Ask HN: Best platform to create a private community for 100-200 people?

Posted by foundersgrid on Sunday July 10, 2016 @04:41AM
from the ask-hn dept.

I want to create a private community for 100 or so others. Right now we are using Telegram with 10 members, which is working great, but I can see you'll run into some limitations soon, especially around search.

Any suggestions you have, would be great. Thanks!

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Re:Ask HN: Best platform to create a private community for 1... by webtechgal on Sunday July 10, 2016 @05:47AM (#12065096)

'Best platform' is a very broad term. Best in what way? In terms of ease of creation/coding? In terms of features/stability/reliability/scalability? Or what?

Be that as it may, if you're willing to explore the CMS route, I can vouch for WordPress with BuddyPress (and a handful of other) plug-ins. Proven, stable, feature-rich, quick to deploy etc. I'd say definitely worth checking out.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/buddypress/

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Re:Ask HN: Best platform to create a private community for 1... by MegaLeon on Monday July 11, 2016 @05:38AM (#12069907)

There's also Telescope http://www.telescopeapp.org/ if you want to build something more like a reddit-style community

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Re:Ask HN: Best platform to create a private community for 1... by cocoflunchy on Sunday July 10, 2016 @04:45AM (#12064986)

Have you tried Slack or Discord? It really depends on the features you want to have and what you mean by "community"... Maybe take a look at Discourse too.

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Re:Ask HN: Best platform to create a private community for 1... by hitr on Sunday July 10, 2016 @05:55AM (#12065106)

If you are looking for hn or stackoverflow like community with moderation built in,take a look at discourse. I have used it and really like it.

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