I understand - so you would not be interested in perks at all then or rather we should guarantee your data privacy (tough to do bit with perks but we can look into it)?
Hey HN - sorry for the amateur website. We had recently started building towards the idea when a friend notified me that a couple discussions around this subject of community forums vs Discord happened here so I figured I would jump in and put this out here while it is top of mind.
Discord now has a stronghold on community platforms. The reason it is valued are two-fold:
- Quick and easy to spin up
- Pushes for noise and activity rather than benefit or knowledge (which companies who wanna boast numbers value)
We would like to bring back the good old fashioned community forums with a couple twists:
- As much spam-free as possible through AI flagging (used to be a problem)
- Chat baked inside (chatrooms being optional under discussions)
- Multi-tenant authentication (one registration will be enough to join other community forum instances)
We are looking to talk to more people and would love to hear critique about this. All feedback is super welcome.
Late to discussion but we are building around this due to same pain points: https://www.den-hq.com/
It has not been long that we started working on this. More than half of the time we spend goes with potential customer interactions. Here are our insights so far:
- Companies are well aware of the information clutterness that Discord bears
- Companies value the activity level of the server more relative to the usefulness of the community
- Developer communities are an outlier here
- People who join a community platform when outside Discord are more valued vs the ones that are on Discord
I am looking to talk to more people around this so we can build a first version as informed as possible as to what the best version would look like. Feel free to sign up in our waitlist and I will make sure to reach out.
Nice one - I am looking for a solution that has session recordings ideally as well. Posthog has them but their support is very bad. Mixpanel is good but they do not have session recordings.
Someone with this product and session recordings would win the market 100%
Even though the traffic is very limited to my blog - which I believe is the case with 99% of personal blogs/websites - going back to the blog to write more stuff and reading through old posts are useful. It gives you an insight of how you were thinking about something else or something that you should care about but you forgot to do
You can leverage the current users by opening up the chat to any user or the member of the website/app. They can bring their messages to any other website as well.
In this way, your visitor community could help you manage customer relations and also talk about your product live.
Vaga is an embeddable widget for public chats and private chats. You can copy paste a script in your website and the chat widget will appear. Users are able to see the chat without registering
Vaga relies on a decentralized database ensured by GUN and lets you own your data.
Vaga.chat opens up the waitlist for its embeddable Intercom-like widget where visitors of a website can chat with each other as a community natively on any website. Metamask logins included