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@BlockChainMentor - this should be useful to promote your upcoming events. @rambling-rab...

@BlockChainMentor - this should be useful to promote your upcoming events. @rambling-rabbit - FYI.

New Features -> Pinned (Sticky) Posts and More Hero Panels

Jatra v.3.7.5 introduces two new features: Pinned/Sticky Posts: Admins can now pin any post to the top of the main feed. The...

Absolutely. If the content is placed in a subfolder like example.com/communitythe communit...

Absolutely. If the content is placed in a subfolder like example.com/communitythe community does receive benefit of the backlinks built to marketing and...

@norman - Permissions system is being worked on. As you already know - we keep things simp...

@norman - Permissions system is being worked on. As you already know - we keep things simpler on the admin front by...

It's not planned, but I've made a note of the request.

It's not planned, but I've made a note of the request.

Who created the first emoticon?

This topic keeps popping up in every discussion. The misinformation out there is just over...

This topic keeps popping up in every discussion. The misinformation out there is just overwhelming. I'll repeat my advice: Subdomain or Subdirectory...

@paulad - just noticed your reply. Sorry that I couldn't reply earlier. It's due, and I...

@paulad - just noticed your reply. Sorry that I couldn't reply earlier. It's due, and I know. I'm going to write a...

Thank you, Paula. As discussed in yesterday's call about getting engagement in WhatsApp co...

Thank you, Paula. As discussed in yesterday's call about getting engagement in WhatsApp communities, I've written a small guide - WhatsApp Community...

Update: I've wrote about 11 common techniques and tips to boost community engagement. Thes...

Update: I've wrote about 11 common techniques and tips to boost community engagement. These are more strategic ones. These strategies have been...

How to Boost Community Engagement: Respond. Don't Answer

The simplest trick I learned to boost community engagement was to stop answering questions. When a new member posts a question, be...

Here are few more ways to get more members into your WhatsApp group. These are from severa...

Here are few more ways to get more members into your WhatsApp group. These are from several years of building and growing...

Right now, we don't and we won't mostly likely have a detailed user roles system. Most mem...

Right now, we don't and we won't mostly likely have a detailed user roles system. Most members don't care about it and...

Which online community launched in 1985?

Addendum. There are few advance ways to find out which forum software you're using: Cooki...

Addendum. There are few advance ways to find out which forum software you're using: Cookie Name Check: Open your browser's developer tools...

Not now, but planned. Jatra is designed to let one person manage very large communities. A...

Not now, but planned. Jatra is designed to let one person manage very large communities. An important feature on our roadmap -...

Hey @alejandro - welcome to Jatra. Jatra's spam prevention system blocks any links added f...

Hey @alejandro - welcome to Jatra. Jatra's spam prevention system blocks any links added from new members. Sorry about that. You can...

In the 90-9-1 rule, what is the 1?

New Feature 🙌 - Member Recognition with Badge System

Every community has a handful of people who show up, answer questions, and keep conversations alive. Jatra v3.7.4 lets you mark them....

What is Dunbar's number?

Future of Communities in AI-Led World

The best way to predict the future is to figure out what will NOT change in the next 10 years. As AI...

Get Your Community Cited by AI - The Community AEO Guide

The most-cited source in AI answers about your category is a forum you do not own. Peec AI analysed 30 million sources...

New members join, but don't post. What worked for your community?

Most common problem online communities face is - new members join, but do not post. They just read a few posts, some...

Update: The radio-boxes have been replaced with nice icons. 🙂

Update: The radio-boxes have been replaced with nice icons. 🙂

@BlockChainMentor - Our latest feature should take care of the use case where admins can p...

@BlockChainMentor - Our latest feature should take care of the use case where admins can prevent others from commenting on public but...

New Feature :: Thread Lock 🔒

Version 3.7.3 of Jatra Community Platform introduces a quality of life feature: Thread Locking. The admins and owners can now lock any...

Thank you, @paulad . Hope you like the new system. If you have suggestions, let us know.

