What is a Space?

Spaces are virtual rooms for specific topics or interests within your community. If your community is a house, then each space is a room in your house.

Well-organized Spaces improve member engagement, build connections among people with similar interests, and create a structured environment that meets different needs.

Spaces are created inside your Discussion page as you're building your community. 

Spaces can also be tailored with privacy settings:

• Secret Spaces: let you manually add specific members from your Contacts tab into a space. Only the members you choose will see and access the space, making it perfect for private groups, masterminds, or VIP areas.

• Segmented Spaces: let you automatically add members to a space if they fall into a Segment (such as a specific tag, billing status, or membership tier). This makes it easy to give the right people access without managing each member individually.

What is a good number of Spaces?

We recommend not going overboard with a lot of Spaces. If you have a Membership Community, some common Spaces you could create include:

• 🗓️ Updates and Up Next: A space that only you can post in that highlights what live webinars are up next and any updates you want your community to be aware of.
• 🔍 Ask Me Anything: A space where your members can lean into your expertise.
• 🗺️ Meet Ups: A space for members to coordinate different local chapters and local events.
• ✏️ Tips & Tricks: A space for members to share different tips and tricks that have helped them make progress in their own journeys.
• 🛋️ My Workspace: A space that encourages photo only posts from members of their office, or their kitchen, or their studio (depending on what industry you're in).

You can create and re-name your spaces in the Spaces Spaces section of your Discussions page. When you create a Space, you'll also be able to set the posting permissions. Something like an Updates space is a great one to lock down posting permissions so that you're the only person posting updates.

Your newly created Spaces will not appear unless there is a post in your community. This is a great opportunity to post a template for introductions. 

Take the opportunity to create a post to share a little bit about who you are. 👋

Space Privacy

With Space Privacy, you can control access in two ways:

🔒 Secret Spaces

Secret Spaces let you manually add specific members from your Contacts tab into a space.

• Members who aren’t added won’t even see the space.

• Great for VIP groups, masterminds, or private coaching pods.

How to add members:

Make your space a Secret Space

Then go to your Contacts tab to select members you would like to add into your Secret Space

🎯 Segmented Spaces

Segmented Spaces let you automatically grant access to members who fall into a Segment.

• Segments can be based on tags, billing status, Hub access, or other attributes.

• Members who meet the criteria are automatically added.

• Ideal for membership tiers, course cohorts, or topic-based groups.

How to add members:

Create your segment using this article here

Once your segment is created, you can create & attach it to a space in your community to ensure only members in that segment can see that space.