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[Kitty Kilian | De Blogacademie]

Wow, that is some daring move! I know about forums, the modifying must have been so much work!

What I do not yet understand is the exact advantage of chucking forum and blog together - forum members ánd non forum members can react, can’t they? But wasn’t that also the case when the blog was still seperate?

Is it maybe easier to convert your fanbase into forum members this way?

[Neville]

Thank you @Kitty Kilian | De Blogacademie!

I can set permissions on everything with the forum, so non-logged in members see this:

Whereas logged-in members see this:

 

Also if non-members try to click member-only content they hit an option to subscribe to see it. All around helpful feature!

[Kitty Kilian | De Blogacademie]

Thank you, I get that, I run a phpbb forum. For my student’s homework. My question is: what is the greatest advantage of merging blog and forum? Is it the conversion of readers to members?

it is a pretty unusual thing to do, and I hear you when you say communities are the future. Is the main reason you wanted a community then? 

I agree there is no proper community software - I have also searched - for groups that want to echange long form, formatted texts. There are a few LMSes that do a proper job of the latter (but very few) but nowhere can you group discussions in threads like in forums.

Indeed, the WP forum plugins are shakey. 

Seems to me there is room for a new product here. Forums are wonky and ugly things too. Hard to make them look nice, easy to navigate BUT they takes a lot of clicking around.

I even tried out a new type of forum that remembers what you’ve read, which saves clicking, but it was very unstable.

But do you mean you will disappear from all social media in time? Focus on the community?

 

 

Edited August 11, 2022 by Kitty Kilian | De Blogacademie

[Kitty Kilian | De Blogacademie]

No, I get it. Everyone is sick of those fickle social medium algorhytms, is that it? Back to our own circles of influence?