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Agreed. We don't have full feature parity with Canny yet; but that's not the point. A lot...

Agreed. We don't have full feature parity with Canny yet; but that's not the point. A lot of SaaS companies will do...

Update: Status of the bug changed from New -> Building.

Update: Status of the bug changed from New -> Building.

Bug :: Cursor Jumps to the Bottom of Text When Draft is Saved While Editing

We are aware of a bug in Jatra's editor that causes the text cursor jump to the end of the text /...

Why Product Feedback, Changelog, and Roadmap Should Live Inside Your Community

Where Should Product Feedback Live? Inside Your Community, Not a Separate Tool I've operated in the SaaS world for almost a decade....

Welcome to Jatra, @cool-dog . I'm the founder at Jatra; so read everything below with that...

Welcome to Jatra, @cool-dog . I'm the founder at Jatra; so read everything below with that in mind. I'll be straight about...

What Is a Reliable Community Engagement Platform? (Know Before You Commit)

A reliable community engagement platform is software that hosts your member discussions and content with three guarantees: your data stays yours and...

Jatra Update : June 2026

Dear Jatra family, it's been a while since we posted an update on what's happening behind the scenes at Jatra. New Clients:...

Update: Status changed to 'Reviewing'. Profile links will be a part of the upcoming layou...

Update: Status changed to 'Reviewing'. Profile links will be a part of the upcoming layout upgrade we are planning. While the design...

Update: Jatra is soon receiving a visual makeover! 🙂

Update: Jatra is soon receiving a visual makeover! 🙂

New Feature :: "Quick Posts" - New Post Type for Quick Posting

We are excited to announce the launch of new "post" post-type. This new post-type allows quick posting in the community; without needing...

Update: We've tested and compared some of the top alternatives to Xenforo - a popular foru...

Update: We've tested and compared some of the top alternatives to Xenforo - a popular forum software. The article also contains what...

Update: Those of you looking for official documentation from Google, look Pagination Best...

Update: Those of you looking for official documentation from Google, look Pagination Best Practices for Google | Google Search Central | Documentation...

Pagination and Canonical URLs in Communities and Forums - What's the Right Way?

Pagination is an important aspect of forums and community platforms. While building Jatra, one of the key decisions I had to make...

A caution though: Enabling Push Notifications on mobile / laptop will lead to single notif...

A caution though: Enabling Push Notifications on mobile / laptop will lead to single notification sent multiple times. During our global rollout,...

Tagging @fluffy-rickshaw , @florian and @YmH9kAs

Tagging @fluffy-rickshaw , @florian and @YmH9kAs

Tagging @norman , @BlockChainMentor , @butterfly-sara

Tagging @norman , @BlockChainMentor , @butterfly-sara

Tagging @ambarish , @monster , @abrakdabra - Please do install the app. We'll soon have a...

Tagging @ambarish , @monster , @abrakdabra - Please do install the app. We'll soon have a visual 3-step guide to enabling notifications...

Beta Testing : Web Push Notifications + Jatra Progressive Web App

At Jatra, we are testing two upcoming features - Web Push Notifications and Progressive Web App. Web Push Notifications: We've tried to...

Update: I've just published a thread on how to get your community content indexed faster....

Update: I've just published a thread on how to get your community content indexed faster. This is not possible with WhatsApp. Take...

How to Get Forum Content Indexed and Ranked Faster

I built CrazyEngineers community from 0 -> 400,000+ members organically. Between 2011 - 2017, it was one of the largest engineering forums...

New Feature 🎉 : 'meme' Post Type : Share Memes Like a Pro

I am excited to introduce a new 'post-type' in Jatra's growing list of natively supported post-types: Meme This post-type was developed specially...

Update: WhatsApp is NOT a great community platform. It's a chat tool and it excels at allo...

Update: WhatsApp is NOT a great community platform. It's a chat tool and it excels at allowing real time chat among a...

There's an update: WhatsApp has been promising a new feature that will let users choose th...

