{"id":739,"date":"2022-04-27T10:58:11","date_gmt":"2022-04-27T08:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/retromat.org\/blog\/?p=739"},"modified":"2022-04-27T10:58:11","modified_gmt":"2022-04-27T08:58:11","slug":"the-retromat-forum-is-live-join","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/retromat.org\/blog\/the-retromat-forum-is-live-join\/","title":{"rendered":"The Retromat Forum is live \u2013 Join :)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>tl;dr The <a href=\"https:\/\/retromat.org\/blog\/forum\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Retromat Forum<\/a> is live \u2013 Connect with fellow facilitators<br><\/strong><br>It&#8217;s high time to support a community around Retromat that is independent of me!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For example, because there are a lot of cool activities that never make it into Retromat \u2013 for various reasons (such as being tied to a specific time of year). But these activities would still be valuable to a lot of fellow facilitators. And in the <a href=\"https:\/\/retromat.org\/blog\/forum\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Retromat Forum<\/a> these can still be widely shared!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Another reason is that y&#8217;all are amazing people! The overwhelming majority of Retromat users I talk to are lovely and insightful and more of you should get to meet each other! (Only if you want to, of course!)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When I thought about which platform to build, I landed on forums. I&#8217;m probably showing my age here&#8230; It&#8217;s just that as far as asynchronous exchanges go, forums have always worked for me. The old phpbb forums, Reddit (arguably a kind of forum). My hope is that I&#8217;m not alone with that and forums work for you, too!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/retromat.org\/blog\/forum\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"773\" src=\"https:\/\/retromat.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/forum-1024x773.png\" alt=\"Screenshot of the Retromat Forum\" class=\"wp-image-743\" srcset=\"https:\/\/retromat.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/forum-1024x773.png 1024w, https:\/\/retromat.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/forum-300x226.png 300w, https:\/\/retromat.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/forum-768x580.png 768w, https:\/\/retromat.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/forum.png 1338w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 706px) 89vw, (max-width: 767px) 82vw, 740px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>You surely know why communities hum or fall silent: They rise and fall with the people and discussions in them. I&#8217;ve met enough of you to know that you are interesting people with all sorts of tricks up your sleeves so I&#8217;d love for you to join! Get an account and share that activity! Or ask that question \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button is-style-fill\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link\" href=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Check out the Forum!<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>tl;dr The Retromat Forum is live \u2013 Connect with fellow facilitatorsIt&#8217;s high time to support a community around Retromat that is independent of me! For example, because there are a lot of cool activities that never make it into Retromat \u2013 for various reasons (such as being tied to a specific time of year). But &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/retromat.org\/blog\/the-retromat-forum-is-live-join\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Retromat Forum is live \u2013 Join :)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/retromat.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/retromat.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/retromat.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/retromat.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/retromat.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=739"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/retromat.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":744,"href":"https:\/\/retromat.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739\/revisions\/744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/retromat.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/retromat.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/retromat.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}