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Steven Way
@stevenway • Feb 25, 2025

Feb 25, 2025

1.9K

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

1.6K

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

2.2K

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

1.7K

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

1.4K

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

1.7K

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

1.9K

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

1.4K

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

1.7K

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

1.7K

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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Amanda N
@9uiMsSB • Feb 11, 2025

Feb 11, 2025

1.8K

Is Jatra an alternative to Discourse community platform?

One of my colleagues recently suggested I check out Jatra as an alternative to Discourse for our online communities. I’ve been running two active communities on Discourse for over a...

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Paula Derrenger
@paulad • Sep 18, 2025

Sep 18, 2025

3.0K

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

1.2K

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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Angela Williams
@angela-williams • Dec 18, 2024

Dec 18, 2024

1.6K

How can I improve community management skills?

I wish to know what are the proven ways to improve community management skills. I am new to community management and learning new skills every day. Just read Kaustubh’s post...

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Thomas Browne
@RDgl4Jx • Dec 16, 2024

Dec 16, 2024

1.3K

Can you run a community on Slack?

I’d like to hear thoughts on running a community on Slack. We are looking to build a customer community and Slack seems to be a popular choice. We are looking...

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Paula Derrenger
@paulad • Dec 17, 2024

Dec 17, 2024

1.4K

Can Jatra be an alternative to Scenes community platform by Graphy?

Graphy’s Build on Scenes community software is being shut-down. They are no longer interested in hosting communities. I wish to know if Jatra can be an alternative to Graphy Scenes...

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Paula Derrenger
@paulad • Dec 4, 2024

Dec 4, 2024

1.6K

Temporary Vs Permanent Ban: How to Decide?

Question for experienced community professionals: How do you decide whether to permanently ban or temporarily ban a user from your community? So we have a few members in our community...

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Paula Derrenger
@paulad • Dec 4, 2024

Dec 4, 2024

1.3K

How can I block AI bots from scraping our content?

Am I the only one concerned about AI bots scraping our content to train themselves? It feels like the problem is already out of control.Our community is built on authentic,...

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Rahul Roy
@rahulroy • Dec 3, 2024

Dec 3, 2024

1.6K

What are the disadvantages of online communities?

I think it’s established that online communities are beneficial for brands and businesses. They can drive excellent growth and retain users. However, is there a negative side to the virtual...

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Paula Derrenger
@paulad • Dec 2, 2024

Dec 2, 2024

2.4K

What's the best platform for building an online community?

I’d like to know about the best platform out there to build an online community? Some of the popular choices I see are Facebook Groups (for interest based communities), LinkedIn...

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