There's an update: WhatsApp has been promising a new feature that will let users choose their 'usernames'. This will allow them to...

Update: WhatsApp has released a video that shows the process. It's bit old; but should giv...

Update: WhatsApp has released a video that shows the process. It's bit old; but should give you an idea of how to...

How to Build a Community on WhatsApp — and Watch It Fail

Over the past eight years, I have built 12 communities on WhatsApp. Some peaked at 50 members and others pushed past 800....

Hi @florian , we've discussed this over the call. I'll share the highlights from our call...

Hi @florian , we've discussed this over the call. I'll share the highlights from our call in this thread for future visitors...

Welcome to Jatra, Ying. We're happy to have you in the community. I've run a vBulletin (vB...

Welcome to Jatra, Ying. We're happy to have you in the community. I've run a vBulletin (vB) powered community for a few...

Perfect! Good visuals enhance the overall on-page UX; which helps reduce the bounce rate a...

Perfect! Good visuals enhance the overall on-page UX; which helps reduce the bounce rate as well as improve the session time. Both...

Short answer: Images are very important for SEO. Images act as SEO-enhancers. I'll explain...

Short answer: Images are very important for SEO. Images act as SEO-enhancers. I'll explain how Googlebot and web crawlers treat images and...

Really appreciate, @monster . I'll let you know. Might need your help review the script.

Really appreciate, @monster . I'll let you know. Might need your help review the script.

@paulad - thank you for reporting this. I believe access to the resources should be for me...

@paulad - thank you for reporting this. I believe access to the resources should be for members only. Therefore, guests should be...

Announcing Jatra Polls : The Most Beautiful Polling System You've Ever Seen

We've just announced the new "Polls" feature. You may read the details in our changelog: New Feature: Poll 🎉 : Attach Polls...

New Feature: Poll 🎉 : Attach Polls to Your Discussions, Articles and Announcements

Say hello to Jatra's Poll system! Polls has been one of the core features that popped-in our discussions for a while. I'm...

Why Private Communities are Harder to Grow

Should your community be public or private? In this short article, I discuss the pros and cons of building a private community...

Jatra UI Update : Wider Layout + More Space

The hawk-eyed members of Jatra might have already noticed that we've a wider layout. The wider layout allows us: More space for...

Note: Resource post type is available to all Jatra powered communities. In order to enable...

Note: Resource post type is available to all Jatra powered communities. In order to enable it: Head over the the admin panelCreate...

Introducing "Resource" Post Type 🎉 : Share files, videos and links with your community

Every great community runs on shared knowledge. The tutorial that saves someone a weekend. The spreadsheet template that becomes the team standard....

LinkedIn Post - Should you build a community on Reddit?

I wrote a LinkedIn post on building a community on Reddit (rented land) vs owned platform (like Jatra Community Platform). Check it...

Thank you, Shubhada. In near future, we'll add a new metric to the analytics: Number of DM...

Thank you, Shubhada. In near future, we'll add a new metric to the analytics: Number of DMs exchanged. When a community exchanges...

Update: We've published a comprehensive study on the differences between Discourse and Jat...

Update: We've published a comprehensive study on the differences between Discourse and Jatra. We've considered several factors while comparing these two communi...

SEO Improvements :: Better Structured Data

We have published several updates to Jatra's core that target a few SEO bugs and introduces improvements. SEO & Structured Data Improvements...

Community SEO - how do I know it's working?

So, how do you know that all the SEO improvements you've implemented are working? Looking at Google Analytics and Google Search Console...

How to migrate your community from Discourse to Jatra?

Can you migrate your community from Discourse to Jatra? Yes - you can. However, it's not a 'self-serve' migration. We'll do it...

Server-Side Rendering (SSR) Vs. Client-Side Rendering (CSR) - What's Better for SEO?

Modern web applications can render the content in two fundamentally different place: on the server before the response is sent or in...

