Thanks for asking @emma Iâm not sure how to get to that point. But I remember I used to be apart of a community which felt very tight knit. Someone posted saying that wanted a new avatar and a bunch of graphics people would offer a version within hours (only 5k members on that site with just a few hundred active).
People would be passionately writing tutorials on various stuff and other users would help review them on request.
Like Iâve been stuck asking someone to test my addon on a multi-monitor mac setup for a few days now, Im certain if I was on that community someone would have tested for me within minutes if not hours.
The way that community I think did it, was by creating teams out of the regular users. Creating user groups and putting them there. It took a lot of work so a dedicated stuff was put in place.
The community is still alive today although I am not apart of it so canât vouch for how itâs doing but it seems pretty good: http://www.neocodex.us
But if we could get a community like that in the Mozilla/Firefox zone that would be spectacular. A mix of dev, non-devs, fans, etc. Iâm not sure how to go about it though, as implementing a staff before the community base exists will just make the staff a failed experiement and will make us think twice before trying it again. The community i mentioned saw the users were getting active, as in the beginning all new members are very passionaite, so they were active between each other without any staff involvment. Then they put in a place to continue to fuel that collaboration between members socially. I think they got lucky to do that at the right time, as if you wait to long members lose their passion. And still even after staff came in people do eventually maybe move on.
I just recall that every member of that forum became a valuble contributor somehow. I would love to see that in Firefox. Disclaimer haha This isnt a plug to make me staff I actually do a ton of development and wonât have time for those staff activities.