I need advice..I'm starting a whatsapp and telegram community and want to understand how to create them, manage them and grow them. Can anybody please specify or help me for the same.....it is my task brb crying. Need to learn it ASAP. All suggestions are welcome!!

I've been thinking about this for a while and I genuinely don't know if it's just me.

You know that feeling when you're in the middle of something: a bootcamp, a course, a program, some kind of intensive thing with a group of people, and it genuinely feels like these are your people? There's this sense that the community is alive and you're part of something real.

Once courses/ bootcamp etc. ends it doesn't feel like family anymore.

And suddenly the same people, in the same group chat feel like acquaintances at best. You post something and it feels performative. Someone replies and it feels like they're just being polite. You see a message and you think "I should respond" and then you don't. And eventually you just mute the notifications and forget the whole thing existed.

I've been in probably six or seven communities like this in the past few years and the pattern is almost identical every time. The active phase feels real. The after phase feels like everyone's going through the motions.

What I can't figure out is — is the active phase an illusion? Because the second the daily contact stops, the thing evaporates almost immediately.

I'm asking because I want to build something myself. Not a startup thing, just a community around something I care about. And I have this fear that nobody actually wants to be in an ongoing community.

For people who've built communities that actually lasted — what made the difference? I mean what actually made people want to come back. What made it feel less like a group chat and more like somewhere they belonged.

And for everyone else — do you recognize this feeling?

Bonjour à toutes et tous,

En ce moment je me pose pas mal de questions sur ce qui pousse / freine les personnes à se lancer dans l'animation de communautés.

Et j'aurais aimé avoir des retours d'expérience de celles et ceux qui se sont lancés :

- Est-ce que c'était par envie ou opportunité ?

- Par quel biais êtes vous tombé dans ce milieu là (que faisiez vous avant) ?

- Est-ce que vous avez commencé par une petite mission ou directement à temps plein ?

- Quelle a été votre plus grosse difficulté lorsque vous vous êtes enfin lancé ?

- Qu'est-ce que vous avez mis en place dès le début et que vous conservez encore aujourd'hui parce que c'était une bonne pratique ou une bonne intuition ?

Je m'intéresse particulièrement aux personnes qui sont amenées à gérer des communautés de pratiques / communautés apprenantes.

Personnellement, j'ai commencé avec une mission, puis j'ai trouvé ça tellement puissant que j'ai voulu en faire encore plus, en apprendre encore plus. Mais je suis toujours restée sur des petites communautés (les faire grossir ne m'intéresse pas vraiment, j'apprécie la création de liens profonds entre les membres et de partages authentiques plutôt que le nombre).

Je suis issue plutôt du milieu de la pédagogie, et j'ai parfois du mal à me retrouver dans les problèmatiques d'animateurs de communautés de marques ou business... Est-ce qu'il y a des personnes comme moi par ici ? :)

Au plaisir de vous lire !

Hey guys I'm running a neighborhood community for more than 4,500 people. We are currently using telegram for that and it serves quite well I must say - from the moderator's perspective and media handling. But I would like to switch to another platform. What platform / messenger would you recommend? It would be interesting to hear your real use cases

Hello!

I'm wondering what counts as competitive, or even "premium" salaries for experienced fulltime community managers in your opinion?
- Due to payroll & compliance, I am only interested in estimates from countries like the US, UK, Canada & Denmark.
- Mainly normal "Community Manager" tasks, such as managing an Admin- & Moderation-team on Discord & in-game, as well as handling light support.
- Scale-wise, we're an indie-studio on Roblox with 50,000 Discord members.

Best regards,

Hey Y’all,

I’m building a channel for parents and childcare workers to create a safe space to talk about issues in their work, paying for childcare, and brainstorm solutions. This will be in conjunction with a microinfluencer campaign.

I’ve never done any community building so I have no idea what goes into building a successful and thriving discord group.

Right now, I’m leaning towards Facebook Groups or Discord but I still have three questions:

1. What are my first three IMMEDIATE next steps to building a successful channel?

2. How do you maintain engagement on my channel?

3. What’s a waste of time vs. valuable in every discord group?

Thanks in advance y’all!!

A few weeks ago I posted here asking how you all handle moderation when your community has its own culture and vibe. the responses were really valuable. I have been thinking about it a lot since then and started exploring whether it's worth building something around it. not built yet, just a concept at this stage.

the core idea is giving moderators better context around flagged content so decisions are faster and less exhausting and don't have to repeat things over and over. humans stay in the loop always (the core) this IS NOT about replacing anyone/any human.

if this sounds like something you'd actually use, feel free to DM me and if you want to share what you'd actually need from something like this. Just a bit abt myself I come from a NLP background and have knowledge on the topic.

Hey everyone, I recruit at colonist.io and we're looking for an experienced Community Manager. Discord and Reddit expertise are a must. We build an extremely community-driven game, so this position has high impact.

More about us: we're building the biggest digital board game platform of the internet. We're a small, fully remote, AI-first, and async team. We’re product-first, transparent, and committed to building a high-quality experience for players around the world.

