DHd 2018 provides the ideal venue to expose <hi xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" rend="italic">Digital Medievalist</hi> to a large German-speaking community of scholars. The <hi xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" rend="italic">Digital Medievalist</hi> website averages 2,760 views per day from Germany alone; the <hi xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" rend="italic">Digital Medievalist</hi> conference representatives are eager to speak to practitioners in Germany to better understand how <hi xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" rend="italic">Digital Medievalist</hi> is meeting their needs and how it can improve. Additionally, we think that <hi xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" rend="italic">Digital Medievalist</hi> can still serve as an example for community building. Its history and current state demonstrates how the interest in digital methods intersects with the use of digital communication tools, and is thus maybe an archetypical example of Digital Humanities.