Hey, from my own experience Hermès wasn’t out the box ready but much better than previous versions. I rebuilt our entire community from ground up based off the Hermès theme this July, welcome to take a look  https://community.talktalk.co.uk ... View more

I guess you could do that but will a subscription translate to a view and if it does is it a meaningful view  aka engaged with content.  What does a view mean to you and your business, what’s the end goal/purpose?  One suggestion, rather than forced subscription how about better signposting of your blog content in all the areas of high traffic so that users can discover the content on their own terms.  one example would be adding it to your home page, on my community our latest blog is surfaced on our homepage m along with top TKB, this way the info is always fresh and dynamic you could also add to the forum and board pages you can see my homepage promo here community.talktalk.co.uk   ... View more

Hey, my advice would be don’t however I suspect you could do it with a custom scrip upon registration.  subscription to all forums would mean every user will get a notification for each new topic or post reply regardless if they care or interested. That will get thin and fast.  id suggest you labour the benefits of subscribing to users and get them to sub themselves, you could maybe do some gamification to drive it up.  ... View more

The SDKs make it pretty straight forward but it’s down to the business goals and objectives as use of the apis could be enough to integrate by means of simply surfacing content in the app.  samsung built a pretty epic app with full community integration I suspect it cost a lot as it was swish but then if it increased sales or advocacy enough maybe it was worth it.  sadly I don’t even have an app to intergrate with so I’ll keep dreaming 🙂   ... View more

Hi What are you trying to add is it something that displays in stage but not in prod or vis verse ? Not sure what you mean by tag or is this some tracking/analytics tag    I have a wrapper this is in the header which only displays in stage as it looks up “what environment am i” if prod do this if stage do that?  ... View more