Threadloom Blog

Last month, we completed an infrastructure upgrade to Threadloom Search, which now searches over billions of forum posts.  Search speeds are significantly faster, especially for larger forums. We’re excited to help visitors find your best content even faster.

As before, Threadloom Search continues to return all relevant results in your forum (not just the top 500 results), and includes spell correction and image search.  Because Threadloom is cloud-based, you can offload resource-intensive search queries from your servers and focus on growing your community instead of your server budget.

Threadloom Search is available for vBulletin and XenForo, and free for forums with up to 10 million posts.  No credit card is required. You can sign up and download the plug-in here.

Two years ago, we launched Threadloom Search to bring enterprise-grade search to forums.  Threadloom Search returns every post for a query, and includes spell correction, image search, and blog search.  And because it is cloud-based, Threadloom Search helps forums save server resources by offloading intensive search queries.

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When we first designed Threadloom Newsletter, our strongest supporters were our early Search customers.  Email newsletters were one of their most important traffic drivers. However, they were frustrated with having to piece together tools and data.  Their feedback helped us build the first end-to-end email newsletter service for forums. Combined with our algorithms, Threadloom Newsletter drove 50-90% higher click rates than traditional email newsletters.

Over the next year, more than 1,000 forums joined those early supporters as Newsletter customers; including Internet Brands and VerticalScope.  However, we recognize that not all forums generate revenue. Which is why I’m pleased to announce our first free plan for Threadloom Newsletter.  Effective this week, all customers get 25,000 emails per month for free. Every 1,000 emails above that cost just 20 cents.

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Starting today, all Threadloom Newsletter customers can schedule their Newsletter issues to go out daily, weekly, or any frequency in between.

A number of customers have been testing this new feature over the past month with strong results.  Ford Raptor Forum, for instance, switched from weekly to daily newsletters several weeks ago, and is now realizing 7x the increased traffic (view case study).

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I’m happy to share that we’ve updated Threadloom for XenForo 2.1.

XenForo 2.1 is a big upgrade for XenForo admins – including reactions, installing add-on archives, and more – and we’re excited to support the platform.

As with our other plug-ins (for XenForo 1.5 and 2.0, and vBulletin 3 and 4), our XenForo 2.1 plug-in delivers all of the features of Threadloom Search, Newsletter, and List Builder, from the convenience of a single plug-in.  Use just one, or all three of our products – it’s your choice.

For more details on how to upgrade, please see this Help Center article.