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Kaustubh Katdare
@kaustubh • Mar 25, 2025

Mar 25, 2025
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Why is Community Building Important for Startups in 2025?

Howdy Jatra Community Members! 👋 Thought I’d get your views on Why community building is important for startups. Having a thriving community for your business is no longer a ‘nice...

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Paula Derrenger
@paulad • Mar 23, 2025

Mar 23, 2025
1.6K

What are the best ways to monetize community?

I’m looking for ways to monetize the community beyond subscriptions. We charge an annual fee for access to exclusive, member-only channels. Are there other simple, overlooked ways to generate revenue...

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Alex Xu
@alex • Mar 20, 2025

Mar 20, 2025
1.9K

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 • Mar 19, 2025

Mar 19, 2025
2.1K

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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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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Rohit Kapoor
@rohit • Feb 21, 2026

Feb 21, 2026
14.1K

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 • Mar 1, 2025

Mar 1, 2025
1.8K

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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Kaustubh Katdare
@kaustubh • Feb 25, 2025

Feb 25, 2025
1.8K

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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Steven Way
@stevenway • Feb 25, 2025

Feb 25, 2025
2.0K

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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Steve Miller
@1SciMAi • Feb 15, 2025

Feb 15, 2025
1.7K

As a community manager, do you quickly reply to all new questions?

Sorry for multiple posting. I wish to know if it’s a good strategy to quickly reply to the new questions posted by users or wait for the other members to...

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Paula Derrenger
@paulad • Feb 15, 2025

Feb 15, 2025
2.3K

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
1.8K

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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Kaustubh Katdare
@kaustubh • Jan 30, 2025

Jan 30, 2025
1.5K

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 • Jan 17, 2025

Jan 17, 2025
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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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Sunday Daniel
@txQrcrh • Feb 25, 2025

Feb 25, 2025
2.0K

How to create my own community with Jatra platform

Hello sir,How to create community in jatra.There is any pricing fee or its free,?And how to create to connect with my domain?please guide me

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Rahul Roy
@rahulroy • Feb 25, 2025

Feb 25, 2025
1.5K

Is Jatra an Alternative to XenForo?

I’m looking for an alternative to XenForo. We are looking to build a customer community for our D2C brand. We don’t have any specific requirements in mind, but the platform...

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Claire Marie
@4lDaIgo • Jan 1, 2025

Jan 1, 2025
1.8K

Building Training for Community Builders

Hi everyone!I've been working in community management and noticed a consistent challenge: the lack of practical, platform-specific training for new CMs, especially those working with Discord communities. After seeing many...

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Amanda N
@9uiMsSB • Jan 1, 2025

Jan 1, 2025
1.8K

What does Community Engagement Manager do?

Hey everyone! I'm Amanda, a recent communications graduate from the University of Texas at Austin. I'm excited to explore career opportunities that allow me to connect with people and make...

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Paula Derrenger
@paulad • Sep 18, 2025

Sep 18, 2025
3.5K

Flarum or XenForo - Which Community Platform is Better?

If you were to start a new community today and were presented with two options for community platform: Flarum and XenForo; which one would you pick, and why?I am not...

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Angela Williams
@angela-williams • Dec 19, 2024

Dec 19, 2024
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Why is community building important?

Why do you think community building is important? How do you justify investing time and efforts into building an online community? I am looking for diverse viewpoints.

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