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Changelog: Version: 3.6.1

Jatra Moderation System Improvements - Easy User Bans

Kaustubh Katdare Admin
@kaustubh-katdare

Published: Jul 15, 2026

release bugfix improvement moderation

We have released a small feature that improves Jatra's moderation system. Admins can now ban individual users or a group of users from the admin panel. We have been struggling...

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Kaustubh Katdare Admin
@kaustubh-katdare • Jul 15, 2026

Jul 15, 2026
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Does the order of URLs in an XML Sitemap Matter?

Yesterday, while talking to a potential customer of Jatra, we talked about Jatra's advanced SEO (and AEO) capabilities. . During the discussion, the client asked if the order of URLs...

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Kaustubh Katdare
@kaustubh • Jul 15, 2026

Jul 15, 2026
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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 decades, I switched platforms multiple times:phpBB → vBulletin → xenForo → custom solution → Jatra.Along...

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Kaustubh Katdare
@kaustubh • Aug 3, 2026

Aug 3, 2026
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User Feedback Tool - Integrated Within the Community

I am excited to announce the latest addition to the Jatra’s ever-growing feature set: A user-feedback collection tool integrated within your Jatra-powered community. What does it help you do? Feedback...

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Kaustubh Katdare Admin
@kaustubh-katdare • Jul 10, 2026

Jul 10, 2026
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Best Community Platforms in 2026 - According to Reddit

According to Reddit, the best community platforms in 2026 to host a community are: Jatra Community Platform: Best overall. Highlights are advance SEO, AEO and native multi-content support. Jatra team...

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Monica Beckwith
@moni • Jul 31, 2026

Jul 31, 2026
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Boss asked me to build a Slack community. I have no idea.

Hi everyone! So…I recently joined a startup here in Berlin as a social media manager. I’m good with content creation, running campaigns and keeping our socials active. But my boss...

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Kaustubh Katdare Admin
@kaustubh-katdare • Jul 6, 2026

Jul 6, 2026
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What is a White Label Community Platform? Meaning, Benefits and How it Works

Building a community platform is a complex process. It requires a lot of maintenance, updates and monitoring. This is why businesses do not build their own community platform. They run their customer communities on a platform someone else built. However, they wrap it with their...

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Kaustubh Katdare Admin
@kaustubh-katdare • Jun 30, 2026

Jun 30, 2026
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How to Build a SaaS Community in 2026

Building a community for your SaaS is the highest RoI growth hack you'll ever implement. It's like building a system that acquires new users for you on autopilot and also engages them. A properly managed community even turns your customers into brand evangelists.Too good to...

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Kaustubh Katdare
@kaustubh • Jun 30, 2026

Jun 30, 2026
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How to Build a SaaS Community Effortlessly

In this guide, I’ll teach you how to build a successful SaaS community effortlessly. I’d like you to follow the playbook I’ve built over the last 18 years of my experience as a founder and community-builder.We’ll leverage SEO, organic growth-hacking techniques and content techniques to...

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Kaustubh Katdare Admin
@kaustubh-katdare • Aug 4, 2026

Aug 4, 2026
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Custom Meta Descriptions Will Be Deprecated Through Upcoming Updates

We've decided to deprecate the custom meta descriptions through upcoming updates to Jatra. Over the past few years, we've seen that the custom meta descriptions are not valued by Google...

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Kaustubh Katdare Admin
@kaustubh-katdare • Jun 25, 2026

Jun 25, 2026
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Why Product Feedback, Changelog, and Roadmap Should Live Inside Your Community

Where Should Product Feedback Live? Inside Your Community, Not a Separate Tool I've operated in the SaaS world for almost a decade. There was a time when SaaS companies kept three separate sections on their website: Product feedback: a widget or a form for customers...

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Kaustubh Katdare
@kaustubh • Jun 24, 2026

Jun 24, 2026
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What are some of the alternatives to XenForo?

XenForo is a dominant player in the world of community platforms. I’d like to know about the latest forum and community platforms in the market that are alternative to XenForo?...

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Scott Norman
@cool-dog • Jun 24, 2026

Jun 24, 2026
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Which Community Platform is the Best for Small Teams?

I represent a small software team based in Estonia. We build custom software for ecommerce brands, and several of our clients sell products that are quite popular across Central Europe....

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Kaustubh Katdare Admin
@kaustubh-katdare • Jun 24, 2026

Jun 24, 2026
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What Is a Reliable Community Engagement Platform? (Know Before You Commit)

A reliable community engagement platform is software that hosts your member discussions and content with three guarantees: your data stays yours and you can export it anytime, your content remains accessible for years (including to search engines), and the vendor's business doesn't depend on locking...

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Kaustubh Katdare Admin
@kaustubh-katdare • Jun 16, 2026

Jun 16, 2026
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Jatra Update : June 2026

Dear Jatra family, it's been a while since we posted an update on what's happening behind the scenes at Jatra. New Clients: May 2026 kept us busy as a big...

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Changelog: Version: 3.6.0

New Feature :: "Quick Posts" - New Post Type for Quick Posting

Kaustubh Katdare Admin
@kaustubh-katdare

Published: Jun 2, 2026

release improvements seo performance

We are excited to announce the launch of new "post" post-type. This new post-type allows quick posting in the community; without needing the 'title' or the 'body'. Simply type your...

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Kaustubh Katdare Admin
@kaustubh-katdare • May 19, 2026

May 19, 2026
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Pagination and Canonical URLs in Communities and Forums - What's the Right Way?

Pagination is an important aspect of forums and community platforms. While building Jatra, one of the key decisions I had to make was to get the canonical URLs for the...

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Kaustubh Katdare Admin
@kaustubh-katdare • May 14, 2026

May 14, 2026
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Beta Testing : Web Push Notifications + Jatra Progressive Web App

At Jatra, we are testing two upcoming features - Web Push Notifications and Progressive Web App. Web Push Notifications: We've tried to make a very user-friendly UI. A notification card...

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Kaustubh Katdare Admin
@kaustubh-katdare • May 13, 2026

May 13, 2026
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How to Build and Grow a WhatsApp Community : Beginner to Advanced

WhatsApp has about 3 billion monthly active users. It’s the default mode of online communication in countries like India, Brazil, Philippines and UAE. In this step-by-step guide, you will learn how to use WhatsApp to build your community. You will also learn some of the...

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Kaustubh Katdare Admin
@kaustubh-katdare • May 13, 2026

May 13, 2026
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How to Get Forum Content Indexed and Ranked Faster

I built CrazyEngineers community from 0 -> 400,000+ members organically. Between 2011 - 2017, it was one of the largest engineering forums on the Internet. All our growth was purely organic. We never spent anything on marketing. This guide is about getting your forum content...

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