Edited: May 17, 2022
To drum up some interest and figure out what the modding community would think about Quilt, one of the founding members posts a Pastebin "leak" on a drama server. The document includes some information about the governance and moderation policy of a new project named "Fabrique", a false name used to avoid exposing Quilt's projects before they were ready to be made public.
The Quilt Community Discord server is officially made public, with proper invites being created and handed out. Almost 350 users join the server on this first day, which is emblematic of people's interest in the project and its community.
On the same day, the Quilt Toolchain Discord server is set up and opened to the public. This server was designed for project-relevant development discussions, as a place for people to work together on Quilt and its projects, and for everyone else to gain a window into Quilt's development processes.
On the Community server, a game of skribbl.io was played to celebrate the server's opening to the public. During this game, a player was tasked with drawing a pumpkin, and many of the players guessed "pineapple". This drawing quickly became a community favourite, and Pineapple was born – Quilt's first community mascot.
Quilt officially entered its first beta today, attracting an influx of new users and an amazing amount of support and positive feedback. By the end of the day, Quilt was happily loading both Quilt and Fabric mods, and had uploaded QSL to Modrinth.