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Zoom meeting recordings no longer valid
Hey there, we recently had a staff member who was big in the community leave. With their departure, all the zoom links that were housed on Zoom's cloud are gone - note to self, download your meetings to the computer! At any rate, there are 100s of posts that will either need to be edited or deleted. I'm curious if anyone…
Gating the entire community
Does anyone gate their entire community? i.e. you can't see any community content unless you're signed in? Is there any reason NOT to do this?
Can you show just the homepage and gate everything else?
I'm wondering if I can configure permissions so that guests, unconfirmed and applicants can see the homepage of our community, but if they click anything they are prompted to sign in/register
What are your community KPIs?
Howdy folks - Wondering what some of your community KPIs are? Looking for examples to compare with ours and to get new ideas!
Featured collections widget in categories
Can you add the featured collections widget to a category page? We have a category in our community that houses templates and I'd like to feature 3 collections of the specific template discussions at the top of the page. Below is a very (very) crude mock-up of what I'd like to do. This is on the homepage of our staging…
Product ideas/feature requests in community 🧐
Hi all, I'm looking into adding a product idea section to our community. We're using our community as part of our scaled CS motion. So basically this would give customers in that segment a way to surface feature requests since the traditional way would be directly to a CSM. I'm curious how other teams manage these…

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