I am personally not overly impressed with the strength of the ICP community, hence only two stars.
DSCVR is a portal for open discussion about all aspects of Internet Computer, from dapps to memes to Web3 news. There are even some cool games to play there, albeit quite basic ones. Currently there are just over 14.5k users. It's hard to gauge how much engagement is happening there but at the time of writing there was one post in the general area that was put up 6 hours ago and had only 32 likes and one comment.
Discord has nearly 15k members but it is mainly geared toward developers. Another dev site is the Dfinity forum where technical discussion forums have been set up on a variety of topics. There are also weekly meetings held on Wednesdays for devs called the 'Discord Dev Office Hour.'
X has 669.6k followers under the Dfinity name while Dfinity Developers has 29k followers, making X the space with the most followers overall. A post on the main channel made 6 hours ago at the time of posting (15 August 2023 at 23:00) had 84 likes and 4976 views with other similar posts reflect a similar level of engagement. I would've expected a bit more activity given the size of the following and some of the recent developments announced by the project team.
There is no Telegram channel which I am surprised about given how long the project has been in existence.
Like many more technical projects, my impression is that there are quite a few places for people to get together to discuss various aspects related to the development of the project and the dapps associated with it, but very few places for non-technical discussions to be had.
I think this is a shame and I, for one, would welcome a space on TG for general chat and a forum for price discussion. Not having these spaces for the average retail investor can potentially have an detrimental impact on the price of the project longer term as it won't necessarily be a project in the public's consciousness in the next bull run. Show Less
