Kaustubh Katdare
Founder
Kaustubh is a 3x TEDx Speaker, Community Builder and Founder at Jatra Community Platform. I would love to help you build your community.
- Member since
- Jun 17, 2024
- Last active
- May 22, 2026
- Total activities
- 706
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#Community 101
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...
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#Feedback
Update: Status of the bug changed from New -> Building.
Update: Status of the bug changed from New -> Building.
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#Feedback
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 /...
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#Community 101
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....
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#Discussions
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...
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#Community 101
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...
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#Announcements
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:...
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#Feedback
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...
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#Platform Updates
Update: Jatra is soon receiving a visual makeover! 🙂
Update: Jatra is soon receiving a visual makeover! 🙂
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#Platform Updates
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...
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#Discussions
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...
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#Discussions
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...
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#Discussions
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...
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#Announcements
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,...
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#Announcements
Tagging @fluffy-rickshaw , @florian and @YmH9kAs
Tagging @fluffy-rickshaw , @florian and @YmH9kAs
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#Announcements
Tagging @norman , @BlockChainMentor , @butterfly-sara
Tagging @norman , @BlockChainMentor , @butterfly-sara
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#Announcements
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...
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#Announcements
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...
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#Community 101
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...
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#Community 101
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...
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#Platform Updates
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...
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#Community 101
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...
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#Community 101
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...
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#Community 101
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...
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#Community 101
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....
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#Discussions
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...
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#Discussions
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...
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#Discussions
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...
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#Discussions
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...
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#Discussions
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.
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#Feedback
@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...
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#Announcements
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...
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#Platform Updates
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...
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#Resources
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...
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#Platform Updates
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...
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#Platform Updates
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...
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#Platform Updates
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....
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#Resources
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...
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#Platform Updates
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...
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#Discussions
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...
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#Platform Updates
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...
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#Discussions
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...
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#Discussions
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...
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#Community 101
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...
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#Discussions
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...
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#Feedback
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...
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#Platform Updates
I'm glad you liked it, @BlockChainMentor .🙌
I'm glad you liked it, @BlockChainMentor .🙌
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#Platform Updates
Reply to this reply and test-drive the nested replies feature yourself. 😀
Reply to this reply and test-drive the nested replies feature yourself. 😀
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#Announcements
There are even more changes planned; Amit. Stay tuned 🙂
There are even more changes planned; Amit. Stay tuned 🙂
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#Community 101
You are welcome, @moni ! 🙂
You are welcome, @moni ! 🙂
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#Announcements
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...
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#Community 101
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....
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#Announcements
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
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#Platform Updates
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...
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#Discussions
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...
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#Announcements
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...
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#Announcements
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...
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#Announcements
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...
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#Discussions
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...
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#Announcements
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...
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#Feedback
@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...
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#Announcements
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....
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#Platform Updates
@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...
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#Community Quiz
Which platform does this logo represent?
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#Community Quiz
Community SEO : Which tag prevents page indexing?
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#Platform Updates
Tagging @buoyant-moderator and @peaceful-pal - thank you for suggesting this feature.
Tagging @buoyant-moderator and @peaceful-pal - thank you for suggesting this feature.