Decidedly social
We haven’t bothered to do much promotion of the new Tabblo Groups feature that we launched last week mostly because we wanted to test it slowly and see if this first implementation was fit enough to broadly announce to the community.
However, despite the fact that it has only been one week, Tabblo Groups has been the feature most rapidly adopted by our community since the launch of the original editor. Without being expressly told about it, Tabblo members have created groups about countries, architecture, Christmas, street photography, color, and more.
Most of the groups have fewer than 25 members but because we combine the ability to collect and feature tabblos with an integrated discussion forum, they are active and composed of very engaged storytellers looking to share their own work and socialize with like minds.
It’s been a good lesson for us— we put groups off for quite a while because we felt that the basic form of a group/forum was fairly trivial to implement and therefore not unique enough to be worth spending “Tabblo cycles” on. Instead we focused on the harder stuff around the flexibility and power of the tool. But sometimes people just want to be social, and this is especially true when the substrate for socializing is really high quality content.
So what are you waiting for? Go join a group today. Or better yet, create your own!