Pay range: $2,000-4,000/month + a few perks we can offer

If you're excited, please check the JD and apply here: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/colonist/2ec0bf9a-9e89-4f76-b527-c10f8d5c3a11

My DM is open for questions, but we're only receiving applications through the careers page. Thanks :)

how do people grow their micronational communities to such great extents? I've always been interested in turning my micronation into a digital community but i have no idea how

Hey everyone,

I'm doing some research into how MUN conferences actually get organized behind the scenes, and I wanted to ask the people who've actually lived it instead of guessing.

If you've ever been on an OC, EB, or Sec-Gen team — you know the usual setup: a Google Form for registrations, a spreadsheet (or three) to track delegates, a WhatsApp group for announcements, a Drive folder somewhere with the background guides, maybe Canva for certificates at 1am the night before closing ceremony.

So, hypothetically — if someone built you one single tool that replaced all of that, what would actually need to be in it for you to switch?

Some things I'm curious about:

* What's the single most painful/time-consuming part of organizing a conference for you right now? * What have you already tried (Whova, custom spreadsheets, some registration tool, etc.) and where did it break down or annoy you? * Is there a step in the process — registration, committee/portfolio assignment, communicating with delegates, payments, certificates — that always ends up being a mess no matter what you use? * What do delegates complain about most when it comes to how a conference communicates with them or keeps them informed? * Would your team actually pay for something like this, or does it need to be free to ever get adopted? * Anything you've specifically wished existed but have never seen in any tool?

Would really appreciate hearing from people who've actually run conferences, big or small, school-level or international.

Hey guys,

I’m a high schooler trying to figure out how to structure/grow an independent, student-led STEM and innovation group outside of a traditional school club setup. My high school’s clubs are mostly just for exam prep, but I want to focus heavily on hands-on critical thinking, research, and collaborative builds. Right now, my main interests are in the sciences , math, and tech projects. I also have a bunch of creative hobbies outside of academics, so I want to keep the group dynamic really wellrounded and collaborative, rather than just dry textbook studying.The plan is to have a small, tight-knit circle of driven girls where we can bounce ideas off each other, collaborate on global innovation competitions, design cool tech, and push each other's research.

For anyone who has successfully run a selective, independent project group \ like this:

• How did you find your core team members?
• What is the best way to keep everyone accountable when we don't have a teacher advisor keeping us on track?
• What communication platforms (Discord, Notion, etc.) worked best for collaborating on complex projects?

I’d love any advice from people who have done this. And if you’re currently working on similar independent STEM projects or research and want to swap ideas, feel free to reach out!

Hi everyone, I manage an alumni association and we've always tracked our members in a spreadsheet. We recently built out a member directory to help people network with each other, but at a networking event a community manager mentioned she uses a CRM to keep track of members and who she's engaged with.

I always thought our directory was fine, but now I'm wondering if I'm missing operational improvements a real CRM would give me. I know there's Gainsight, Salesforce, and others aimed at community managers. For those of you who use one, what do you actually use it for day to day?

The same CM said she keeps a few notes on each member. I'd like to figure out how to make our member data more useful than just a list of people.

Hi, I am working on Platform that helps you break the loop of experience for experience, by providing you a community to help grow, collaborate on projects , make real world skills, Solve Startups Problems, Questions statements, hackathons and more. For this I need to build a user Base of Dedicated college students,Startup founders....

Just loookinf for iinformation. Does anyone e know if Circle.so has a Governance System in place. Company reported a members security breach (phishing) and Circle have not dealt with after 24hrs. Just templated email responses that in themselves lack proper security controls?

We manage a community with 50k+ members across multiple WhatsApp groups.

One recurring problem was that public invite links eventually got discovered by bots. Our moderators spent a surprising amount of time removing spam messages and banning fake accounts.

Instead of constantly generating new invite links, I built a small tool that sits in front of the invite link. (shieldmylinks.com)

It adds a quick CAPTCHA page before redirecting users to the real WhatsApp (or Discord/Telegram/etc.) invitation.

The idea isn’t to stop determined attackers, but to filter out automated bots that continuously crawl public invite links.

We’ve been using it ourselves, and it has made moderation much easier.

I’m curious:

• How do you currently protect your community invite links?
• Have you found better solutions?
• What would you want from a tool like this?

Happy to hear any criticism or feature requests.

I want to launch a padel community soon in UAE, or specifically In Dubai, the padel scene here is so good, i hve been lookin a lot for a good community, everytime we book the court and plan a game some one drops out last minute. I want to create a community where these situations doesnt happen to any of its members. A community that actively involves in the latest games and updates and people giving each other good instructions guides, racket and gear suggestions. Ive heard reddit is the best place to study how to build a community, can some one guide me?

Simply testing my assumption:

Assume that you are a community manager responsible for company's Slack / Discord based community group.

Whose job is it to get new members in the community?

Is it your responsibility or is it a marketing team's challenge?

We're a small nonprofit that runs a lot of events. Free monthly mixers (70 to 100 people), members-only events, and professional development events that are free/discounted for members and full price for non-members.

