Jatra Community

Kaustubh Katdare
@kaustubh • Mar 18, 2026

Mar 18, 2026

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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 • Feb 25, 2026

Feb 25, 2026

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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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Kaustubh Katdare
@kaustubh • Jan 30, 2025

Jan 30, 2025

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January, 2025 : Community Platform Update

After several weeks of silence, I thought I’d give our fellow Jatra family members an update on what’s happening behind the scenes. We spent past 3 months building the ‘Channels’...

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Kaustubh Katdare
@kaustubh • Apr 17, 2025

Apr 17, 2025

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WhatsApp Community Growth and Engagement Guide

In this guide, you will learn the proven techniques to grow your WhatsApp community and boost engagement. As someone who has been building online communities for over 20 years; I...

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Changelog: Version: 2.0.0

Public, Private and Restricted Channels on Jatra

Published: Jan 29, 2025

new feature bugfix improvement

We are excited to announce a major upgrade to Jatra Community Platform. Following is the overview of what’s new, and available immediately to all Jatra consumers.You can now create 4...

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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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Alex Xu
@alex • May 24, 2025

May 24, 2025

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What's the Best PHP Forum Software In Your Opinion?

If you were to start a new forum for your online business - which PHP forum software would you choose and why?You may ask - why PHP and not Ruby...

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Alex Xu
@alex • Mar 20, 2025

Mar 20, 2025

1.8K

Is Jatra an Alternative to Upvoty?

Hi! I saw someone on Reddit mention that Jatra could be a good alternative to Upvoty. I’m a bit confused, though—is Jatra a community platform, or is it more of...

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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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