Core features to consider
when building own social network
Member profiles
Member profiles are critical for storing the user's data, displaying the activities inside the
social network, content contribution, and make the user discoverable for networking.
Activity feed
Activity feed is important to keep the members informed about what's happening inside the site.
Members can interact with the content (comments, upvotes, follow, etc.) based on interest.
Groups
Groups help you categorize content and foster connection between members with
a shared passion. Hence, groups acts as one of the key channels for new member discovery.
Content organization
The user-generated content inside the social network must be categorized for
efficient search. Also, the community layout must be customized to showcase the relevant content.
Data import and export
You must own the data generated in the community. That's why your social network must allow you
to easily import and export all the data. Consider exporting members and content for advanced analysis.
Content types
Your social network should allow members to create one or two types of content at the very least.
This content can Q&A, polls, short-updates exactly like Facebook or long-form articles like Medium.
Gamification
Gamification plays a key role in keeping members engaged and motivating them. For instance, you
should have the mechanism to boost the reputation score of members based on good quality contribution.
Moderation
Keeping the social network free of spam and negative elements ensures that other members feel safe.
Also, members should be empowered to report issues and the community guidelines must be enforceable.
Networking
There would be different types of networking -- a member might simply follow another member or form
two members might form a mutual friendship. The network might have public membership or invite-only membership.
Reporting and analytics
It is important to keep track of the community health and get insights on the member behavior at a
granular level. Ensure that your social network offers the capability to measure the key metrics.
Notification tools
There must be a robust tool to keep the members updated about the important activities in the
community and their profile. Notifications can be sent via email, inside the site, messaging apps, and more.
Integration and automation
Your social network site must integrate with other popular third-party tools and expose a comprehensive
API to build any kind of customization for smooth data transfer and process automation.
Comparison of solutions available
for building a social network like Facebook.
SaaS
Self-hosted
CMS+Plugin
Custom-built solution
Customizability
Low to high
Medium to high
Medium to high
High
Cost
Low to medium
Medium
Low to medium
Very high
Time to market
Very low
Low to medium
Low to medium
High
Technical expertise needed
Low to medium
Medium to high
Medium to high
Very High
Data export
Available
Available
Available
Available
Security threat
Low
High
Very high
Low
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Why Tribe is the leading platform
for building social media sites like Facebook
Hosting and technical maintenance
Since the Tribe Platform is a cloud-based solution, as a community builder you don’t have to worry about the
hosting and technical details such as software maintenance, upgrades, database, etc. All you have to do
is work on growing and moderating your community.
Customizable community platform
Tribe offers a fully customizable community platform that can be customized by selecting and showcasing
different components of the community exactly the way you need. It can also completely adopt your brand
guidelines to a pixel via CSS changes.
Machine-learned activity feed
Tribe offers a sophisticated and AI-driven activity feed that continuously learns from the member activity
and behavior. This helps you deliver personalized content to the community members, boosts the engagement
rate, and makes your community sticky.
Pricing
Tribe offers a forever free plan without any restrictions on the number of members and content. It also
allows you to point your own custom domain. The premium plan unlocks additional features such as enterprise-grade
SSO, priority support and advanced apps.
Apps and API
Tribe’s community solution has been built with a vibrant ecosystem of apps and API that work together to extend
the functionality of the core platform. There are 20+ built-in integrations with leading third-party tools to
automate data flow and automate the existing process.
Data ownership
Any social network powered by Tribe completely owns the data as well. As a community owner, you can always
export any content or member data. Many of our clients are already performing advanced text analytics on the
user-generated content.
Modern design
Social networks powered by Tribe come with a beautiful and modern design that is based on modern user behavior
and familiar features of social media. It can be completely customized according to your brand guidelines --
right from logo and color combinations to intricate CSS modifications.
Gamification
Tribe delivers configurable reputation management system with leaderboards, badges, and points to help you
execute various gamification tactics. Also, the virtual currency system helps you influence member behavior
by directly offering incentives.
Automated moderation
Tribe has powerful moderation functionality -- it allows you to blacklist list keywords and automatically puts
the content with such keyword in the moderation queue. You can also define a minimum reputation score to allow members
to post content. Of course, the members can always report any inappropriate content.
Integration in the buyer lifecycle
Based on the community flywheel concept, Tribe offers embeddable widgets that can be used to add different
elements (e.g., discussions) of the community inside any other product or website. This helps add community
touchpoints across the buyer lifecycle and improve customer experience.
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Modern design for modern users
Tribe’s design philosophy is based on personalized and rich activity
feed suitable for new-age social media.
Deliver immersive social experience right inside your product or
website with widgets. Some of the prominent examples can be enabling
user engagement under the listings, inspiring the members to share
feedback and discovery of new products.
Tribe offers some of the most compelling modern apps such as
incentivization system via virtual currency that can be used to get
desired user action, easy user management, and powerful analytics.
Tribe is a white-label platform. You can customize the platform to build any kind of community and
change the design exactly based on the brand guidelines.
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