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.

This is so useful! We're hiring our first community manager Coa and can't wait to share this helpful resource with them!

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

Congrats on the launch, ?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!

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

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.

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!

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

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

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

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

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

Congrats on the early success and the BIG LAUNCH! I'm personally excited to dive in and see what you have to offer - knowledge-wise! Good luck! - Adam Madden

!Orbit is a great community tool, we use it daily. And these guys have (and share) a great knowledge. thank you!

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

This looks very informative one. Congrats on the launch.

Very nice! Just signed up

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

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