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Kaustubh Katdare Admin@kaustubh-katdare • Jul 6, 2026Jul 6, 2026217Building 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... -
Kaustubh Katdare Admin@kaustubh-katdare • Jun 30, 2026Jun 30, 2026730How 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... -
@kaustubh • Jun 30, 2026Jun 30, 20262.4KHow 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... -
Kaustubh Katdare Admin@kaustubh-katdare • Aug 4, 2026Aug 4, 2026912Custom 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... -
Kaustubh Katdare Admin@kaustubh-katdare • Jun 25, 2026Jun 25, 2026331Why 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... -
@kaustubh • Jun 24, 2026Jun 24, 20265.2KWhat 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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@cool-dog • Jun 24, 2026Jun 24, 2026430
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, 2026Jun 24, 2026277What 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... -
Kaustubh Katdare Admin@kaustubh-katdare • Jun 16, 2026Jun 16, 2026350Jatra 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... -
Changelog: Version: 3.6.0Jun 2, 2026
Kaustubh Katdare Admin@kaustubh-katdareWe 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... -
Kaustubh Katdare Admin@kaustubh-katdare • May 19, 2026May 19, 2026523Pagination 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, 2026May 14, 2026339Beta 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... -
Kaustubh Katdare Admin@kaustubh-katdare • May 13, 2026May 13, 20264.2KHow 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... -
Kaustubh Katdare Admin@kaustubh-katdare • May 13, 2026May 13, 2026415How 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... -
Kaustubh Katdare Admin@kaustubh-katdare • May 13, 2026May 13, 20261.7KThe Best Forum Software for SEO : Jatra Is #1
->Update: May, 2026: We have published a detailed comparison on various forum software ranked on their SEO/AEO capabilities: Best Forum Software for SEO in 2026 - Tested and Compared An organic community forum is built on the strong foundation of Search Engine Optimization (SEO). Forums... -
Changelog: Version: 3.5.0May 13, 2026
Kaustubh Katdare Admin@kaustubh-katdareI am excited to introduce a new 'post-type' in Jatra's growing list of natively supported post-types: Meme This post-type was developed specially for one of the communities on Jatra -... -
Kaustubh Katdare Admin@kaustubh-katdare • May 12, 2026May 12, 2026413How to Build a Community on WhatsApp — and Watch It Fail
Over the past eight years, I have built 12 communities on WhatsApp. Some peaked at 50 members and others pushed past 800. We have communities for PHP Developers, Growth Marketers and even a local guitar enthusiasts. Ironically, the most active group is also the smallest... -
@florian • May 22, 2026May 22, 2026527Xenforo -> Jatra Community Migration Without Losing Traffic
We are evaluating community platforms and forum tools to migrate our Xenforo powered community. The main concern is to move out of XF without losing our traffic. So far, we...
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Sara VIP@butterfly-sara • May 9, 2026May 9, 2026416How important are images for good SEO in community?
I've been learning SEO for the past few days, and there's one question that's been bothering me - I can't seem to find a clear answer anywhere. How important are...
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Changelog: Version: 3.4.2May 3, 2026
Kaustubh Katdare Admin@kaustubh-katdareEvery great community runs on shared knowledge. The tutorial that saves someone a weekend. The spreadsheet template that becomes the team standard. The video that finally makes a concept click....