One of Vanilla’s best features is that it gives you a lot of control over your forum’s appearance to make it looks as nice as your website. Your community website should have a modern look and uniquely reflect your brand, not look like some relic from the past century. This post gives a high level [...]
Ranks are a great feature that can be used to limit abilities and/or reward members in your community based on Vanilla’s reputation system. You should consider using Ranks if you… Want to restrict what new members can do until they have proven themselves; Want to reward top members with public recognition and additional abilities; Want [...]
Back in April, Mark blogged about why Vanilla is called Vanilla. When you get started with Vanilla, you start with something plain and simple – a blank canvas. You then build it up the way you want it. Whether your objective is to provide better customer service or provide a online home for enthusiasts, your [...]
When you’re thinking about building a new community, or migrating your existing community to a new host, there is an almost infinite pool of generic hosting choices available to you. Even as a technology professional these choices can be very difficult to compare, and depending on the size of your community a bad decision here [...]
This is a message for anyone who would like to help keep the translations of Vanilla up-to-date. We’ve uploaded Vanilla’s translations to an online service called Transifex. We think this tool will really improve the translation workflow in Vanilla. Here is how it works: The Vanilla team uploads the text used in Vanilla to transifex. There [...]
Vanilla's next gen forum platform lets you build a community that will really engage your audience to drive participation and advocacy.
Todd Burry Chief Product Officer, Co-Founder
Tim GunterDirector of Infrastructure and Ops
Mark O'SullivanCo-Founder
Matt Lincoln Russell Developer
Luc Vezina CEO
