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Frond 2.0 — More open, public and improved
Frond is a refreshingly simple take on forums. Growing your community here is effortless, fun, and free to start.
Today we are launching Public Communities and a bundle of new features, which make Frond the easiest way to start any type of community. 🐣
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@jans
Hi, went to Frond 2.0- very quick and easy to register and get your question answered promptly. Great job👍.
@sentry_co Yes, sort of exactly! :) Now that we are supporting public communities, we'll be sharing examples over the coming weeks. Make sure to join our customer community to stay in the loop!
Congrats on the launch! 🎉 Looks exciting! We're trying to reach a broader audience with Blocks, our email builder, so will check it out for sure
@darya_antonyuk Thank you, Darya! Sounds exciting! Looking forward to having Blocks on Frond.
@darya_antonyuk @link_m Great to hear, Darya! Give us a shout if you need help setting things up with Frond!
Excellent job. I like it how one can create a ready-to-go community at the speed of light. Great UI and UX, no jargons, well thought templates. It's only natural, for me, to support and rate it high.
@igorboky Thanks, Igor! Yes, we're committed to going open source. Read more about that on our blog post here (https://frond.com/frond/post/115...). But yes, that is the goal - you will be able to self-host Frond.
@igorboky We've committed to going open source (we have a little work to do on the codebase), but yes after that you'll be able to self host! You can read more about that here: https://frond.com/frond/post/115...
We love Frond 2.0! UX and UI are impeccable and it feels amazing to work with a firm that is so radically customer focussed like these guys. The truly listen and that is really rare. Chapeau!!
Seems interesting, but I'll be honest: I'd put the open communities themselves at the front, before any registrations or sign up forms. This way you kinda replicate the successful Reddit formula, but with a more personal twist.
Let the communities do the promotion for you, and either way - congrats with the launch and I wish you reaching the stars quicker - I LOVE some of the design choices you've made in the community management screen itself.
@soomie Good thinking, Vlad. Now that we've launched public communities, we'll likely promote these more, just like you're suggesting! Thanks so much for the support!
@sandradjajic We're adding languages as they're requested by our users, likely Italian and Portuguese being the next ones. Which language would you like us to support?
Congrats, @jans and team! I'm a community builder primarily for audiences concerned with security and privacy. One suggestion would be to adjust your privacy policy for certain membership levels who do not want data shared with third-parties, or make this something entire communities can opt out of. Good luck, and appreciate how easy your privacy policy is to read!
@itspatzer That's a really great idea, Martha! And thanks so much for the support!
@huy_doan_quang Let us know if there's something you're missing and you'd like to see, after giving Frond a try!
So it's basically Slack without all the clusterfuck present there. Also curious why limit members to 50 on the free plan? Won't it kind of decrease usability for small creators and reduce the adoption rate?
@vishalreddy21 That's right! We've put a lot of effort into fixing some of the issues with Slack for larger communities. We've found that 50 members is enough to get started for a lot of creators – and we're also a small startup that needs revenue to keep the servers running. :)
Hey Frond Team!
Wow, looks like you guys have been putting in the work! As someone who’s big on creating engaging content (over at Videodeck we're all about making rad videos for SaaS companies 😄), I can totally see the value in having communities that are more open and searchable. It's a game-changer for discoverability! Direct messaging and pretty URLs are the cherry on top. I'm definitely intrigued to see how these features play out. Cheers to building vibrant communities!
Congratulations on the launch. It looks really impressive. How is it better than FB private groups?
Amazing product 👏 it's great to see your changelog and roadmap presented in such an open format - adds to the trusted/ transparent community element 🙌 I can see myself using this
@jackypan1989 Thanks, great to hear! We're excited to see what public communities will be grown on Frond in the future!
@jackypan1989 Love to hear this. Keep in touch and let us know what you think!
Congrats on the the Front 2.0 launch @jans! 🚀
My co-founder and I have been interested in building a community for users of our product. However, managing engagement and moderation seems time-consuming and difficult, given our limited bandwidth.
A couple of questions:
1. Are there plans to incorporate AI-driven features to facilitate engagement and community moderation?
2. One of my biggest obstacles in joining a new community or forum is creating an account and learning how to use another product, compared to joining Slack, Reddit, etc. How do you envision overcoming this potential friction?
Best of luck with the venture!
@jans @mariakova Hey Maria! We are working on some AI powered features right now that help community leaders build engagement, so stay tuned. We've tried to make the product even simpler to use and pickup as Slack / Reddit / Discord, but if we're always looking for ways to improve if you've got any feedback!
Frond dev team is very hardworking. Since Launch of the product, I am receiving continuously product new features updates. The Frond 2.0 version is a direct evidence how dev team is sincerely hardworking behind this awesome product.
It looks very promising, I love it! My congrats, upvoted! Good luck, guys!
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