribal mentality.

With increase in size, we need to take the next step to scale our communication, so we can help our members better.

If anything, we now have bigger responsibility to do right by a lot more people.

We're announcing some efforts and committing to those publicly. We hope to get some of you to volunteer with these, without compromising on prior engagements on your part.

### Initiative 1: Revamping our Wiki

Reddit as a platform doesn't offer lot of functionalities that most modern knowledge base software provides.

So we've decided to move our wiki archive to GitHub, and host our own web presence at https://indiainvestments.github.io/

With your help, we'd be able to grow our knowledge base, index it, organize it, link it, and share it.

It's a lofty goal, but we're not afraid to dream big.

Presently, we're working on three wiki chapters (prioritized based on popular requests):

- Due Diligence / Fundamental Analysis
- Excel and How to Build your own trackers
- Everything Bonds

We hope these would help newbies skill up on these areas, while also aiding veterans to revisit some basic concepts.

[More details are available on our roadmap](https://github.com/indiainvestments/roadmap/issues/1).

### Initiative 2 : Discord

[Our Discord](https://discord.gg/hqBNg4u) presence has grown massively as well, from a few hundred to near 3k in a year. And we didn't have to give away any Nitro or Amazon Gift card for this!

Common concerns around a chat based community can be same repetitive queries. The newbies would ask similar questions, which might be first-time for them individually, but not so for people who're a bit advanced.

We certainly don't want to give a template response, such as _read the wiki_. These just create a sort of divide between newer & older joinees, and possibly sends a message they're not welcome there.

I myself have learned a lot interacting with absolute beginners, who were looking for help; which I probably won't have learned otherwise.

We're attempting to resolve some of these issues, by having a robust FAQ section for common queries, maintained and synced from GitHub, and triggered with bots.

Idea is that most people should be able to get response to their query, which might be a common query, without much human involvement. This would free everyone up to continue discussing their areas of interest, without being interrupted as much.

We'd be investing heavily in our Discord bots, to reduce overhead for our members, both for newer and older subscribers.

[This is what our FAQs look like today](https://hackmd.io/OruFuWURTOOMpkcZdhjniA?view), with more to come.

### Initiative 3: Empowering Collaborators

Before we made this announcement, we worked in a close group with handful of people, to ship the initial changes.

But now that we're opening it up to everyone, others who want to contribute, should have a clear path towards being able to do that. It should be easy to contribute, without having to jump through a bunch of hoops.

We've done our best to select tools / tech / platforms, that are free, well known, work well even on mobile, and not just on laptop or desktop.

You can contribute in so many ways! It doesn't have to be writing docs - even reviewing what others have written is a tremendous contribution.

Our task trackers are filled with kanban cards, and we could really use some help. Especially with the lofty goals we have, for our [Due Diligence](https://github.com/indiainvestments/roadmap/issues/2) related sections of the wiki.

We prefer passion and interest, over knowledge. Just the fact that you're willing to help, is more important than anything else in grand scheme of things. Knowledge can always be acquired, if you are passionate.

[Do read through on how to collaborate](https://hackmd.io/bAQuiEDRTTqr1XYVatTWIg?view)

You can reach out to us via modmail or Discord.







