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The good , the bad and the ugly?
Sorry, can't help it with 'The Ugly' to complete the phrase, but overall we have had a satisfying journey using Beam.gg that it is fully functional albeit with some minor tweaks which will make the community forum more exciting.
PS: I'm a person with OCD so I'm looking at clean-ness of the user interface and platform management aspects of Beam.gg.
Let's start with the bad first:
1. There are only 8 Accent Color to choose from the Branding, but I believe the awesome team can enable a colour map for users to choose their desired colors in # (Hex) code.
2. Loading speed is fast, but can be better
3. Subforum AND Post Category - once created can only be achieved and cannot be deleted?
4. Enable more 'standard' or universal emojis rather than the purple beam emoji.
5. Subdomain of beam.gg cannot be changed after it has been first registered.
6. More integrations especially to Pabbly Connect would be awesome with certain triggers or action.
Then the good parts of Beam.gg:
1. Gamification of communities can encourage members to be more engaged!
2. Dark mode - Coming soon!
3. Interesting Analytics - Can be further improved i.e. top 5 hot topics (posts), members etc
4. Able to switch the sub-forum to public or private mode.
5. Comes with custom email branding
6. Mobile app - Coming soon!
Guess I have summed up the points that we have used it throughout the past weeks!
Good luck to the dev team and keep going. Don't let your early adopters down.
Jazz_Beamgg
May 9, 2024Hey there, thanks so much for the great review and suggestions! We appreciate anyone who takes the time to write us a message and provide us with very much needed feedabck!
1. We'll be adding more customization and colors options soon, you'll be able to choose a color that matches your brand more accurately.
2. Loading speeds are not quite where we want right now, and we're working on improving things! Stay tuned for updates on that!
3. As of now you can only hide a subforum or category, which means users won't be able to see and create new posts under them once they are hidden. But we'll see if we can make improvements to that.
4. That is a good suggestion! As of now you could manually add an emoji to the custom reactions if your plan has access to it.
5. At the moment you cannot change your beam.gg subdomain, but you can connect a custom domain at any time!
6. We'll add more integrations and they can be voted on our new Roadmap! https://beam.gg/roadmap .
Thanks again for leaving us an insightful review, we hope to make the experience even better moving forward!!