An Introduction to Telugu JetPunk

Hello everyone, welcome to the 2023 Ugadi Blog, or the first Telugu Community Blog.

Today, March 22 is Telugu new year, called ఉగాది (ugādi) in Telugu. In the traditional Telugu calendar, there are 60 year names which repeat as a cycle. This Ugadi is the beginning of the year శోభకృతు (śōbhakṛtu), which last happened in 1963. This is a special new year on JetPunk as it is the first year a whole Telugu community celebrates here together. After 15 years of our favorite website existing, our favorite language finally has a community dedicated to it, and it is planning to grow from here. On this day, the current community will introduce itself to those here interested, both Telugu and others. You will also be able to find the Telugu version of this blog soon.

In this blog, I will go over the history of Telugu on JetPunk, the formation of this community, its current stage, future, some statistics, and each of its main members will also have a section to introduce ourselves and our plans for this community in the next year.

So if you're a Telugu speaker or interested in this community, this is the blog for you.

By AntiMatter8192

2021 gave us the modern beginnings of Telugu on JetPunk. I resurfaced to the website and became active in the blogging community in the middle of the year. We also had ThisOneNerd, ArgoniteS7 (a community member), and Surajrocks99 join 2 years ago. On August 18, 2021, I released the first Telugu quiz on JetPunk, on the districts of Andhra Pradesh with a map. Jiaozira had made a quiz like this in English, but I used my own map to be safe and shared it with him. After a few days, our friend Aficionado commented "Is this the first Telugu quiz on JetPunk? Unfortunately, I got nothing as I couldn't read or write this beautiful language.". In response to this, I first mentioned that I wanted to start a Telugu community and also mentioned my upcoming Telugu blog. The goal was to post it for Telugu Day on August 29 but I of course procrastinated and made a more detailed blog released in October. Before this, I made a few more quizzes, including Countries of the World in Telugu, which I hoped new Telugu users might find, which indeed would happen. As for the Telugu blog, at the end of it I included a bit in Telugu similarly hoping for the small chance of finding a few other Telugu JetPunkers. The blog got many comments which I was very happy about, but none Telugu.

On January 16, 2022, the user SkittlesDude (now ThisOneNerd) posted a blog called "Hey.". In this he talked about returning to JetPunk and becoming a speedcuber. I was happy to talk to him about this, but then I realized he was probably Telugu as he had visited Andhra Pradesh, and he indeed was, though he didn't speak Telugu. I invited him to a Telugu learning group although he never talked there. He also commented on the Telugu blog, and I was excited to see more Telugu people here. I wouldn't have to wait long for another motivating encounter, this time with carlonian, who commented in Telugu. He had commented on Aficionado's Andhra Pradesh state quiz, where Aficionado directed him to my Telugu creations (thanks afc). I replied, again mentioning I was happy to see more Telugu people finding the blog, but nothing more.

For a while after this there were no advancements to this community, but I felt like making Telugu quizzes in November, actually after reading youtubeplayer's interview where he talked about the Polish community.

In November or December, we also had the arrival of a very active Telugu user, Neodymium. I'll let him explain how he joined:

I started the Telugu community with Thread when I came across the Translated COTW page. Naturally I scrolled down to Telugu, a bit surprised that there even was a COTW for it. And the rest, as they say, is history. I ended up finding Thread’s blog on Telugu as well. Thread invited me to a JP group to avoid the long comment chain I ended up making on the blog page. I would check to see if he replied so much that if you put the word “Italian” into my search bar (as in the Italian of the East) it will come up.

And thus, the Telugu community started.