The most accurate definition of an online community

I noticed that people have different definitions of an online community. Here's the most accurate definition of an online community: An online...

Using sitewide notice for displaying products services is not a good idea. We have a proto...

Using sitewide notice for displaying products services is not a good idea. We have a prototype for 'shop' post type that can...

I'm glad you liked it, @BlockChainMentor .🙌

I'm glad you liked it, @BlockChainMentor .🙌

Reply to this reply and test-drive the nested replies feature yourself. 😀

Reply to this reply and test-drive the nested replies feature yourself. 😀

There are even more changes planned; Amit. Stay tuned 🙂

There are even more changes planned; Amit. Stay tuned 🙂

You are welcome, @moni ! 🙂

You are welcome, @moni ! 🙂

Jatra Nested Replies and Future Scope

We've recently released the Jatra's Nested Replies system to all the communities powered by Jatra Community Platform. We now request our fellow...

Update: There are lots of questions being asked via DMs about optimizing the community con...

Update: There are lots of questions being asked via DMs about optimizing the community content - questions / articles etc. for SEO....

Update: Nested Replies feature is now live: Sneak Peek At Jatras Nested Replies

Update: Nested Replies feature is now live: Sneak Peek At Jatras Nested Replies

New Feature 🎉 : Nested Replies - Clarity > Chaos!

We are proud to announce the general availability of Jatra's Nested Replies system to all Jatra-powered communities. Jatra's Nested Replies system chooses...

Welcome to Jatra @brave-forest . Jatra is designed to work with any website. It can be con...

Welcome to Jatra @brave-forest . Jatra is designed to work with any website. It can be configured to work on a subdomain...

Thank you, @BlockChainMentor and @priyasahu . We're aiming to launch this over the weekend...

Thank you, @BlockChainMentor and @priyasahu . We're aiming to launch this over the weekend. Currently testing load times and a few edge...

Sneak Peek @ Jatra's Nested Replies

When we built the first prototype of Jatra - we were 100% sure that we won't introduce nested replies. Nested replies aren't...

Update: We are expecting slight delays in beta launches of the above features. We are pri...

Update: We are expecting slight delays in beta launches of the above features. We are prioritising the nested replies feature over the...

Welcome back, @priyasahu . I've updated the title of this thread. It's not possible to tr...

Welcome back, @priyasahu . I've updated the title of this thread. It's not possible to transfer WhatsApp Community to Jatra. WhatsApp does...

April 2026 Behind the Scenes: Jatra Rooms + Nested Replies and One More Thing

It's been a while I posted an update about what's happening behind the scenes at Jatra. Here's a sneak peek at what...

@norman - the concept of banner is really simple - to show a message or announcement to gu...

@norman - the concept of banner is really simple - to show a message or announcement to guests and logged-in members. It...

Thank you, @monster and @norman . I appreciate your encouragement. Jatra builds upon the c...

Thank you, @monster and @norman . I appreciate your encouragement. Jatra builds upon the core that was developed for nearly 10 years....

@alex - We used to have 120 minutes as the session timeout; which has now been updated to...

@alex - We used to have 120 minutes as the session timeout; which has now been updated to 30 days. Plus, we...

Which platform does this logo represent?

Community SEO : Which tag prevents page indexing?

Tagging @buoyant-moderator and @peaceful-pal - thank you for suggesting this feature.

Tagging @buoyant-moderator and @peaceful-pal - thank you for suggesting this feature.

New Feature 🎉 : Stay Logged-In on Your Device

Jatra Version 3.3.3 introduces a quality of life feature that lets users stay logged-in on their device. The logins persist even when...

Jatra Theme Designer UI + Usability Updates

We've released a small set of fixes to Jatra's UI designer. Following is the summary of the changes implemented in version 3.3.2:...

I'm glad you liked it @BlockChainMentor . There's a lot to cover in this topic; and I plan...

I'm glad you liked it @BlockChainMentor . There's a lot to cover in this topic; and I plan to dive deeper. Pair...

