Gravity by Orbit - A free magazine about building & scaling communities

At Orbit, we chat with hundreds of community teams and see a lot of folks reinventing the wheel—solving the same problems and crafting similar approaches from scratch. When it comes to the practices employed by product community teams, a lot of it never gets shared. They live (and die) within individual groups, disconnected from each other. We wanted to do something to help those leading product communities by providing a means to share best practices. That's why we're excited to announce Gravity. Gravity is a print and web magazine that explores the theories and practices of establishing and scaling product communities. Each issue contains long-form articles, interviews with product community experts, beautiful illustrations, and other thoughtful content. Whether you're new to the community space, or you're a seasoned professional, Gravity will become your go-to resource for building and managing product communities of all sizes. For our inaugural issue, we're tackling a tricky subject — analytics — and it includes insights from Jono Bacon, Adam DuVander, Amanda Petersen, Erik Israni, and Jenifer De Figueiredo. And of course, there's plenty of information and observations from the team here at Orbit, too. Gravity is available in print and on the Web. Go read the first issue and let us know what you think. While you're at it, grab a (free!) physical copy for yourself too.

Congratulations Gareth, Maurice, Jarod and all the makers 👏🎊

Can’t wait to dive into the articles (I think I’m gonna wait on my print version to enjoy it even more 👀), but first I wanted to congratulate you Gareth, Maurice and Jarod for the launch and the visuals—it looks absolutely stunning!

This looks cool, well done and congrats on launch 😀 I've signed up

*Cannot* wait to dive into the print version!!! Great work, Gareth, Maurice, Jarod and team!!!

This looks very informative one. Congrats on the launch.

Nice! Any chance of a PDF or e-Reader version? My preference for longer-form magazine formats, anyway.

Ah this looks brilliant! Stunning graphics and layout. I can't wait to dig in.

We use orbit @getarctype to unify community activity from twitter and discord and it works very well. One missing piece has been strategies and ideas to take more action with the data and it looks like Gravity can provide that. I signed up!

Hello! @_gw Congratulations for the launch.

Congrats on your launch! Also, love the visuals and the glossary, extremely useful for newbies on Community Management (like myself)

Congrats on the launch, ?makers!

@_gw This looks cool! Congratulations for the launch.👍

We used Orbit prior to our acquisition by Mandiant, and found it to be extremely helpful in identifying those key contributors. This led us to deepen our relationship with those folks, eventually contracting or hiring them directly. Big fan of what the team is doing.

Looks very useful, congrats on the launch!!!🚀

This is fantastic timing. Community is a big focus for Terrain this year. So I'm excited to test this out!

This seems equally valuable for remote HR departments as it is for community managers. Nice one!

Great product! We’re releasing our product which will feature a very popular meme, hide the pain harold this Friday. Would be nice to get some upvotes from you too. I already told my team

This is such a good initiative, congratulations!

Great find, and congrats on the launch. I started to read the issue, and I found some good nuggets. 👍