When we started the group this January, I immediately said we can invite ThisOneNerd and carlonian as they were the other Telugu users I had talked to. They joined soon but haven't said anything yet. Finally we got to work on the community together, and Neodymium quickly made many Telugu quizzes in these days. We discussed other things about Telugu, which was very fun, and made plans for the community. I also invited ArgoniteS7, though he didn't participate in the group much, and suggested making a Discord server, which even Neodymium originally did. But we still just sticked to the group at that point. The next important thing to happen was connecting with another now crucial community member, AntiMatter8192. I was pretty sure I saw he was Telugu somewhere, but there was one important comment that would remind me to invite him. On Stewart's 2022 end of the year blog about the top quizmakers in different languages, I commented "Great blog! #Telugu2023 lol", to which AntiMatter replied "Looking forward to this". So I finally decided to send him a comment telling him about the community in February. He joined and immediately showed interest in the community, so it was clear he would be an important member. Soon he became the 3rd one to suggest a Discord server, which I also thought would be good by then. So one day, after a nice discussion about Telugu letters, AntiMatter created the Telugu JetPunk Discord. With this, we can move on to some other sections to explore the current community.

The current community uses both a JetPunk group and a Discord server, but the latter much more. The group has only Telugu JetPunkers but the Discord server has welcomed some non-Telugu ambassadors who support the community. The Telugu JetPunkers who are in our community are ThisOneNerd and carlonian, who're only in the group, QueenOfAwe15, who is only in the server, and ArgoniteS7, TheNatureThread (me), Neodymium, and AntiMatter8192. The other JetPunkers who've been invited to the community are Racecarfreak, anirudhreddy, and Surajrocks99, though they all seem to be inactive. Looking at the community we do have, the current focus is quizzing, though the Telugu version of this blog will be the first Telugu blog, and AntiMatter8192 plans to make them too. As goals and projects, we're working on revising the Countries of the World quiz right now which will allow us to make many more quizzes soon, but I'll elaborate on that soon. Our personal goals will be in our introductions.

By Neodymium

The JetPunk discord server is a newer invention of the Telugu community that is the main medium of correspondence. It was created to replace unnecessarily complex communication on the JetPunk Group. Armed with 30+ channels (much to the chagrin of baptistegorce) and lots of helpful emojis like [meme man saying "telegoo"] and [Gigachad in front of Indian flag] this server has it all! If you are interested, come visit!

Finally before going to our introductions, let's look back through some statistics of what we've achieved so far. Let's start with a chart of Telugu quizzes as of March 18.

The chart is in Telugu, but it should be easy to understand, it just shows the number of quizzes over time. As you can see, only 3 users have made Telugu quizzes, with me and Neo having an equal number while Anti has made just 1.  Let's look at some particular Telugu or Telugu-related creations and what we achieved with them.

Hopefully by next year there'll be many more achievements to see. Finally, here are some statistics about the most active users. The most active on the group is Neodymium, followed by me and AntiMatter8192, while on the server it is me, followed by AntiMatter8192 and ArgoniteS7.

There are 4 notable users in the Telugu JetPunk community; AntiMatter8192, Neodymium, ArgoniteS7, and myself (TheNatureThread). Here are our introductions:

Hello, I am AntiMatter. I've been a JetPunk member since 2019, but I've been playing COTW for much longer. I've mostly played quizzes here, but I've gotten interested in blogs and making quizzes recently. Hopefully, I can do that more now. I like the JetPunk Telugu community because it's nice to meet people who learn and speak my language. Telugu has an interesting script and novel concepts worth learning about and that could help me relate to where I'm from a bit more, since I haven't lived in the Telugu States for very long and don't know much about the area. It's nice to have people that share similar interests to me and we can all learn a bit more from each other. In the next year, I hope to hone my quiz-making and blog-writing abilities further. I have a few interesting ideas that are worth making here on JetPunk and hopefully I can get better over time.

It's nice to have an experienced person with us (TheNatureThread), who is both good at making quizzes, maps, and blogs, as well as having a lot of knowledge about the Telugu language, culture, and history. He has already taught me a lot and I am certain I will learn more from him in the future.

Hello! I’m Neodymium and I’m a relatively new JetPunker. I've been a member since November-December and I avidly played JetPunk for a couple months before that without an account. I somewhat co-started the Telugu movement on JetPunk. Hopefully you’ve seen me around! I plan to….

