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Jan Senderek

Frond 2.0 - More open, public and improved

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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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Jan Senderek
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You asked for communities to be more open, public, and searchable – and we listened. We’re proud to introduce Frond 2.0, which now offers public communities. With public communities, visitors can view all groups and content without having to sign into Frond, offering greater visibility into your community. This not only improves discoverability but also promotes conversion from visitors to active members. Plus, your community content can now be indexed by search engines. While public communities are the major highlight, they are just one of the numerous features we've been busy building: - Direct messaging for 1:1 communication - Search capabilities - Advanced community permissions - Private groups - Polls, roles, and pretty community URLs - Pinned posts to highlight important content - Activity digests to keep your community updated - Welcome posts and member introductions - Community insights dashboard - Rich commenting - Localization in German, Spanish, French, and English - Plus approximately 858 other improvements and fixes For those of you who have previously tried Frond, we'd be thrilled if you gave us another try. Our product has seen significant advancements since we launched the first Beta, and we’re confident you’ll appreciate the changes. In case you missed it, we announced last week that we are open-sourcing Frond – underscoring our belief in the power of community and user autonomy. You can read our announcement at: https://bit.ly/frond-open-source Your feedback is the cornerstone of our progress. If you have any thoughts, queries, or suggestions, please let us know, or better yet, join our customer community at https://frond.com/frond and share it with everyone. We’re always eager to hear from you. Thank you for being a part of our journey. Together, let's build stronger, more vibrant communities! The Frond Team
Antoni Kozelski
@jans Hi, went to Frond 2.0- very quick and easy to register and get your question answered promptly. Great job👍.
Jan Senderek
Maker
@antonikozelski Thanks, Antoni! Glad to hear~
Shailendra Srivastava
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.
Jan Senderek
Maker
@k84shailendra Glad to have you part of our journey, Shailendra!!
Nikolai Stosch
@k84shailendra Thanks for your recognition 🙏
Corwin Crownover
Maker
@k84shailendra 🩵🙏🏼
Julian Philipp Nagel
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!!
Jan Senderek
Maker
@jpnagel Thanks, Julian! Appreciate the kind words and support!!
Nikolai Stosch
@jpnagel This means a lot to us, thank you for your feedback! 🙏
Darya Antonyuk
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
Matthias Link
Maker
@darya_antonyuk Thank you, Darya! Sounds exciting! Looking forward to having Blocks on Frond.
Jan Senderek
Maker
@darya_antonyuk @link_m Great to hear, Darya! Give us a shout if you need help setting things up with Frond!
André J
So it's a forum as a service? Sort of? I'm curious: Any examples of popular communities using this out there?
Jan Senderek
Maker
@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!
Israt Jahan
Congrats on your launch. The product seems amazing.
Jan Senderek
Maker
@isratjahan17 Thanks, Israt! 🙏
Israt Jahan
@jans You are welcome.
Matthew Blackshaw
Maker
@isratjahan17 Thank you!!
Fabio Salvadori
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.
Jan Senderek
Maker
@fabiosalvadori Thanks so much for the support, Fabio! Glad you’re liking Frond!!
Fabio Salvadori
@jans How can I reach you? Are you active on Linkedin?
Jan Senderek
Maker
@fabiosalvadori I have a profile on LinkedIn, yes! Feel free to DM me!
Igor Boky
Congrats on the launch! I really in love with UI you made! As I understand it is open sourced, so I can host it mu own machine if I need for any size of community?
Jan Senderek
Maker
@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.
Matthew Blackshaw
Maker
@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...
Huy Doan
Congrats guys on the launch! Like the idea and definitely try it later!
Matthias Link
Maker
@huy_doan_quang Thank you for the support, Huy!
Jan Senderek
Maker
Nikolai Stosch
@huy_doan_quang Let us know if there's something you're missing and you'd like to see, after giving Frond a try!
Steven Roennfeldt
I stumbled across Frond a week ago after searching for a community platform for waaaaay too long. Great functionality, awesome features on the roadmap and the team are very responsive and open to feedback. I’m extremely happy with my choice to use Frond moving forward.
Jan Senderek
Maker
@steven_roennfeldt Thanks so much for the support, Steve! Can't wait to see what you'll do with Frond for your Youtube channel!
Nikolai Stosch
@steven_roennfeldt Thank you, Steve!! You're feedback and enthusiasm is contagious, thank you so much. We're very excited to see you on Frond! 🍸🙏
Mahin Makkhy
Thanks for launching the version 2.0. Best of luck.
Jan Senderek
Maker
@mahin_makkhy Thanks, Mahin! Appreciate it!
Mahin Makkhy
@jans You are welcome.
Matthew Blackshaw
Maker
@mahin_makkhy Cheers, thank you!
Martha Patzer
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!
Jan Senderek
Maker
@itspatzer That's a really great idea, Martha! And thanks so much for the support!
Nikolai Stosch
@itspatzer Thanks for your suggestion!
Vlad Volianskyi
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.
Jan Senderek
Maker
@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!
Nikolai Stosch
@soomie Great suggestion here, thanks for sharing! 🙏
Peter Johnson
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
Nikolai Stosch
@pajination Thank you, Peter! 😊 Hope to see you on Frond.
Nick Anisimov
It looks very promising, I love it! My congrats, upvoted! Good luck, guys!
Jan Senderek
Maker
@nickanisimov Thanks, really appreciate the support, Nick!
Vishal Reddy
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?
Matthew Blackshaw
Maker
@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. :)
Dimitrios Ploutarchos
Love it!
Jan Senderek
Maker
@dimitriosp 🙏🙏🙏
Halina Makeeva | Parsers VC
Congrats on the launch! This is looking super good.
Jan Senderek
Maker
@halina_makeeva Thanks, Halina. Appreciate it! And good luck with your upcoming launch!
Matthew Blackshaw
Maker
@halina_makeeva Thank you!!
yaniv zisano
can i use my domain and host it on private server (including code)?
Jan Senderek
Maker
@yaniv_zisano Not quite yet but we're committed to making Frond open source. Stay in the loop on our progress by joining our customer community!
Sandra Djajic
What languages will you expand on firstly? Congratulations on the launch :)
Jan Senderek
Maker
@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?