Why Your Community Gets No Traffic (And How to Fix It)

If your community is getting no traffic, this article will show you why. You will learn the biggest mistakes that stop communities...

Sitemap Generation Performance Improvements

We have released a patch to improve the performance of Jatra's sitemap generator. We received a complain about site becoming unresponsive for...

Attention @BlockChainMentor : When publishing articles with large number of links, the pos...

Attention @BlockChainMentor : When publishing articles with large number of links, the posting may slow down. Please let us know if you...

New SEO Feature 🎉 : Auto Link-Processing

We’ve automated one of the most tedious parts of SEO: anchor text optimization. Jatra now automatically fetches and applies descriptive anchor text...

Feedback Required: Sitewide Banner / Notice

We recently received a request for the ability to add sitewide banner to the community. The goal is to be able to...

How to Plan Your First 90 Days as a New Community Manager

Congratulations on starting a new role as a community manager. Now that the celebration is over, let’s get to work. Your first...

This functionality has been released in Jatra 3.x. Members can now upload favicon of their...

This functionality has been released in Jatra 3.x. Members can now upload favicon of their choice. In addition, users can upload a...

@BlockChainMentor - We've released a fix that should now allow pasting directly from MS Wo...

@BlockChainMentor - We've released a fix that should now allow pasting directly from MS Word or Google Docs. It's however strongly recommended...

Speed Improvements to '@mention' suggestions

We've released a small update the to Jatra's member search and suggestions engine that offers instant member suggestions especially on large communities...

New Feature 🎉 :: Mark Reply as 'The Best'

All our Jatra powered communities have been updated with a new feature that lets post authors mark any reply on their thread...

@ambarish - you can now actually 'Watch' any thread. Take a look: https://community.jatra...

@ambarish - you can now actually 'Watch' any thread. Take a look: https://community.jatra.club/changelog/new-feature-thread-watching-and-smart-reply-notificati...

It's automatically enabled for all communities, @paulad . Simply visit any thread / articl...

It's automatically enabled for all communities, @paulad . Simply visit any thread / article with replies and you should see it. No...

New Feature :: Likes on Replies 😍

Jatra 3.2.7 now allows likes on replies! Yeah, we know you've been waiting for this feature for a long time; but finally...

We thank @paulad - for suggesting this feature. 🙌

We thank @paulad - for suggesting this feature. 🙌

New Feature 🎉 :: Thread Watching and Smart Reply Notifications

Say hello to Jatra's Thread Watch system! Smart Thread Watchers Version 3.2.6 introduces a new system that lets your users stay updated...

@BlockChainMentor - thank you for the details. We're looking into the issue. An update wil...

@BlockChainMentor - thank you for the details. We're looking into the issue. An update will be provided in the next 24 hours.

Jatra Community Platform is now a strong alternative to both XenForo and Discourse. Choose...

Jatra Community Platform is now a strong alternative to both XenForo and Discourse. Choose Jatra because: We'll build your community with youEngage...

@ambarish - thank you. I believe we'll need likes on replies as well 🙂

@ambarish - thank you. I believe we'll need likes on replies as well 🙂

@ambarish - this is required in a specific case where the contents are first created in a...

@ambarish - this is required in a specific case where the contents are first created in a word document and then pasted...

Update: We've made og-img urls noindex . This should help fix the error reported in Google...

Update: We've made og-img urls noindex . This should help fix the error reported in Google Search Console. cc: @BlockChainMentor

Jatra 3.2.5 :: OG Image Improvements

We've published an update the improves the automatic OG-IMG generation for discussions, posts that do not have an attached image. OG IMG...

Request : Support Copy-Paste from Microsoft Word in Post / Article Editor

We've received a request to support copy-paste from Microsoft Word. Microsoft Word uses a different technique to markup the text; and it's...

Jatra 3:2:4 :: Moderation Improvements - Report Post + Profanity Filter

We introduced two major moderation upgrades to help communities stay healthy without adding friction for genuine members. New: Community Profanity Filter (Admi...

