Will Leffert, Author at Adjourn

Understanding the hierarchy of notification priority

With all the methods and reasons for notifying users, it’s easy to make the wrong choice in how you communicate the various bits of information a user may need as a member of your community. You need to consider the technical methods, as well as the timing and priority itself. Letting a user know someone…

ByWill Leffert08/20/2025

Community

Things you may not have thought of to make your community accessible

ByWill Leffert08/13/2025

Community

The continuing evolution of content discovery and UX in 2025

About four years ago we talked about content discoverability and UX on forums; since then the digital ecosystem has continued to evolve, and rather than just focus on forums, we’re going to take a look at the web as a whole in the four years since the last article. Let’s start with something we talked…

ByWill Leffert07/31/2025

Community

The problem with XenForo permissions

XenForo has a lot of features for both users, and the administrators of the forums. With that comes the necessity to be able to manage what features users have access to, which necessitates a robust permissions system. XenForo has a lot of core permissions features that provide a great deal of control and flexibility for…

ByWill Leffert05/10/2025

Community

Is XenForo 2.3 worth the upgrade?

XenForo 2.3 has been out for a few months now, and after a few patches has become a solid choice for XenForo users to upgrade to. Most major 3rd party addon and theme developers have released updated versions of their products designed to work with XenForo 2.3 and some have even stopped supporting XenForo 2.2…

ByWill Leffert10/23/2024

Community Community Strategy

Building a successful website and online community in the AI age

AI has dramatically changed how websites work on the web and building a successfully monetized website is even more challenging now. The darker side of SEO has low-effort content farms taking advantage of AI to rewrite other author’s content, focusing on strategies to edge out original authors in ranking while raking in ad revenue. Even…

ByWill Leffert05/29/2024

Community

Incentivizing and gamifying your Facebook Group

Learn about strategies and best practices for incentivizing and gamifying your Facebook Group through Facebook provided functionality and dedicated community management.

ByWill Leffert02/07/2022

Community Community Strategy

How to monetize a community

Most communities cost money to maintain and in order to offset these costs, you need to create an effective monetization strategy. We share a number of methods on how best to monetize your community.

ByWill Leffert03/11/2021

Community Community UI/UX

Things you may not have thought of to make your community accessible

By creating an accessible community, you create a larger, more inclusive community and we share our best practices in improving your community accessibility.

ByWill Leffert11/16/2020

Community Software & Tools

Improving morale with a Slack bot

The idea for a digital, lighthearted, house cup-based competition as a way for our team to recognize each other while having some fun was made several years ago. Why we decided to create the Slack and Discord bot.

ByWill Leffert11/07/2019