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Changelog: Version: 2.2.0

New: Community SEO, Layout Optimization and Performance Improvements

Published: Mar 17, 2025

new feature improvement bugfix

I’m excited to release the version 2.2.0 - our major update to Jatra in 2025. This release is paced with amazing features, massive SEO improvements and of course, performance improvements.Let’s...

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Kaustubh Katdare
@kaustubh • Apr 2, 2025

Apr 2, 2025

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Medial App (Shark Tank India) : Social Network

Medial App pitched on Shark Tank India. It’s a cool social network that takes on X and goes beyond by offering features like Startup Showcase (India’s Product Hunt) and other...

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Sara
@butterfly-sara • Jun 3, 2025

Jun 3, 2025

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What is the future of online communities?

Hey everyone! I’ve been thinking a lot about how online communities are evolving and where they might be headed. I joined this community after reading Are Online Forums Dead? by...

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Kaustubh Katdare
@kaustubh • Mar 25, 2025

Mar 25, 2025

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[Steps] Build Organic Online Community for Brand

Most entrepreneurs, markets and community builders believe that their social media following is their “brand community”. The truth is social media is just a broadcast channel for most brands to...

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Rohit Kapoor
@rohit • Feb 21, 2026

Feb 21, 2026

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Looking for an Alternative to Vanilla Forums [Higher Logic Killed It]

Higher Logic, the company that owned Vanilla Forums has informed that they are no longer maintaining the open source version of Vanilla Forums. We have been looking for an alternative...

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Kaustubh Katdare
@kaustubh • Mar 7, 2025

Mar 7, 2025

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Pareto's Principle Applies to Community Building

Vilfredo Pareto, an Italian economist, observed that 80% of Italy’s land was owned by 20% of the population.This led to Pareto’s Principle: 80% of results come from 20% of efforts....

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Changelog: Version: 2.1.3

New Confetti Effect - Upon Clicking 'Like' Button

Published: Mar 5, 2025

improvement

Eliminated a CSS plugin and directly injected all the CSS required to produce a fantastic “confetti” effect. I don’t want to add any pictures or photos; but want you to...

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Kaustubh Katdare
@kaustubh • Apr 11, 2025

Apr 11, 2025

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Community Manager Job Description Templates [Junior / Mid / Senior]

Writing job description for the role of community manager is a challenging task. I have created templates for junior, mid and senior level community manager roles that you can copy...

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Kaustubh Katdare
@kaustubh • Apr 20, 2025

Apr 20, 2025

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SEO for Online Communities: Ultimate Guide to Organic Growth

I am a big fan of open communities - the ones that expose content to search engines and users without requiring a login.When you nail SEO - your online community...

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Changelog: Version: 2.1.2

Minor Update: Members List Available Inside Settings

Published: Feb 24, 2025

new feature

A small quality of life upgrade has just been released on Jatra. The admins and the owners of the Jatra powered communities can now access their members list from within...

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Kaustubh Katdare
@kaustubh • Feb 25, 2025

Feb 25, 2025

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Hosting community on Reddit - Pros and Cons

I recently read a post on LinkedIn that EVGA has moved its official forums over to Reddit. It’s a surprising move. I then studied the EVGA forums and found that...

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Kaustubh Katdare
@kaustubh • Mar 19, 2025

Mar 19, 2025

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Should you block community access to LLMs and AI ChatBots?

Is anyone concerned about the chatbots and LLMs like ChatGPT and Perplexity crawling your content, training their models and then ultimately driving the traffic away from you? It’s a different...

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Steven Way
@stevenway • Feb 25, 2025

Feb 25, 2025

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Suggest a cheaper Slack alternative for our community

We're considering moving our community off of Slack. We are a a small company from Ontario. Slack seemed like the perfect platform to start our customer community.We currently have over...

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Kaustubh Katdare
@kaustubh • Feb 15, 2025

Feb 15, 2025

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Why Build an Online Community: Advantages and Disadvantages

What excites me about building the Jatra Community Platform is the possibilities it unlocks for businesses. Most of the entrepreneurs are aware of only the ‘user-engagement’ aspect and have not...

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Kaustubh Katdare
@kaustubh • Jul 31, 2025

Jul 31, 2025

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February 2025 Update: Job Board Integrated with Community and More

It’s the middle of February and I’ve an update for all our customers. At Jatra, we were incredibly busy preparing for an an interesting post-type: Job. Jatra will soon let...

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Paula Derrenger
@paulad • Mar 16, 2025

Mar 16, 2025

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How did you get your first 100 members for your community?

Growing a community from zero to 100 members is one of the hardest, yet most important milestones. All the communities I helped grow had to struggle to get its first...

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Kaustubh Katdare
@kaustubh • Feb 12, 2025

Feb 12, 2025

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Jatra - A Powerful Discourse Alternative for Communities

It’s been 20 years since I started managing online communities.Back in 2005, I created my first community on phpBB - a popular platform at the time. Over the next two...

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Paula Derrenger
@paulad • Mar 25, 2025

Mar 25, 2025

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Jatra's Community Channel Management Feature is Superb!

Huge kudos to the Jatra team for creating such an intuitive interface for channel management. It’s incredibly simple and easy to navigate, which is a breath of fresh air. Platforms...

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Changelog: Version: 2.1.0

New Feature: Automatic Open Graph Image Previews for Jatra Powered Communities

Published: Jan 30, 2025

new feature

I’m excited to announce a new feature that we ourselves wanted - Automatic Open Graph image generation for your content without explicitly mentioned images. For example, the ‘Discussions’ do not...

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Paula Derrenger
@paulad • Feb 15, 2025

Feb 15, 2025

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How would you revive a dead community?

Keeping a community lively is proper tough. In one of the communities I run, barely 1% of the members actually get involved. No one’s posting, and replies are rare -...

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