Solution · Reader community
Turn your readers into a community you own.
A loyal reader community is the most durable asset a newsroom can build, and the hardest to rent. Logora brings comments, structured debates, a reader forum and consultations together under one signed identity, one moderation pipeline and one design, hosted in the EU on your own domain. You build the engagement, you keep the accounts, the traffic and the data.
- 21% of Der Spiegel subscribers cite debates as a reason they stay subscribed Reader survey · Dec 2024
- +150% daily contributions after Milenio replaced Facebook comments with a Logora community Milenio · year 1
- 50M+ reader contributions moderated on the platform since 2019 Logora platform
Why this module
A community you own, not an audience you rent.
Most newsrooms host their community somewhere they do not control: a Facebook group, a third-party forum on a separate domain, social platforms that keep the accounts and the data. The conversation happens, but the loyalty, the traffic and the first-party signal leave with it. A Logora community lives on your site, tied to real accounts in your own database, under your editorial rules. It feeds your subscription funnel instead of someone else's ad business. Milenio rebuilt exactly this when it left Facebook comments, and more than doubled its daily contributions in the first year.
What you get
Built for newsroom workflows.
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One community, every format
Threaded comments, structured debates, a reader forum and citizen consultations share one signed identity and one moderation pipeline. Turn on the formats that fit your newsroom, not four disconnected tools.
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First-party accounts, on your domain
Every member is a real account in your own database via SSO. No throwaway identities, no third-party login wall, no leak to social platforms. The community graph compounds into your subscription system.
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Built-in moderation, DSA-ready
AI moderation filters around 85% of toxic content before the human queue, then your team handles the rest, with a statement of reasons in the reader's language. See the moderation module.
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Recognition that brings members back
Reputation, badges and gamification give members a reason to return and a stake in the quality of the space. Avatars and identity can be tailored to your brand.
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Loyalty that shows up in your dashboards
A community that feeds retention and subscription cohorts, not an engagement number stuck in a silo. 21% of Der Spiegel subscribers cite debates as a reason they stay subscribed.
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Multilingual, and yours to extend
Moderation works natively per language rather than translating everything through English. We can also build custom formats on the same backend for a specific use case.
In production
Used by Der Spiegel.
Der Spiegel runs its reader debates on Logora. In a reader survey, 21% of subscribers cited debates as a reason they stay subscribed, and 4% as the main reason, turning community into a measurable retention lever.
What changes
Before, and after.
Before · A community you rent
- The community lives in a Facebook group or an off-domain forum
- Readers are anonymous or tied to third-party accounts
- Traffic and first-party data leak to social platforms
- Engagement is a metric in a silo, disconnected from subscriptions
- No loyalty or SEO value returns to your site
After · A Logora community you own
- A permanent community on your own domain and URLs
- Every member is a first-party account in your database
- Comments, debates, forum and consultations under one identity
- AI and human moderation, DSA-ready, on every contribution
- Engagement, traffic and data feed your subscription system
Common questions
What publishers actually ask.
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How is a community different from just adding comments?
Comments are one format. A community brings comments, structured debates, a reader forum and consultations together under one signed identity and one moderation pipeline, designed to bring readers back to your site rather than scatter a comment box under each article.
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Do we own the reader accounts and the data?
Yes. Reader accounts live in your own database via SSO, and all data is hosted in the EU at OVH in France. Logora is your data processor under Article 28 of the GDPR, and the setup is DSA-ready by default.
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How long does it take to launch?
About 1.5 days for the integration, with roughly two hours on your tech team to wire the JavaScript snippet and the SSO. Same setup we shipped at Der Spiegel, Sud Ouest, Milenio and Bild.
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Can the community run in several languages?
Yes. Moderation works natively per language, the platform ships in six interface languages, and we already run debate communities in Italian with Quotidiano Nazionale.
Give your readers a reason to come back.
A 60-min call on your own articles. We show you a live Logora community, the moderation desk and the SSO flow, then come back with a launch plan for your site.