Spectrum - Build better communities

@arunsathiya thanks Arun! Hope you're enjoying everything so far, let us know if any questions pop up :)

@tayler2412 Thanks Tayler!

@jeff_osborn We have so many ideas and plans! We already have some features to make a community owners job easier (moderation tools, community analytics, etc), but we also have lots of ideas we want to explore like content ingestion, thread/member approval, better moderation tools and more. Let me throw that question right back at you: If you currently admin a community, what would you like us to build next?

@mxstbr Thanks for getting back - all good to hear! I don't admin a community, but if I did, I'd be looking for support in marketing & getting the word out. I'd be interested in how I could use Spectrum to grow my community exponentially over time. I'm not sure exactly what that would look like, but my if my primary concern were community growth I'd want Spectrum to help me amplify my message, break through the noise, and reach the right people.

@coco_vega we do too 😓 Thanks for bearing with us though Coco!

@vadivelk It's live chat - more akin to something like Slack where it's realtime, but everything is divided by threads, so it's easy to keep things more focused. But unlike both of those options, you can have all your communities, notifications, and DMs with only one account instead of many.

@madebyildi We had a cookie issue that was burning a lot of time, so we just deleted the button for the time being because there were very few users who'd be affected by that.

@uberbryn interesting. I wanted to sign out of my Twitter account to login to my other account which is the one I was going to create a community with. Users such as myself stay away from products that do not allow users to delete account + logout. Seems like a dirty trick to keep you on the site. You appear to have a different reason for doing so, but I hope your team can fix this sooner than later. Cool product btw!

@madebyildi Yeah, that's something I do fairly frequently too. It sucks for sure, but it's definitely not meant to be a trick of any sort. Just an annoying bug on our end. fwiw, I highly recommend using a single account to create and join communities as it's much easier to manage that way. If you're set on switching I've been using multiple Chrome users or diff browsers, but I know that's certainly not ideal. You can clear your application storage/cookies for the time being if you want as well.

@uberbryn @madebyildi definitely not trying to play dirty, I just haven't been able to track down the bug that breaks logout 🙈 Going to fix that asap!

@uberbryn @madebyildi @mxstbr Oh, also - you can "logout" in the short term by just clearing localstorage + cookies. Sorry for the pain there 😫

@itsthisjustin Twist is really focused on team collaboration - we're focused on making a platform that's great for communities, large and small. From an individual user's perspective, we're also combining all of your communities into one feed so that you don't have to maintain separate logins for multiple Twist/Slack accounts, multiple DMs/notifications, etc.

@shivam_dewan in particular, we're more focused on the large scale public community market. Because of that, most content on Spectrum will be publicly viewable, meaning it can get picked up on search engines. This is valuable for businesses who use community platforms as a way to answer questions or share news about their product/company. With Spectrum, those conversations will be discoverable down the road, where on Facebook those conversations are always locked away and won't ever be indexed.

@brian_lovin Cool! looks so awesome :) & out of curiosity, can you elaborate how this compares with Reddit? cos Reddit has been my go-to platform for discussion, questions and community building?

@morajabi good call!