Best community platform for alumni network?

Amit Tandon

Amit Tandon

@monster
Updated: Nov 23, 2025
Views: 686

Hey team, happy to be a part of Jatra community. We are looking to host a forum for our alumni network. We started with Slack and then switched to WhatsApp. But the problem is, our WhatsApp groups have no activity. Just 2-3 members post daily and most of the messages are spammy “good morning” greetings and forwards from other groups. Most of the members in the group are not happy. We tried sharing guidelines; but it didn’t help.

Someone suggested we look at an open forum or community platform instead of WhatsApp. I therefore began research and found out Jatra through reddit.

Some of the requirements -

  1. We don’t want the hassle of hosting the forum

  2. We want to share jobs on the community. Most of our alumni are looking to hire for their own businesses or their orgs.

  3. Should work on mobile

Frankly speaking, none of us know how to build a community. I hope to get some help here.

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  • Kaustubh Katdare

    Kaustubh Katdare

    @kaustubh-katdare • Nov 5, 2025

    Hey Amit - welcome to Jatra. Thank you for describing your community requirements. WhatsApp Communities can be difficult to grow beyond certain member count. However, it looks like your community has a different challenge.

    To answer your question, Jatra could be the best platform for alumni network. Following are some of the features you may find useful:

    1. Jatra is 100% fully-managed community platform.
    2. We take care of hosting, backup, security, feature development, technical support etc.
    3. We offer hands-on community building support.
    4. Jatra differs from its competition by focusing heavily on SEO and also offers multiple content types: discussions, articles, chats, quizzes, jobs and more - all natively supported.
    5. You can have an integrated job-board in your community.
    6. Jatra uses responsive layout - which adjusts automatically to viewer's screen.

    I request you to book a demo call where we'll understand your community challenges and chalk out a plan. If there are further queries, I'll be happy to help.

  • Monica Beckwith

    Monica Beckwith

    @moni • Nov 12, 2025

    WhatsApp and Telegram are spammy. Not recommended for any professional community. Jatra is great to host your alumni network. Also look at Circle - if you want video conferences.

  • Amit Tandon

    Amit Tandon

    @monster • Nov 23, 2025

    Thank you for your responses. Jatra is already a strong contender. I agree that Whatsapp is not a good choice.