Thank you, @paulad . Hope you like the new system. If you have suggestions, let us know.

One of the points discussed in yesterday's meeting. The potential client is looking to mig...

One of the points discussed in yesterday's meeting. The potential client is looking to migrate their community from Slack and asked if...

Important :: Default Community Session Duration Update

We've recently rolled-out a change to the session lifetime. Until now, we had a 30-day window for users to stay logged-in. That...

Subdomain vs Subfolder for Your Community - It Just Doesn't Matter

If you do not have the time and can trust someone who's spent nearly 20 years building online communities and experimenting with...

New Feature :: Member List 🙌

We are pleased to roll out 'Member List'. Member list allows admins and members to take a quick glance at the members...

Jatra v.3.7.1 - Speed Improvements with Faster Queries

We are pleased to release several speed improvements to Jatra. Mostly - the index pages, activity feed and channel counts were causing...

Give it a try and let us know your feedback. It's a powerful feature and comes with config...

Give it a try and let us know your feedback. It's a powerful feature and comes with configuration options.

Jatra V. 3.7 # New Feature :: Hero Panels + Layout Update

We are excited to release the latest version of Jatra - 3.7. This release packs one of the most awaited feature: Hero...

Introducing Hero Panels -> Multi-purpose Banners for Your Community

We are excited to introduce a new feature - Hero Panels Community owners can now feature up to 3 hero panels above...

Hi Shahid, what's the problem you are facing? What kind of community is it? It'd help if y...

Hi Shahid, what's the problem you are facing? What kind of community is it? It'd help if you share some more context...

Update: The point about Facebook missing out on organic community growth is right. When de...

Update: The point about Facebook missing out on organic community growth is right. When deciding a community platform for your community, there...

Update: Facebook owes you nothing. They can shut down communities or disable features that...

Update: Facebook owes you nothing. They can shut down communities or disable features that don't serve their ad model. If you are...

Update: While Facebook is free, there are hidden costs of running a Facebook Community. I...

Update: While Facebook is free, there are hidden costs of running a Facebook Community. I recently wrote an article on this topic...

Further Enhancements to Jatra's Spam Catcher

Today, we have released a new addition to Jatra's Spam Catcher. We now monitor user registrations and flag the suspicious users. This...

Jatra Moderation System Improvements - Easy User Bans

We have released a small feature that improves Jatra's moderation system. Admins can now ban individual users or a group of users...

Does the order of URLs in an XML Sitemap Matter?

Yesterday, while talking to a potential customer of Jatra, we talked about Jatra's advanced SEO (and AEO) capabilities. . During the discussion,...

Update: We have published a detailed comparison of Discourse and Jatra Community Platform....

Update: We have published a detailed comparison of Discourse and Jatra Community Platform. The article compares both platforms on various parameters from...

Best Community Platforms in 2026 - According to Reddit

According to Reddit, the best community platforms in 2026 to host a community are: Jatra Community Platform: Best overall. Highlights are advance...

Update: @moni - We've published a guide that shows how to bring a slack community back to...

Update: @moni - We've published a guide that shows how to bring a slack community back to life. The techniques and tips...

If you are looking for a white-label community platform for your business and want to talk...

If you are looking for a white-label community platform for your business and want to talk to someone who understands this space,...

What is a White Label Community Platform? Meaning, Benefits and How it Works

Building a community platform is a complex process. It requires a lot of maintenance, updates and monitoring. This is why businesses do...

If you are looking for community platforms for your B2B SaaS, we've released a detailed co...

If you are looking for community platforms for your B2B SaaS, we've released a detailed comparison guide on how the most popular...

Update: We have published a detailed comparison of various community platforms for SaaS co...

Update: We have published a detailed comparison of various community platforms for SaaS communities: Best Discourse Alternatives for SaaS Communities in 2026

Custom Meta Descriptions Will Be Deprecated Through Upcoming Updates

We've decided to deprecate the custom meta descriptions through upcoming updates to Jatra. Over the past few years, we've seen that the...

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...

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: 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.

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...