The success of your community depends on visitors to the site registering and becoming members. For most communities, the more members the better. Others will want to control who and how members register. Vanilla’s forum software provides several registration options: 1. Basic Registration This allows a member to fill out a simple form and immediately [...]
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 [...]
Reputation is an important concept in online communities because it lets community members and moderators know who can be trusted and it allows members, who have invested their time and effort into building the community, accumulate reputation capital which can bring real-world benefits such as influence or employment opportunities.
Vanilla can be integrated to Facebook and Twitter to allow members to register to your Vanilla Forum using their Facebook or Twitter account and to enable the option to share comments they create. Encouraging social sharing is a great way to attract more people to your forum community. Setting up Facebook integration requires creating an [...]
If the objective of your community is to enable social customer support, then setting up Q&A in Vanilla is a must. Here’s an overview of Vanilla’s Q&A feature. Allow users to create a question-type discussion.
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
