The Ruby on Rails community struck me as different back in the day in how fun it was.
It's hard to explain but coming from a Java background the community seemed to be full of interesting and engaging characters. Some people don't really appreciate that and prefer things to be very dry but I loved it.
I'd like to shout out to Ryan Bates, Geoffrey Grosenbach, Zed Shaw, _why, Jason Seifer, Gregg Pollack, Sandi Metz, Ezra Zygmuntowicz, Yehuda Katz, Dr Nic, Tenderlove and a whole heap more.
Thanks everyone, you've made it a very entertaining journey.