SC36DC Posted April 21, 2020 Share Posted April 21, 2020 (edited) CLUBS When I asked a few people on my forum about the use of CLUBS, one friend stated how he didn't think it should be used. To him it would just be segregating content from the main forum. Why create a club about a certain topic, when a thread could just be created on the forum. I know of the following thread, and read through it, but would love to hear some fresh insight on this topic. BLOGS Do you use Blogs on your forum? Do you use it for yourself, do you let forum members create their own blogs, and if so, do they actually use it? Again, just like CLUBS, why create a blog and talk about a topic when you could just create a thread on the forum and discuss it there? I would love to hear your thoughts on this. Not sure if I should invest in getting this last piece that I am missing from the IPS tools. Edited April 21, 2020 by SC36DC sobrenome 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sheffielder Posted April 21, 2020 Share Posted April 21, 2020 I don't use either. I get what your member was saying about the clubs thing. If your forum relies on keeping traffic moving through threads it seems strange to take some of the talk away into a club SC36DC 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WP V0RT3X Posted April 22, 2020 Share Posted April 22, 2020 (edited) I use clubs (a lot) but have found no use for blogs on one of the sites I maintain. But I think for some communities it's of course a great feature. Edited April 22, 2020 by OliverKapunkt typo SC36DC 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joel R Posted April 22, 2020 Share Posted April 22, 2020 (edited) On 4/21/2020 at 12:22 AM, SC36DC said: When I asked a few people on my forum about the use of CLUBS, one friend stated how he didn't think it should be used. To him it would just be segregating content from the main forum. Why create a club about a certain topic, when a thread could just be created on the forum. FeveBee wrote an article about this on Sunday 19 Apr 2020 with several useful pointers: https://www.feverbee.com/launching-groups/ The same thinking applies to Blogs. Do you have a need for Blogs? If not, then don't worry about it. Edited April 22, 2020 by Joel R SC36DC 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SC36DC Posted April 22, 2020 Author Share Posted April 22, 2020 (edited) 3 hours ago, Joel R said: FeveBee wrote an article about this on Sunday 19 Apr 2020 with several useful pointers: https://www.feverbee.com/launching-groups/ Thank you for the info and link, I'm going to check it out now. UPDATE: After reading the article, it convinced me to deactivate the Clubs option for now. Edited April 22, 2020 by SC36DC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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