Jatra 3.2.3 :: Custom Links, Post Filter Improvements and Visual Updates for Quiz

We are happy to release a new Quality of Life update to Jatra. This is a minor upgrade that introduces a new...

Jatra 3.2.2 :: @mention Users with Smart Recommendations

Jatra V.3.2.2 introduces a new feature to tag users with '@' mentions. We've been testing this feature in beta state for the...

Jatra 3.2.1 :: Scheduling Expands to More Post Types

You can now schedule Discussions and Changelog posts in Jatra. The scheduling flow is consistent across supported post types, so once you...

Jatra 3.1 :: Direct Messaging is Live 👋

Introducing 1:1 Direct Messaging 🙌 You can now send 1:1 direct messages on Jatra. It’s built to feel calm and predictable. No...

Jatra 3:0 :: Brand New User Profiles with User Activity Feed

We’ve redesigned the community user profile experience to feel cleaner, more responsive, and easier to scan. It now looks sharper on both...

@stevenway - it's enabled for every customer and all their communities. Head over to Admin...

@stevenway - it's enabled for every customer and all their communities. Head over to Admin settings: Login as Admin / Owner ->...

Jatra 3.1 :: Jatra Themes + UI Customization Options

We are excited to introduce Jatra Themes and UI Customization options. If you've ever felt the need to tweak your community's look...

Interesting suggestion. We actually designed it to keep all alerts in one place. There are...

Interesting suggestion. We actually designed it to keep all alerts in one place. There are small icons added to quickly show the...

@ambarish - the default one is cool; but you won't believe what we're cooking! 🙌

@ambarish - the default one is cool; but you won't believe what we're cooking! 🙌

Thank you for the feedback, @radhika 🙂

Thank you for the feedback, @radhika 🙂

Update: In near future - we'll let members choose the mode they want. We are working on u...

Update: In near future - we'll let members choose the mode they want. We are working on user-settings which allows users to...

Jatra 3:0 :: Dark Mode Support 🙌

Jatra now supports "Dark Mode" - for the night hawks. 😀 Dark Mode inverts the colors of your Jatra-powered community and make...

Thank you, @norman 🙂 . There's a lot more in store at Jatra in 2026.

Thank you, @norman 🙂 . There's a lot more in store at Jatra in 2026.

Update: This feature has been re-enabled on new Jatra. We had disabled this during the Jat...

Update: This feature has been re-enabled on new Jatra. We had disabled this during the Jatra 3:0 upgrade. Now, after sign-up or...

@ambarish - unfortunately, no. That decision is made by the system. If an Owner / Admin po...

@ambarish - unfortunately, no. That decision is made by the system. If an Owner / Admin posts a link to external website...

@paulad - thank you. We indeed are operating in the founder mode! Frankly speaking, we are...

@paulad - thank you. We indeed are operating in the founder mode! Frankly speaking, we aren't building these features on daily basis....

Jatra 3:0 :: Revamped Notification Feed + Smart Notifications

I'll admit it - the old notification system in Jatra was mostly useless. Yeah, harsh words; but that's the truth. That's why...

@abrakdabra - Thank you. Hope to see you frequently on Jatra community. That said, reducin...

@abrakdabra - Thank you. Hope to see you frequently on Jatra community. That said, reducing the CAS is a top priority for...

How Community Reduces Customer Acquisition Cost for SaaS

Before founding Jatra, I was Head of Growth at a Singapore and India based B2B SaaS startup. My biggest headache was reducing...

Jatra 3:0 :: New Post Editing Experience

Jatra 3.0 brings a new post editing experience. Let's take a look: New Editor We've revamped the editor - and it now...

@BlockChainMentor - If you are getting 'couldn't fetch' error even after 72 hours, there's...

@BlockChainMentor - If you are getting 'couldn't fetch' error even after 72 hours, there's a simple trick you may try:Add a new...