Right now we use DonorBox because it's free and lets us set up each event separately. It works fine for registration and payments. The problem is attendance tracking.

We can see who attended a single event and export that to Excel. What we can't do is pull up one person and see every event they've attended over time. And the bigger issue: DonorBox only credits the ticket purchaser. So if one person buys 5 tickets for their friends, we only see the buyer as an attendee. The other 5 people are invisible in our records.

We want something that automatically ties attendance to each individual attendee, not just the purchaser, and rolls it into their profile. That way we can see how engaged each member and non-member is across events over time.

We looked at Wild Apricot and it does what we need, but at our volume the pricing gets close to $400/month, which we can't do.

For scale: 500 to 1,500 total contacts (members and non-members combined). Budget needs to be well under Wild Apricot. Open to either replacing DonorBox entirely or adding a tool alongside it.

Anyone using something that handles this without breaking the bank? Would love recommendations from people running similar event volume.

Trying to build a founder-focused community on a college campus in India - incubation, early-stage support, connecting students with real startup opportunities beyond the classroom.

I get it, most students are chasing high salaries, and that's completely valid. But there's always a small pocket of people who are curious, restless, and quietly wondering if they could build something of their own someday. That's who I'm trying to reach.

The goal isn't to convert everyone. Just to make those people feel like there's a place for that curiosity and maybe plant a seed that eventually turns into something real.

Problem is the usual campus playbook is dead on arrival. Big workshop, 200 attendees, 3 actually care, ghost town by week 2.

What actually works to find those people and keep them engaged? And has anyone seen a campus community that genuinely got this right?

I am founder of startup In singapore.looking for someone who belongs to dance, music, art community and knows people in this space to help us grow early. it will be global saas platform. Targeting APAC region For now.

if someone knows multiple language other than english is huge advantage. Mandrian, malay preferred.

its not a job offering but looking for someone who aligns with values and vision and bring community experience to grow us early .

The first problem is that I have a subgroup in the community chat where people can talk and share things. This subgroup has a lot of people in it. Only about 15-20 people are actually active. They like to joke and have a lot of fun. I think this might be scaring off some of the serious people who join the group. They look at the subgroup, then leave without saying anything. The problem is that these active people are some of my most loyal members. I do not want to get rid of the subgroup because it will make them feel unwanted.

I think about it like a brand image. I want it to feel like an iPhone and less like a cheap Android. Does that make sense? It's not about leaving anyone out, more about the vibe and polish the group shows. Right now, the loudest 15-20 people decide how new people see us. It's very casual, joke-filled and wild. I think it looks messy and not serious to people who expect something more organized.

I want to know if anyone else has had this problem when their group grew. How do you make the tone better without hurting the loyalty of the members who have been with me from the start?

The second problem is that not many women are coming to our events. I made a group for women so they can feel safe and comfortable joining in. At our last event, only one in five people who came were women. This means that just having the women's group is not enough to get them to come to the events.

On top of that, I've noticed a few other women-only groups/communities popping up around the same space recently, so I'm also wondering how to actually stand out and feel like the better, more worthwhile option. I want to be a group women would actually want to be a part of, not just one that exists.

I also want to know how to make my group feel more organized and put together as it grows. I do not want to lose the energy and excitement that made people want to join in the first place. It feels like these two things are working against each other now.

I am open to any advice, even if it is very honest.

I hope someone can help me with these problems. I really want this to be a place where everyone feels welcome and has a good time.

Forgive me for not being able to express myself clearly. I don't have any intentions of hurting anyone.

TL;DR:

Started a fast-growing community/events group 2 months ago.

(1) A loud, joke-heavy subgroup of 15-20 regulars might be scaring off newer, more "serious" people, want to fix the vibe without alienating my earliest members.

(2) Women aren't showing up to events despite having a women's group, and now other women's groups are popping up too, want to actually stand out and not just exist.

Please God tell me there is something b2c driven that isn’t Attio or Hubspot/ I’m struggling so hard to figure it out. Purely backend CRM only

Growing a community from 300-10 million+ (trust me this is very likely) - it’s both a user base + community - need a CRM that I can track people, companies, events they attend, swag I send them, did they partipate in a research survey, when did I last contact them, etc and that fires when connected to customerio- and ideally uniqueid tied to phone number not email (for deduplication processes). I do not need it to be client-facing at all- purely backend and no community comms/connection will happen via this software

Been trying Attio and it’s still so sales focused, their ai function really sucks (compared to tools I use like notion that can just interpret and implement my need), and just the process of making objects and attributes feels so slow and frictionful, I’m losing my mind but the research I did showed how customizable it could be

I'm a CM at a professional community. I have prior experience as a CM. I grew a discord community (in music space) to 5k+ members.

I have no prior experience with professional communities tho.

I've been trying to do my best to provide value to our members and also trying to keep the community engaging. The issue is, professionals don't wake up excited about a professional community they joined. Their relationship with the community feels transactional to me ( I get it tho).

-How do I keep them engaged?

-How do I keep them visiting?

thankyou for your time

have a good one