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Kaustubh Katdare
@kaustubh • Apr 11, 2025

Apr 11, 2025

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The Ultimate Guide to Community Engagement and Retention in 2025

In this guide, you will learn some of the most advanced and time-tested strategies and activities to boost community engagement and retention. The world of communities has evolved a lot...

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Sara
@butterfly-sara • Apr 2, 2025

Apr 2, 2025

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What's the best way to onboard new members into a community?

Can someone share what’s the best way to onboard new members into a community so that they feel welcomed, know what to do next and actually stick around? We are...

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Sia Kate
@CcjtSrS • Apr 2, 2025

Apr 2, 2025

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How did you get your first 10 community members?

Starting a new community is always exciting. But getting your first 10 members can sometimes feel like the hardest to get. This discussion is an extension of Kaustubh’s article -...

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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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Kaustubh Katdare
@kaustubh • Apr 2, 2025

Apr 2, 2025

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Medial App (Shark Tank India) : Social Network

Medial App pitched on Shark Tank India. It’s a cool social network that takes on X and goes beyond by offering features like Startup Showcase (India’s Product Hunt) and other...

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Sara
@butterfly-sara • Jun 3, 2025

Jun 3, 2025

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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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Kaustubh Katdare
@kaustubh • Mar 18, 2026

Mar 18, 2026

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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 • Mar 19, 2025

Mar 19, 2025

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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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Kaustubh Katdare
@kaustubh • Feb 12, 2025

Feb 12, 2025

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Jatra - A Powerful Discourse Alternative for Communities

It’s been 20 years since I started managing online communities.Back in 2005, I created my first community on phpBB - a popular platform at the time. Over the next two...

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Kaustubh Katdare
@kaustubh • Apr 17, 2025

Apr 17, 2025

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WhatsApp Community Growth and Engagement Guide

In this guide, you will learn the proven techniques to grow your WhatsApp community and boost engagement. As someone who has been building online communities for over 20 years; I...

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Changelog: Version: 2.0.0

Public, Private and Restricted Channels on Jatra

Published: Jan 29, 2025

new feature bugfix improvement

We are excited to announce a major upgrade to Jatra Community Platform. Following is the overview of what’s new, and available immediately to all Jatra consumers.You can now create 4...

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Kaustubh Katdare
@kaustubh • Jan 30, 2025

Jan 30, 2025

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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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Kaustubh Katdare
@kaustubh • Feb 13, 2025

Feb 13, 2025

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Sneak Peek At Upcoming Features on Jatra

ETA: January, 2025 last week.After several weeks of working behind the scenes, we are excited to start 2025 with a huge update to Jatra Community Platform.The settings section is getting...

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Paula Derrenger
@paulad • Feb 16, 2025

Feb 16, 2025

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Allow multiple cropping options 1:1, 4:3, 16:9 on featured image editor

It would be great if the featured image editor offered multiple cropping options. I’m trying to upload a square image, but it’s forcing me to crop it into a 16:9...

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Improvement

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Released
Kaustubh Katdare
@kaustubh • Mar 26, 2025

Mar 26, 2025

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Self-Hosted Vs. Fully Managed Community Platform - What Should You Pick?

When starting a new community, you’ll have to choose between a self-hosted and a fully-managed community platform.In my career spanning 20 years as an entrepreneur and community builder, I’ve managed...

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Claire Marie
@4lDaIgo • Jan 1, 2025

Jan 1, 2025

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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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Kaustubh Katdare
@kaustubh-katdare • Dec 28, 2024

Dec 28, 2024

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Reply count is not updated after deleting replies

Submitting this on behalf of our customer; so that we can keep track. Here are steps to reproduce:Find a thread with more than 1 repliesDelete one reply and observeThe reply...

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Bug

Status

Reviewing
Amanda N
@9uiMsSB • May 2, 2026

May 2, 2026

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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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Angela Williams
@angela-williams • Dec 18, 2024

Dec 18, 2024

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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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Paula Derrenger
@paulad • Dec 4, 2024

Dec 4, 2024

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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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