Discourse vs. Gainsight Digital Hub

[Discourse is by] far the best online forum platform in the industry. It may be a little pricey for people looking for a cheap option for their hobby forum, but for any type of business that relies on a forum, the pricing is more than fair.

Incentivized

Overall we have been happy with the functionality and ease of use of the inSided platform. Our ability to offer resources in an easy-to-navigate format through the knowledge base is friendlier and more effective than what we used in our previous KB. We are able to engage more with our customers as they offer ideas through the inSided platform. This will become more effective as our customer base grows.

Incentivized

• User Privileges : Teams, Trust Levels, Moderation, Private and Public Threads make it possible to have as much transparency, privacy or power decentralization as one wishes.
• Gamification: Badges and Achievements can be customized for User Activity and frequent readers and writers.
• Mailing List mode: Users can choose to use forum threads without the User Interface by subscribing via mailing list mode.

Incentivized

• Community
• Integrations
• Ideation

Incentivized

• Some configuration UIs are difficult to follow
• Not well-suited for managing workflows (grant management as an example)
• Bulk operations across multiple threads either impossible or difficult to figure out

Incentivized

• The timing for sometimes for customer support could be improved.
• Connecting with a customer success representative could be a little speedier.
• Changing the names of groups could be easier! I figured it out, but it wasn't as clear or easy as I think it could be.

Incentivized

Vanilla's mobile functionality was downright awful and it felt like it was stuck in the 2000s. While they have similar features, Discourse blows them away in almost every department. We don't regret switching at all.

Incentivized

InSided tool was in our budget and provided us with more features. Other tools were way more expensive. The circle was great and cheaper and we worked with them before but InSided provided us with more features and integrations. Salesforce was almost triple the price so we have decided to go with InSided.

Incentivized

• Community Members are eager to jump into the discussion.
• Conversations can be tracked easier without the risk of being lost in a sea of messages as people tend to construct their posts more carefully than on any workspace messenger.
• It's open source and configurable with many other add-ons to help integration with other services.

Incentivized

• Increased awareness inside the company
• Make users more engaged

Incentivized