This summer, we’re launching a new Podia that puts your community members at the center. Instead of products, community, and updates living in separate places, everything your audience has access to will come together in one unified home.

Here's everything that changes with the new Podia.

The biggest change you’ll notice the next time you log in is the new Home feed.

You and your members will now log in to the same home screen, so you can see exactly what your members see. From there, everyone can access notifications, chats, products, and community spaces — all in one unified place.

To make changes — like editing your site, creating products, sending emails, or viewing stats — you’ll use the Admin area, which is separate from the home feed and where all account management happens.

Community is now built in by default and can’t be turned off. When someone buys a product, joins a plan, creates an account, or signs up for a freebie, they’ll automatically get free access to your community.

This gives them access to the home feed, where they can see updates from everything they’re allowed to access.

You can control what this free access includes by choosing which spaces and content are available, allowing you to structure your community and decide what should be reserved for paid members.

The home feed is the central hub for you and your members, and it’s the first page you’ll see after logging in.

From there, you can view notifications, chats, products, and community spaces based on what you have access to.

The home feed is unique to each member, showing updates, announcements, products, and relevant spaces — all in one place, making it easy to stay connected and explore more of your content.

It also includes new customization options, such as community highlights (like Top Contributors and custom links), welcome messages, and the ability to feature posts directly on the home feed.

Lesson comment updates will now appear on the Home feed.

We’re introducing a new unified notification system that replaces the previous Notifications Inbox. With this update, you can access all of your notifications directly from your home feed.

We’ve renamed the “Added to Audience” campaign entrance condition to “Joins community”.

Since anyone who signs up for anything on your site now becomes a member, this condition replaces the "Added to Audience" and triggers whenever someone becomes a contact in your audience.

We're introducing some changes to how we manage plans on Podia.

Since community is now built in by default, you can no longer create separate free community plans. Instead, members will automatically get free access to your community when they buy a product, subscribe to your email list, or create an account on your site.

Any existing free plans will be removed during the migration. Members from those plans will be tagged with the plan name, so you can still identify them easily.

They’ll also keep access to the same topics (now called spaces) and any included products their plan had before.

We’re introducing a new Plans page, where you can view and manage all of your paid community plans in one place.
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Your current community topics and product discussions will be turned into Spaces.

They’ll work in a similar way, but with more customization options — such as adding icons and controlling access through products, plans, or specific members.

Public topics previously allowed you to create posts that were visible to anyone on your site, including non-members. This feature has been removed in the new Podia.

Any public topics you had have been converted into open spaces, which are only visible to members.

If you’d like to keep that content accessible to site visitors, we recommend turning those posts into blog posts.

Members are now able to start their own private chats with other members.

You and your members can now create group chats (up to 10 people) directly inside Podia.

We’re introducing a new “Join” button in your site’s header that links to your Plans page, making it easier for people to join your community.