Do you follow your competition in trends?

[Katrina]

Do you follow your competition forums in the trends that they do? If they add on a new component, do you follow suit?

 

[Shawn Gossman]

Do you follow your competition forums in the trends that they do?

Not really. If you are too busy worrying about your competition, then you're missing opportunities to improve your community from within. I can't change my competition, so why should I waste my time watching them?

If they add on a new component, do you follow suit?

Nah. Most of the time, those new components never take off. But I applaud them for testing them to see if they work or not.

I'm old school. I try to keep the forum discussion the biggest core feature.