Your community feed
What members can do in the feed, what you control, and the things Drry deliberately does not offer.
- community
- members
- moderation
The community feed is where your members talk to each other. It is switched on by default, and members reach it from the Community tab.
Your console version is under Community in the sidebar, with five tabs: Posts, Drafts, Review, Categories and Settings.
What members can do
Start a post. A title, and a body with formatting, links and images.
Reply, two levels deep. A reply to a post, and a reply to that reply. No further. This keeps threads readable instead of collapsing into a wall of indentation.
React. Six reactions plus a wider emoji picker, one per person per post.
Mention someone with an @, which notifies them.
Follow a post. Press Follow on a post, on the web or in the iPhone app, to get an email and a push notification when someone comments on it. Nobody follows a post by default, and taking part in one does not follow it.
Share a link. The first link in a post or reply shows as a preview card with the page's picture and title.
Attach images and files, up to ten per post at 100 MB each. You choose the limit and whether files are allowed at all.
Run a poll on a post, with two to six options and a closing time.
Owners and admins have one more tool in the post box, Embed a page. It shows a page you host elsewhere, such as a Netlify app, under the post. Paste its address and pick a height (Short, Medium, Tall or Extra tall). Members who can read the post see the page in a frame, and its address stays out of the feed. In the feed the frame is capped at a set height, and the post's own page uses the height you picked. You can edit or remove the embedded page from the post afterwards. Some sites refuse to be shown inside another site, and a Drry address is refused.
What you control
The Settings tab of the Community console holds two things: whether images and files can be attached and how many, and AI moderation if you are on the Growth plan.
Beyond that, moderation is per post and per member. You can pin a post, remove one, and pause a specific member's posting for a while.
Hear when a member posts
If you are the owner or an admin, you can ask to be told when a member starts a new post. Everything is off until you switch it on, and it is per person and per community, so it only affects you and nobody else on your team.
The switches are in the Member posts card on your account page in the community, which is the page members use for their own settings. In the console, Settings, then General, has a link to it. There is one switch for each way to hear:
In the app. A notification in that community’s bell for every new member post, reading “posted in the community”.
Email. An email when a member posts, at most one every four hours. Posts in between show in your notifications if In the app is on. The unsubscribe link in that email turns off only this switch.
Push. A push to your browser, the member app and Drry Studio, at most one every fifteen minutes. For your browser, turn on browser notifications on the same page as well.
It covers a member starting a new post, not comments or replies, and a post by you, another admin or an editor raises nothing. Editors cannot switch these on. Your assistant can read and change your own switches too.
Common questions
Can I post as the community rather than as myself?
No. Posts carry your name and handle, and owners show up labelled Host.
Can I save a post as a draft, or schedule it for later?
Yes. In the composer at the top of the console Posts tab, press Save draft beside Post. A draft can be just a title or just some words. Saving it tells nobody and emails nobody. If you close the tab or follow a link elsewhere in the console with words you have not saved, Drry asks first.
Your drafts are in the Drafts tab, with a count. Each row shows how the post starts, when it was saved, its room, and whether it will email members. Edit loads it back into the composer, Post publishes it now and announces it exactly like a new post, Schedule sets a time for it to go live on its own, and Delete removes it for good. The draft open in the composer shows Back to it instead, so you cannot post or delete it from the list by accident.
A draft is private to the owner or admin who saved it. Other admins and members never see it. A draft cannot be pinned, and a poll can only be added once the post is up. Your assistant can save, read, post, schedule, unschedule and discard drafts too, with the same privacy.
Scheduling. Press Schedule beside Save draft and Post in the composer. It needs a title, as Post does. Pick a day and time in your own time zone, which the dialog names. The composer's own Also email this to members switch decides whether the post emails members when it goes live. On a draft that is already scheduled the button reads Reschedule, and saving the draft keeps its time.
In the Drafts tab, scheduled posts come first, soonest first, each showing when it goes live. A scheduled row has Reschedule, Post now and an unschedule icon that turns it back into an ordinary draft. Unscheduled drafts have Schedule and Post.
At the time you picked, within about a minute, Drry posts it exactly as if you had pressed Post, dated when it goes live, and announces it. It is checked again at that moment: you must still be an owner or admin, not paused, the feed must be on and the room still open to you. If any of that fails, the draft comes off the schedule and its row says Did not go live with the reason, in red. If something else goes wrong, Drry retries for up to an hour before taking it off the schedule. While the feed is switched off or the community is suspended, a scheduled post is skipped and keeps its time. If your send allowance has run out by then, it still posts and emails nobody.
Can I email a post to my members?
Yes. The composer at the top of the console Posts tab has Also email this to members. Everyone sees the post in the app either way; the email goes to members who have kept both Announcements & offers and Email me about replies and mentions on in their account.
Each member it reaches counts toward your send allowance, so the composer shows how many members it would reach and how many sends you have left. If it does not fit, nobody is emailed, the post still goes up, and you are told why. Reply and mention notifications also count toward your monthly emails, but they always send, even when your emails run out. See Your send allowance.
Can members block each other?
Yes, from any post or profile. It is silent and it works both ways. Members cannot block you or your admins, because the alternative is somebody hiding from the person running the community.
What happens if I switch the community tab off?
The tab disappears and every community address stops working. Nothing is deleted, and switching it back on restores everything.
Who is told when someone comments on a post?
Everyone who took part in the post, and everyone who follows it, sees the new comment in the app. Only followers also get an email and a push notification, at most one per follower per post every four hours. Someone who replied or commented but did not press Follow gets the in-app notice only. Replies to a person and mentions still reach them as before.
The unsubscribe link in a followed-post email unfollows that one post, not all activity email. A member who turns off Email me about replies and mentions in their account stops these emails too.