Which is the best platform to build an online community?
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Kyle Tummonds@kyle_tummonds
From my experience, I found that Reddit is a great place to build a community. In addition, if you can offer several mediums for a community to grow, I've found that this provides better results. If you have a reddit community, you can also guide these users to a discord channel as well. This way, the conversation can continue outside of your main posts. It's also really good for support if you are offering a product.
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@kyle_tummonds Solid choice. Reddit has many sub communities that have very specific themes thus meaning that you can find anything you wish. You may nurture niche products, cultivate relationships and build small but strong communities.
I personally prefer discord as it allows for better channel optimization, it allows bots, sub channels connected to other channels, has an outreach to web3 as well and many other perks (social features).
@kyle_tummonds second this! Reddit is, of the community focused platforms, the best that's out there. For now, anyway.
@apollon440 Yes, the Reddit sub-communities make it a unique platform for building a genuine community. And I agree Discord allows great automation to make your community while you sleep!
I would say Twitter and PH :) Still can't figure out Reddit but would love to do so
I've been looking for a while for different tools and right now stopped at 2 choices:
— Discord — we use it for an investment automation platform, looks great so far for ~100 people.
— Circle.so — didn't use it, but looks really promising to me. Would love to try it when I have a chance. A bit pricy though.
@vitalykrenel what's investment automation platform?
as it depends on the specific needs and goals of the community. Some popular options include social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter, as well as dedicated community-building platforms like Discourse and Mighty Networks.
Some great options for building an online community are Discord, Slack, and Reddit. All three platforms have great features to create an engaging and professional community.
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100% Discord
Mainly because it allows for casual chat due to it being a "server" rather than a board.
Also there's voice chat, so you can host events easily.
I've actually built a thriving AI discord around my product evoke-app.com
For an online community id go with Reddit! Good search and voting features and the ability to dive into and run subreddits :)
I know a lot of us are trying to build communities across different spaces - from Fb, Tw, Slack, Reddit & now Discord. While I think it totally depends on your ICP. For example, my ICP (eCommerce - brands & agencies) are active across different channels, depending on how dedicatedly the community drivers are carrying out rituals. My group is trying something separate, a community built on circle.so, to create exclusivity, regular ritual automations, and using circle.so UI which makes consumption of content a lot easier, like this: https://community.dtcdrive.com/c...
We built a community on Slack and it works pretty well for our target persona. In general I would say it depends on who your customers are and what do you want to do with the community.
Using Circle for https://microsaasidea.com So far, no issues.
But I have seen people using Discord too.
We found a lot of success building our own platform with proprietary content
Ive seen plenty of startups use Discord or Slack. Ghost.io and Substack are great if you are also publishing/writing insights. Circle.so is good for your own forum or a simple Buddypress/Wordpress equivalent.
Depending on the type of people you want to join your community, I would utilise free platforms, social media groups where they are, utilise customers to an email list/forum/invite to community platform. Depends if its product orientated community/content orientated or for social.
PH and Twitter!
Having co-created the lablab.ai community, I found Discord to be a great platform for community building.
Twitter is hands down the best for communities around tech. If you are targeting a much older demographic then maybe include Facebook too.
Circle.
Reddit.
Kajabi.
MemberDev.
Uscreen.
Podia.
HumHub.
Disciple.https://twicsy.us/