I'm going over the blog where you give the comparison of each. I'm a little confused by this section (will copy/paste). When you say "no broadcasting" but then yes to "video room"...what is the difference? "❌ No broadcasting ✅ Live rooms (can have just a voice room or a video room) on all plans Heartbeat has a video conferencing tool. (Multiple people on a video call):
Broadcasting I consider to be a feature where one speaker is being broadcasted to an audience, but you can't see other people's videos. Like a LinkedIn live or FB Live. Video rooms are where you and others join live on video.
The Discovery Feed in Mighty Networks has a TH-cam Video thumbnail feel to me. That is probably a good thing if the community you are attracting is a regular TH-cam user. Thank you for sharing your thought process as you compared the platforms. It is helping to inform my decision. It's hard because each platform has unique features that can make a difference.
It is a tough decision, but I'm glad this helped give you a taste of each! And that's was a great callout - Mighty Networks has certainly been known to be the most accessible visually in the past. They really stayed away from a straight text format which made them really appealing visually.
Bri, I so appreciate your perspective. MN may better suited to new communities. I appreciate your perspective on Circle and Heartbeat. Those two seem to be community-first platforms like MN is. Thank you for the note on how MN used to be insufferable. MN may fully facilitate full menu build out in the left sidebar. Allowing for a page (feature) within a space is essential for creating an explainer and intro for the space. Please let me know if you have compared platforms for mobile/app. MN seems to do a good job for that. Oversimplification on desktop may contribute to the ease in mobile. I need to watch your video at regular speed to see if you were accidentally clicking on manage and that is why you ended up in unexpected places.
Haha, happy to help! Definitely having that page feature is a huge bonus. I do like the customizability of it! I haven't yet compared their mobile/app, but that would be a great follow up to this :)
Yes, the discover feature is confusing. It can work well as the first tab in a space, but it lacks a way to better greet the user and help guide them through the UX. As for onboarding, MN's Welcome Checklist is interesting but still seems lacking. I'm fully onboard with MN for my communities and those I will launch and maintain for clients. Still, MN's community has failed to fully engage me.
Thanks for the feedback, Dru! I'm glad it's been a good platform for you - I know I nit pick a little bit on things, but overall I'm glad your community is having a good experience there! There's definitely ways to use the layout to your advantage.
I really like so much about heatwave. But not being able to broadcast is a hard no for me unfortunately. I'm kind of surprised that a platform this good doesn’t have this when it is pretty much standard in every community platform I've researched. Even the free Band App has broadcasting. It would be perfect when it get's that. Until then, I guess I'll start with Circle.
hey how about doing lms courses on heartbeat app.. uploading pre recorded content and pdfs as a course and how good is the security of locking the content from copying. does it has a LMS integrated like circle ?
It does, Heartbeat has a courses feature and I think it works great. For security, people can only see your community if they join and even then you can determine who sees what. I guess technically any time you have a course someone could steal the content and repurpose it manually, but they wouldn't be able to steal your videos or anything you don't give them access to. Does that help?
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I'm going over the blog where you give the comparison of each. I'm a little confused by this section (will copy/paste). When you say "no broadcasting" but then yes to "video room"...what is the difference? "❌ No broadcasting
✅ Live rooms (can have just a voice room or a video room) on all plans Heartbeat has a video conferencing tool. (Multiple people on a video call):
Broadcasting I consider to be a feature where one speaker is being broadcasted to an audience, but you can't see other people's videos. Like a LinkedIn live or FB Live. Video rooms are where you and others join live on video.
The Discovery Feed in Mighty Networks has a TH-cam Video thumbnail feel to me. That is probably a good thing if the community you are attracting is a regular TH-cam user. Thank you for sharing your thought process as you compared the platforms. It is helping to inform my decision. It's hard because each platform has unique features that can make a difference.
It is a tough decision, but I'm glad this helped give you a taste of each! And that's was a great callout - Mighty Networks has certainly been known to be the most accessible visually in the past. They really stayed away from a straight text format which made them really appealing visually.
Bri, I so appreciate your perspective. MN may better suited to new communities. I appreciate your perspective on Circle and Heartbeat. Those two seem to be community-first platforms like MN is. Thank you for the note on how MN used to be insufferable. MN may fully facilitate full menu build out in the left sidebar. Allowing for a page (feature) within a space is essential for creating an explainer and intro for the space.
Please let me know if you have compared platforms for mobile/app. MN seems to do a good job for that. Oversimplification on desktop may contribute to the ease in mobile.
I need to watch your video at regular speed to see if you were accidentally clicking on manage and that is why you ended up in unexpected places.
Haha, happy to help! Definitely having that page feature is a huge bonus. I do like the customizability of it!
I haven't yet compared their mobile/app, but that would be a great follow up to this :)
Yes, the discover feature is confusing. It can work well as the first tab in a space, but it lacks a way to better greet the user and help guide them through the UX.
As for onboarding, MN's Welcome Checklist is interesting but still seems lacking.
I'm fully onboard with MN for my communities and those I will launch and maintain for clients. Still, MN's community has failed to fully engage me.
Thanks for the feedback, Dru! I'm glad it's been a good platform for you - I know I nit pick a little bit on things, but overall I'm glad your community is having a good experience there! There's definitely ways to use the layout to your advantage.
I really like so much about heatwave. But not being able to broadcast is a hard no for me unfortunately. I'm kind of surprised that a platform this good doesn’t have this when it is pretty much standard in every community platform I've researched. Even the free Band App has broadcasting. It would be perfect when it get's that. Until then, I guess I'll start with Circle.
good to know that broadcast is super important for you!
You are doing amazing things 🙌 congratulations 🎉
hey how about doing lms courses on heartbeat app.. uploading pre recorded content and pdfs as a course and how good is the security of locking the content from copying.
does it has a LMS integrated like circle ?
It does, Heartbeat has a courses feature and I think it works great. For security, people can only see your community if they join and even then you can determine who sees what. I guess technically any time you have a course someone could steal the content and repurpose it manually, but they wouldn't be able to steal your videos or anything you don't give them access to. Does that help?