reCAPTCHA, developed by Google has been at the forefront of bot mitigation for over a decade and actively protects data for millions of sites.
The technology uses an advanced risk analysis engine and adaptive challenges to keep malicious software from engaging in abusive activities on your website. Meanwhile, legitimate users will be able to log in, view pages, or create accounts and fake users will be blocked.
Admins can install the reCAPTCHA app in their community.
To enable reCAPTCHA v2 on a custom domain, you have to register your site and insert your public and private key within the Tribe's reCAPTCHA app settings.
By enabling the reCAPTCHA app, new users would need to pass reCAPTCHA to create a new account. This will prevent spam accounts to be created on your Tribe.
Private messaging in online communities is one of the key features to add a social layer for personal conversations and enable members to build stronger networks.
Private messaging in Tribe communities
The Messages app in Tribe offers a real-time and chat-like experience to the members for a private conversation. Once enabled, the messaging icon will appear right next to the notification bell. Members can also initiate a conversation by directly clicking on the "Message" button from a member profile.
Admins can decide to enable or disable the messages app for their community.
Given below are a list of enhancements for the Messages app that will be released in the following updates:
Report a conversation or message
Email notification and slack integration
Block/unblock a user from sending messages
Send images as messages
Attach files to messages
Displaying link thumbnails
Group messages
Real-time "typing" state when a member is typing
Global status indicator (online, offline, custom)
Better privacy settings to enable or disable message requests
Archive conversations
Admin analytics
Read receipts
We are very excited to release the first version of messaging app as this has been one of the most popular requests of our tribe community owners. Feel free to share your thoughts, request for an enhancement or report concerns.
Tribe offers a host of notification tools to ensure that your Tribe community can reach the members irrespective of the channel. And one of the critical channels to reach people is messaging apps.
With Slack Tribe Bot App, members, admins and moderators can stay up to date on all of the community notifications in Slack. Tribe Bot would start posting community notifications for the member and attach the specific link for the activity so the members can easily go back to the community.
Connecting with Slack
Once enabled, members, admins and moderators can stay up to date on all of the community notifications in Slack with the Tribe Bot app.
Introducing the all-new moderation panel. A place to have a 360 view of items that require your attention to keep your community healthy.
Approve new member requests. archive reported posts by other members and allow pending posts to get published. All in one panel.
What problems have been addressed?
It used to be that moderators did not have access to the moderation tools (the irony) within the admin panel due to access level. Now both admin and moderators can manage their respective groups.
The tools and settings were scattered around the admin panel which made it very hard to find.
There was no way to find pending items unless you check the admin panel or spot them in the feed.
To learn more about this feature, please check out this link.
The above items are all now resolved. New features will get improved iteratively based on your feedback. Check the new moderation panel (directly accessible from the profile dropdown) and let us know what you think and how it could get better. 🤘
Starting today, all of your page URLs, including the existing and new ones are all automatically converted to keyword-rich web addresses and optimized for SEO.
The old unfriendly URLs are all working and functional so you do not need to worry about links being broken. They all get redirected to the new friendly and SEO optimized URLs.
Getting your community page slug structure right for customers and search engines is essential and we understand how important this is to meet the needs of users and searchers.
We have done extensive research to make sure we are implementing the best practices. We hope you enjoy this new update. expect to see some improvement in your SEO score soon 😉
How does it work?
The URL gets generated based on the first 75 characters of the content. replacing spaces with dashes and supports english characters from A to Z following the unique hash ID of the post.
What about non-english content?
If a non-english character is being used, It will convert and match it to an equivalent of an english character.
What if a post gets edited?
If a post gets edited, the URL will also get updated with the new content, redirecting the old URL to the new one to make sure nothing will be broken.
Can admins manually change the slug?
Yes. admins and moderators, on any paid plan, can install the SEO boost app. It will supercharge their capabilities to edit the slug, add or edit title, description, and image meta tags of each specific post along with other options.
We are excited to announce that the Zapier integration version 2.0 is now live!
1. Connect your tribe. community to Zapier using a single API key
It is now drastically easier to use Zapier with no complicated process or third-party credentials.
2. Add/Remove members to public, private, or secret groups
This was a huge blocker for creators and coaches who wanted to give selective access based on what the member has subscribed to.
3. New content triggers
An ability to filter content based on the types available within your community with support for keyword-based filtering.
4. Search and Find
Filter specific content based on their type or using keywords. Find members via Username, Title, Name, ID, and Email.
5. Custom Messages
Add your custom welcome messages to user invitations and invite multiple users at once.
6. Consistent naming
Terminologies are now more convenient and aligned with the community.
And a lot more improvements.
We are very excited about this new update as it takes the capability of your community to the next level. We highly encourage you to check the new updates on Zapier apps
We have also seen very exciting use-cases by the member of other communities such as
Performing sentiment analysis of the posts with MonkeyLearn (or any other text mining tool)
Using a tool like Mention to get notifications when content with certain keywords gets posted and save that in a Google Sheet
Posting Eventbrite or meetup events in the community
Send OneSignal push notifications when new content is posted
Creating a Trello card when someone posts in a group dedicated to featuring suggestions
We love to hear how you are using Zapier integration with your tribe. So please do not hesitate to share it with us and the rest of the members.
We’ve launched a new feature for admins to better understand what’s happening behind the scene to the email notifications, firebase notifications, and Webhooks.
Since above tasks usually happen in background, previously, there was no way for admins to figure out what’s the status of these tasks. For instance, if admins hit their SendGrid credit limit, or their Firebase credentials were wrong there was no way for them to look and see the result of the communication with these services.
Now, by going to /admin/jobs in your community (while logged in as admin) You'll be able to see exactly what happened on the background, if the result was error or success, and some more details about it.
We’ve also added buttons to these logs at the right places. For instance in Webhooks app, firebase app, and Sendgrid app, we now show a “Activity Logs” button. We’ve added this button to user’s invitation page as well.
