Recent content by JoelR

Some thoughts in general: 1. Forums are structurally and fundamentally bad at incentivizing new members. Our basic design and user flow hasn't advanced in over 20 years 2. I've come to the conclusion - and professional community management has arrived at the same conclusion, especially on...

I would be more worried about the day when we CAN'T distinguish between normal human posts and AI posts. The number of users and discussions focused on AI for content posting is distressing. AI can be incredibly powerful in so many other ways, not just content posting or content generation...

One of the really interesting observations about the legacy forum ecosystem is that - as some developers "upscale" their clients while others continue to cater to a low cost / entry level - the piracy will follow the appropriate markets. There are enterprise community software like Salesforce...

One of the interesting perspectives of Discourse is that mega threads usually become tangents of conversations or status updates. Most conversations are actually discrete, with a beginning and ending.

Are you running your forum as a professional business? Or are you running it as a fun hobbyist social forum? In no way am I critiquing the purpose of the background check. All I'm pointing out is that we should match the efforts of the background check to the purpose and point of the forum...

I think the better question is ... Why do you care? What would you do with that information if you happened to know their real name and general location?

On a serious note, I think this could be a valid strategy if you're looking to drive engagement for the sake of engagement. Its great at driving more posts. However ... My critique of this strategy is that you will find yourself rehashing volatile topics (IPS vs XF! XF versus IPS!), which...

The open ended Pages application, where you can build databases of content such as articles, dictionaries, recipe sections, etc. is very powerful and doesn't quite have the same match in other platforms. IPS is an acquired taste. They don't pretend to cater to the freewheeling legacy forum...

Did you ... Recycle this topic?? 🫢

It's really smooth on mobile, nice job! I haven't come across many NodeBB so it's great to try it out in person. Have you been able to check into the settings to see if they offer anything interesting?

You got a forum for sale?? 😄

One of the core principles of people management: publicly praise, privately critique. There's no reason to make personnel issues public, unless there is a strategic reason or value to the community to make certain actions known.

Hi, We already moderate the community for spam every day; there are users who are caught as part of the registration and we also have staff members who catch spam when they can. I appreciate your thoughts, but I was simply providing a helpful point that we appreciate members who use the report...

If you see any spam at Admin Junkies, please use the report function! It helps a lot to trigger a search for other spam.

I think a better question to re-frame the scenario for someone like you (and myself and most of the community admins here) is, if you were to start an online group for the first time without any prior experience, would you go self hosted or managed? Most of us look at this question with 10+...