Discussions

@butterfly-sara • 3mos

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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Rohit Kapoor

@rohit • 6mos

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 • 5mos

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 • 6mos

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 • 5mos

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

@k2aOIG9 • 6mos

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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Thomas Browne

@RDgl4Jx • 5mos

Community Vs. Forums - Difference and Similarities

I’d like to seek opinions from fellow community managers about the differences and similarities between a community and a forum.In the earlier days, ‘forums’ was the most common term for...

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Paula Derrenger

@paulad • 6mos

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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Paula Derrenger

@paulad • 7mos

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 • 7mos

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 Novak

@qBiJ4Do • 3mos

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 Novak

@qBiJ4Do • 5mos

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 • 6mos

What is the best way to dissolve a community?

This question was asked in a webinar I attended about building community for startups. Say you’ve built a community and now want to dissolve it; what is the best way...

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Alex Novak

@qBiJ4Do • 7mos

How to turn community members into brand ambassadors?

I am building a customer community for a D2C brand I work with. We have an established community with about 500 monthly active users. The community is active and users...

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Kaustubh Katdare

@kaustubh • 7mos

How to get engagement on WhatsApp community?

I recently had a discussion with a promising founder who is looking to build a community. Their startup has potential and has steadily gaining users. They are building a community...

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