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Kaustubh Katdare
@kaustubh • Jan 30, 2025

Jan 30, 2025

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Community Building is Easy - Dharmesh Shah

I came across this LinkedIn post from Dharmesh Shah: co-founder and CTO at Hubspot. Dharmesh says that most founders overthink how hard it is to start and build a community....

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Kaustubh Katdare
@kaustubh • Feb 13, 2025

Feb 13, 2025

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Sneak Peek At Upcoming Features on Jatra

ETA: January, 2025 last week.After several weeks of working behind the scenes, we are excited to start 2025 with a huge update to Jatra Community Platform.The settings section is getting...

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Paula Derrenger
@paulad • Feb 16, 2025

Feb 16, 2025

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Allow multiple cropping options 1:1, 4:3, 16:9 on featured image editor

It would be great if the featured image editor offered multiple cropping options. I’m trying to upload a square image, but it’s forcing me to crop it into a 16:9...

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Type

Improvement

Status

Released
Kaustubh Katdare
@kaustubh • Mar 26, 2025

Mar 26, 2025

2.5K

Self-Hosted Vs. Fully Managed Community Platform - What Should You Pick?

When starting a new community, you’ll have to choose between a self-hosted and a fully-managed community platform.In my career spanning 20 years as an entrepreneur and community builder, I’ve managed...

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Claire Marie
@4lDaIgo • Jan 1, 2025

Jan 1, 2025

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Building Training for Community Builders

Hi everyone!I've been working in community management and noticed a consistent challenge: the lack of practical, platform-specific training for new CMs, especially those working with Discord communities. After seeing many...

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Kaustubh Katdare
@kaustubh-katdare • Dec 28, 2024

Dec 28, 2024

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Reply count is not updated after deleting replies

Submitting this on behalf of our customer; so that we can keep track. Here are steps to reproduce:Find a thread with more than 1 repliesDelete one reply and observeThe reply...

3 Votes

Type

Bug

Status

Reviewing
Angela Williams
@angela-williams • Dec 18, 2024

Dec 18, 2024

1.5K

How can I improve community management skills?

I wish to know what are the proven ways to improve community management skills. I am new to community management and learning new skills every day. Just read Kaustubh’s post...

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Paula Derrenger
@paulad • Dec 4, 2024

Dec 4, 2024

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Temporary Vs Permanent Ban: How to Decide?

Question for experienced community professionals: How do you decide whether to permanently ban or temporarily ban a user from your community? So we have a few members in our community...

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Kaustubh Katdare
@kaustubh • Apr 11, 2025

Apr 11, 2025

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Closed Vs. Open Community: Let's Settle the Debate

There are two main types of communities: Open and Closed. This article will help you decide whether your community should be open (public) or closed (private).I am a strong advocate...

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Changelog: Version: 1.1.3

New Feature: Receive Email Notification When A User Replies

Published: Nov 18, 2024

New Feature Bugfix Improvements

I am happy to announce a small, yet significant feature available immediately for all Jatra communities: Email notification when your post receives a replyOverall speed improvements and cosmetic bug fixesEmail...

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Changelog: Version: 1.1.2

New Feature: Custom Links

Published: Nov 4, 2024

New Feature

At Jatra, we are committed to quickly launching features that our customers love. A few days ago, our customers requested for an ability to add custom links to the most...

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Angela Williams
@angela-williams • Nov 22, 2024

Nov 22, 2024

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What is the definition of a community?

I recently started as a community manager at a game development company. In a casual chat with a colleague, we touched on an interesting question: What is a community, really?A...

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Kaustubh Katdare
@kaustubh • Dec 17, 2024

Dec 17, 2024

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Slack Or Discord - The Uneasy Choice You'll Make

Slack and Discord are the two top team collaboration platforms, popular for two entirely different use-cases. Slack is popular among startups for communication among the team members and Discord is...

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Aaron Jal
@qjLkMhs • Nov 2, 2024

Nov 2, 2024

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What are the top skills required for community building?

I recently graduated with a degree in marketing, and during my final year, I attended a session at my University that introduced me to the world of community building.That session...

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Angela Williams
@angela-williams • May 25, 2025

May 25, 2025

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How to convince my management to invest in building branded community?

Does anyone have tips on how to convince my management to invest in building a branded community? I have 2 years of community building experience at my previous organisation and...

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Aaron Jal
@qjLkMhs • Oct 27, 2024

Oct 27, 2024

1.1K

Better YouTube Community Alternative?

Looking for better YouTube community alternative. One of my subscribers suggested that I check out Jatra - and I am liking it. I wish to know if Jatra is an...

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Changelog: Version: 3.2.9

Speed Improvements to '@mention' suggestions

Published: Mar 12, 2026

bugfix performance improvement

We've released a small update the to Jatra's member search and suggestions engine that offers instant member suggestions especially on large communities (100,000+ users) hosted by Jatra. Member suggestion is...

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Changelog: Version: 3.2.1

Jatra 3.2.1 :: Scheduling Expands to More Post Types

Published: Mar 2, 2026

improvement ui

You can now schedule Discussions and Changelog posts in Jatra. The scheduling flow is consistent across supported post types, so once you learn it once, it feels the same everywhere....

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Ambarish Ganesh
@ambarish • Mar 14, 2026

Mar 14, 2026

111

Separate Notification Feed for DMs and Other Notifications

Hi, I see notifications shows me both my DMs and like/comments in the same window. Currently it's a bit confusing. Any plan to separate the two?

3 Votes

Type

General

Status

Archived
Kaustubh Katdare
@kaustubh-katdare • Feb 25, 2026

Feb 25, 2026

164

Analytics for Community Growth - The Good, Bad and the Ugly

Jatra's latest upgrade has a lot of goodies packed in. I'll write about all the SEO improvements via a separate post. I observed something that's bothering me for a while...

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