Hearthway gives you both halves at once: rooms for live conversation, threads for the slow ones, events, and everything between.
I can't believe how much I'm picking up from this cohort. @Ines you have to sit in on the next one.
This week's glaze breakdown was worth the whole membership. Everything actually made sense for once.
Blend live rooms with slow-burn discussion
Keep moderation quiet, quick and unmissable
Make every new member feel expected
This week's glaze breakdown was worth the whole membership. Everything actually made sense for once.
I'm floored by how careful the teaching is here. @Caleb you should sit in on the Thursday one.
Thanks for the nudge, @Ines. I'll be there — already blocked the evening off.
Genuinely glad I found this room. It fits around a full-time job, which nothing else did.
Been hearing good things for months. I think it's finally time to stop lurking and sign up.
The archive alone is worth it. @Rowan is unreasonably quick at answering questions in here.
Chat rooms let you host live discussion inside your community, so members can talk over topics, trade work and answer each other without leaving.
More than 12,480 teams in 74 countries run their community on Hearthway.
Every chat feature you need, sitting inside the community itself — not in a tab your members forget to open.
Welcome to the studio circle — we've been looking forward to having you in here.
Thank you! I've been reading along for a while — glad to finally be part of it.
A calm, spam-free space you can moderate without it becoming a second job.
I've been folding a short throwing session into my mornings and it's changed how the week goes.
I can relate to that. There's a whole shelf of resources in here for exactly this, and a session starting soon.
Count me in — this is exactly what I joined for.
Greet members and get them talking on day one, while the introductions still count.
This week's glaze breakdown was worth the whole membership. Everything made sense for once.
I'm floored by how careful the teaching is here. @Caleb you should sit in on the Thursday one.
Our members keep saying it feels calm. It's quick, it's clean, nothing is shouting at them. I'm glad we moved.
Yes — you get both. Post spaces keep asynchronous discussion in one place, where members write longer pieces and comment on each other's, much closer to a forum than a feed.
Alongside that you can open a chat room, which behaves like any messaging app, for the conversations that only work in real time.
No. Direct messages stay between the people in them. Admins can disable DMs for a space, or restrict them by member tier, but the contents are never surfaced to moderators.
Group threads are private and invite-only, started by a member for a handful of people. Chat rooms are part of the space itself, visible to everyone with access to it, and they stay put after the conversation ends.
They do, on both iOS and Android, with push notifications you can tune per room so people aren't woken by a quiet aside at 3am.
The customer stories library has walkthroughs from eleven communities, including how they structured rooms in their first ninety days.
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So glad to have you here. Say hello in the introductions room and tell us what you're making this month.