-Make a blog about JetPunk improvements and Telugu Literature once I gain the 6 month requirement

-Make 1000 quizzes (starting to look a bit un realistic, but I set that personal goal back when I was making a lot more quizzes)

-Make more Telugu Quizzes

-Get 10000 takes (the only one outside of my control, and something you can help with :)

A bit more about me:

-I live in the states

-Speak Telugu ok

-Illiterate in Telugu (trying to change that)

Thanks for your time!

Hi guys! It's me, who's been writing almost the whole time. I've been a JetPunker since 2016 and on this account since 2017. In 2021 when I returned to JetPunk and started blogging, I first got the idea of a Telugu community, but I don't remember from where. I made stuff like Telugu COTW and the Telugu blog hoping to increase knowledge about Telugu here and also hoped Telugu users would find them, but that was not my main goal until late 2022 when I didn't really have a focus on JetPunk. I decided to make more Telugu quizzes again, and it was great that Neodymium also joined at this point, finally making a dedicated Telugu community.

Looking back, my favorite Telugu-related creation so far was the Telugu blog, but I have many more I look forward to, so here are my plans for the Telugu community in the next year. In blogs, I'm planning to make many Telugu blogs and get back to blogging through this, with maybe some other languages on the way. There are many untouched ideas when it comes to Telugu culture, so my goal is to write at least 10 Telugu blogs. For quizzes, I'll set the goal of making one especially large Telugu-related SVG and one especially creative one, and many minor ones, all for Telugu quizzes of course. I also have a pretty big Telugu series idea I plan to make, and I'll probably make some others. We're all working on COTW names together so I hope to find more names to finish soon and  so once it is done we'll be able to translate a lot more quizzes for the rest of the year. I can read and write Telugu and speak it, but I don't read much so my advanced vocabulary isn't that great, which is unfortunately common with speakers of Indian languages. I hope while making quizzes and blogs in the next year I'll improve my skills.

As for the Telugu community, I'm quite satisfied with the size now, and the great interest and determination of all the members makes it exciting already, so I won't set any goals about growing the community. On that note, I'll finish off by saying I'm happy to have such a great community for Telugu finally, and that there are other Telugu users who are so dedicated to its rise on JetPunk.

Hello, I’m argonite. I’ve been a JetPunk member since 2021 but I’m not that active on JetPunk though I want to start using it more. I’m pretty active on the Discord server since it’s easier to check for me. I can speak and understand Telugu well but can’t read or write. My goal is to get to level 40 by the end of the year. I might start blogging after I get to level 40 since I have a few ideas but I don’t know for sure yet since I’m not that active (hopefully that will change lol). I like taking quizzes here but I think there’s a lack of sports quizzes and other non-geography quizzes so if I ever start making quizzes it’ll probably be about sports or something else. I’m here to support Telugu on JetPunk though. Happy Ugadi! Thank you!

By AntiMatter8192

The future of Telugu JetPunk looks very bright. Despite the small number of people there, we have an extremely active server, 2x more than even the French one this week. Most members here have plans to create quizzes and blogs relating to Telugu, and I myself will probably have a blog by next month. The most important thing coming up in the future will likely be the revision of the Telugu Countries of the World quiz to include more accurate names, which will allow us to translate a ton of English quizzes to Telugu. We’ll also want to focus on growing the community since that will allow us to create more quizzes and get new ideas on things to do on JetPunk. If you're interested in the community, you can comment below with your Discord name to join our Discord server! Many of us aren't fluent so don't worry about that.

In conclusion, we hope this blog has explained the Telugu JetPunk community, our history, present, and future. As AntiMatter said, it seems that there is a great future ahead, and no matter what happens, it'll always be a great achievement for us to have formed a community for Telugu here. Finally, ఉగాది శుభాకాంక్షలు (Happy Ugadi) and ధన్యవాదం (thank you) for reading!