by Mitchell Cuevas on November 9, 2021

Several months ago, the Stacks Foundation volunteered to step up and help with stacks.co. Initially designed and built by the fine folks at Hiro, they are now laser-focused on developer tools and the beautiful Hiro Wallets. We’re excited to facilitate the next chapter for stacks.co which will phase in tools for management by the community and an expansion of its content and lead-generation strategy.

We believe as the ecosystem continues to grow, stacks.co will only become more important as an access point to Stacks. The current incarnation has served us well since the launch of Stacks 2.0, but there are opportunities to make it a more powerful player in helping people discover and understand Stacks. Today, I want to outline some of the initial plans we have for stacks.co, share some of the work we’ve been doing, and outline opportunities to get involved and define its future.

While it’s been a whirlwind 2021 supporting major efforts like Clarity Universe, the Stacks Accelerator, and the new Stacks Residence Program, we have managed to make good progress on stacks.co in the background. Here’s what what we’ve been up to:

• As a handoff gift to the ecosystem, Hiro provided some improved designs which we’ve now implemented. This upgraded look and feel and are staged and in the final stages of review.
• We’ve onboarded dedicated contractors to manage the project and do the technical work, and are in the process of finding a go-to designer to handle the need for new pages and content areas.

We expect to launch a refreshed version of stacks.co on November 18th.

I’m thinking of upcoming work in terms of themes and generally want to avoid committing to hard dates and specifics for now. This will be an ongoing process informed by data and feedback, so I prefer to keep the web team and contributors who join them free to make decisions based on their expertise, observations, and data.

We want stacks.co to be an always up-to-date powerhouse of Stacks information that helps guide millions deeper into the ecosystem. For that to happen and for the site to reach its full potential, the community will have to play a critical role. If you think about the sheer volume of new things happening around us, you’ll quickly realize it’s impossible for one person or even a small group to keep up. The work stxnftcalendar.com is doing is a great example of how we’ll need to team up to make sure we’re always on top of and amplifying the work of builders on this site.

A major next step is getting the tools in place to make this feasible and we’d like to make sure everyone who has ideas on the best way to handle this is heard. To start, we've opened a Discord channel, where you can chime in with your thoughts.

In addition, I'm sure there are 'absolutely-must-be-updated-right-this-minute-or-something-bad-will-happen' type requests folks will have. For those, please send an email to website@stacks.org and for the time being and I will personally see to it that sensical updates are made in a timely manner. Please be nice to me and patient, this is certainly an important project, but it's not necessarily going to be top priority everyday ❤️.