Module · Community forum

A reader community that lives on your domain.

A standing space where your readers post, reply and come back, not a comment box bolted under each article. Comments, structured debates and readers' letters under one signed identity, one moderation pipeline, one design. Hosted in the EU, owned by you.

  • +150% more daily contributions after Milenio replaced Facebook with a Logora community Milenio · year 1
  • 50M+ reader contributions moderated across the platform since 2019 Logora platform
  • 85% of toxic content auto-filtered before it reaches your team AI moderation pipeline

Why this module

A forum you own, not a group you rent.

Most newsrooms host their community somewhere they do not control: a Facebook group, a third-party forum on a separate domain, a comment box that resets with every article. The conversation happens, but the traffic, the accounts and the data leave with it. A Logora forum keeps the community on your site, tied to first-party accounts in your own database, under your editorial rules. Milenio rebuilt exactly this when it moved off Facebook Comments, and saw daily contributions more than double in the first year.

A live Logora reader community on Milenio: signed accounts, threaded discussion, moderation
Live community on Milenio

What you get

Built for newsroom workflows.

  • 01

    A standing space, on your domain

    Not a per-article thread that disappears. A persistent community surface your readers return to, hosted on your site and indexed under your URLs, so the SEO value and the traffic stay yours.

  • 02

    First-party, signed accounts

    Every member is a real account in your database through <a href="/plateforme/sso-gamification">SSO</a>. No throwaway identities, no third-party login wall, no leakage to social platforms. The community graph compounds into your subscription system.

  • 03

    Comments, debates and readers’ letters in one space

    The same contributor space combines threaded <a href="/plateforme/commentaires">comments</a>, structured <a href="/plateforme/debats">debates</a> and a readers’ letters format, under one identity and one moderation pipeline. Pick the formats that fit your newsroom.

  • 04

    Moderation built in

    AI moderation filters around 85% of toxic content before the human queue, then your team reviews the rest. DSA-ready by default. See the <a href="/plateforme/moderation-ia">moderation module</a>.

  • 05

    Community identity and gamification

    Reputation, recognition and engagement mechanics give members a reason to come back and a stake in the quality of the space. Avatars and identity can be tailored to your brand.

  • 06

    Multilingual, and extensible

    Moderation runs natively per language, including Italian: we run debate forums in Italy with Quotidiano Nazionale. We can also build custom modules for a specific use case on top of the same backend.

In production

Used by Milenio.

Milenio replaced Facebook Comments with a Logora community of logged-in readers. Daily contributions more than doubled in the first year, and 10 to 11% of new daily registrations now come straight from the discussion widget.

+150%

more daily contributions in the first year, on a community of signed-in readers

Read the full case

What changes

Before, and after.

Before · A community you rent

  • Discussion 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
  • Moderation is outsourced, inconsistent or absent
  • No SEO value flows back to your site

After · A Logora forum you own

  • A standing community on your own domain and URLs
  • Every member is a first-party account in your database
  • Comments, debates and letters unified under one identity
  • AI plus human moderation, DSA-ready, on every contribution
  • Engagement, traffic and data compound into your subscription system

Common questions

What publishers actually ask.

  • Is the forum a separate product from your comment system?

    No. It is the same backend, the same SSO and the same moderation pipeline. The forum is the persistent community surface that brings comments, debates and readers’ letters together in one space, instead of one isolated thread per article.

  • Where is the forum hosted, and who owns the data?

    On your own domain, with all data hosted in the EU on OVH in France. Reader accounts live in your database. Logora is your data processor under Article 28 GDPR, and the setup is DSA-ready by default.

  • Can the forum handle multiple languages?

    Yes. Moderation runs natively per language rather than translating everything through English. We already run debate forums in Italian with Quotidiano Nazionale, and the platform ships in six interface languages.

  • Can we add a format that is specific to our newsroom?

    Yes. On top of the standard modules (comments, debates, consultations, readers’ letters) we can develop custom modules for a specific use case, built on the same backend, SSO and moderation.

Give your readers a place to come back to.

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 forum pilot plan for your site.

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