CitizenCon 2952: Community Hub Reveal

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   foreign my name is Tyler Witkin and I'm the director of community at Cloud Imperium games each and every day we're taken aback by the tremendous amount of creative Community content coming from all of you from a small 3D printed MSR that fits in the palm of your hand to a full-size replica sand castle of a 300i no joke someone actually did that in fact maybe they can pop it up right here wow on the community side we've always felt that if our developers were going to push the boundaries of what's possible with technology that we needed to match that level of ambition with the

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   engagement and tools that we provide to help the community thrive with the incredible amount of creative content flowing from our community it was a no-brainer that we needed to find a better way to support that so we've teamed up with our good friends at turbulent to completely rebuild the community Hub and we're very excited to show it to you today the team has been hard at work and focused on building out a completely new platform that will make both sharing and browsing content easier than ever before to build this community up we really try to keep the Star season identity see what was good for the community and what they would like this is where most people will go when they when they want to search for new content or discover new people who plays Star

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   Citizen and make posts in the community Hub so it's a very good place to engage with others we want the community of Star Citizen to have this space that they deserve outside of the game to keep talking and creating about the game share and comment with each other now I know I'm a little biased but for these reasons and for many others I believe that the Star Citizen Community is the best and the most creative community in all of gaming in fact if you agree go ahead and drop an 07 in chat go ahead by the way this bit is pre-recorded so I'm going to assume that you are spamming chat like crazy right now thank you don't let me down when creating a new post you'll be able to choose between three post option so that would be an audio a video and an image type of post inside of them you'll be able to

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   obviously put a title in this description in there but also to pick and choose from a variety of different categories your post relates to and that comes in play into the Discover page on the Discover page you can browse over all the content you can also filter content with your preferences for example if I want to see only video that are about Cosplay I can now filter that and find only videos about Cosplay and I can also sort them by popularity or by date when you first arrive on the community Hub you arrive on the home page which features uh top trending content as well as posts from people you follow because yes you can now follow people on the new community Hub you have a live stream section which you can see

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   the top players who play Star Citizen right now you have a tutorial section also on the front page and there's also the sidebar and it's not just all about screenshots videos and crafts it's also about the human connection we make with like-minded space fares that we've met along the way it's about friendship personally for me I've made countless meaningful connections with so many people that I otherwise never would have met outside of this community in many of those connections I know I will cherish and carry with me for the rest of my life and I'm confident that many of you have similar stories which is exactly why it was vital to us to find better ways to keep you all connected with one another the committee is a place of creativity and the exchange between all the Star Citizen

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   players the team has put a lot of work in it while working on it since quite a long time we really put a lot of love and care in this and we really hope the community will enjoy as much as us so you can head over to our website dive in check out all the new features break the new features it's okay it's part of the process and as always we want to hear your thoughts so make sure to head over to our dedicated feedback thread on spectrum and let us know what you think and this is just the beginning we've got so many cool things planned for the months ahead such as fatwide notifications a massive shared content calendar where you can sort between official cig events and Community created and organized events and so much more and the best part about the new community hub it's live right now