
Forum Keyword Alert Monitoring
Find public forum threads and replies from people already asking about your market, competitors, integrations, and problems.
- Forum threads and replies
- Source, title, and author filters
- Slack, email, RSS, API, webhooks
- Archive search and AI filtering
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Forums are where people describe real problems in detail
Short-form social feeds move fast. Forums are different. People write longer posts, explain what they tried, compare tools, ask for integrations, and leave threads that keep ranking in Google for years.
Syften watches those public discussions and alerts you when your filters match, so you can help while the thread is still active.
This is the same basic playbook behind Zapier's early forum strategy: find people already asking for help, answer the specific problem, and let the thread keep working after the conversation ends.
Find integration requests
Track phrases like "connect to" zapier, competitor names, and product categories to spot workflows your product can solve.
Catch competitor complaints
Monitor competitor.com, "alternative to", pricing complaints, missing features, and migration questions.
Answer while the thread is fresh
A useful forum reply helps the original poster, the lurkers reading today, and the searchers who find the indexed thread later.
Which forums do you monitor?
Syften can currently alert you about new posts and replies from these forums:
- 32-Bit Cafe 25 posts/day
- 3D Slicer Community 19 posts/day
- 4D Forum 68 posts/day
- a_lilian's garden 60 posts/day
- Aave 39 posts/day
- ACCESS Hive Community Forum 21 posts/day
- Ada Forum 20 posts/day
- Adalo 28 posts/day
- adminForge Community 4 posts/day
- Adobe Creative Cloud Developer Forums 7 posts/day
- Adobe Support Community
- aForum - die Aprilia Community 8 posts/day
- Algorand 5 posts/day
- AlmaLinux 5 posts/day
- Alpaca Community Forum 7 posts/day
- Alteryx Community
- Amazon Developer Community 17 posts/day
- Anki Forums 40 posts/day
- AnkiHub Community 196 posts/day
- Anoma Forum 4 posts/day
- Anova Community 4 posts/day
- Ansible 15 posts/day
- Appfarm Community 3 posts/day
- AppliancePartsPros Forum 61 posts/day
- Arbitrum 11 posts/day
- Arduboy 13 posts/day
- Arduino Forum 535 posts/day
- Arlo Community
- Art of Memory Forum 41 posts/day
- Asana Forum 318 posts/day
- Aseprite Community 4 posts/day
- Astar Forum 5 posts/day
- Asterisk Community 18 posts/day
- Athletica Forum 5 posts/day
- Atlassian
- Audacity Forum 31 posts/day
- Auth0 Community 80 posts/day
- AutomationEdge Community Forum - Robotic Process Automation & IT Automation 5 posts/day
- Avogadro Discussion 5 posts/day
- awork Community 5 posts/day
- Baby Audio 4 posts/day
- Babylon.js 28 posts/day
- Bear Community 11 posts/day
- Beginner Center 4 posts/day
- Better Transport Queensland 33 posts/day
- Bitwarden Community Forums 60 posts/day
- Blood Cancer UK Online Community Forum 48 posts/day
- Blue Robotics Community Forums 27 posts/day
- Blues Community Forum 4 posts/day
- Brain Aneurysm Support Community 6 posts/day
- Brave Community 109 posts/day
- Bubble Forum 112 posts/day
- Bubble Forum 112 posts/day
- Caddy Community 7 posts/day
- CalculiX 7 posts/day
- Camunda Forum 12 posts/day
- Canadian Football Forum 174 posts/day
- Canton Network Forum 7 posts/day
- Car Talk Community 43 posts/day
- Cardano Forum 25 posts/day
- Carers Connect - The Carers UK online community 61 posts/day
- Casino World 16 posts/day
- Casino.org Forum 69 posts/day
- Casino.org Forum 69 posts/day
- Catholic Talk 25 posts/day
- Cayas Community 19 posts/day
- Celigo Connective 8 posts/day
- Celo Forum 5 posts/day
- Cesium Community 28 posts/day
- CFI Forums 7 posts/day
- Cfx.re Community 343 posts/day
- Chapel Programming Language 22 posts/day
- Chesapeake Light Craft Community Forum 6 posts/day
- ChessUp 6 posts/day
- Chiff & Fipple 22 posts/day
- Choice of Games Forum 173 posts/day
- CHUWI Forum 10 posts/day
- Cirrus Owners and Pilots Association 362 posts/day
- ClarionHub 12 posts/day
- Clark Howard Community 9 posts/day
- ClearanceJobs Blog - Security Clearances 7 posts/day
- clockworkpi 43 posts/day
- Cloudflare Community 419 posts/day
- Code with Mosh Forum 5 posts/day
- Code.org Professional Learning Community 7 posts/day
- CodeCombat Discourse 49 posts/day
- CodeCrafters 8 posts/day
- Collabora Online 5 posts/day
- Community 6 posts/day
- Community Health Toolkit 4 posts/day
- Community Smart Home 52 posts/day
- Complaint Hub Citizen Community 10 posts/day
- Compound Community Forum 10 posts/day
- Computation Layer Support Forum 25 posts/day
- Core Electronics Forum 9 posts/day
- Cosmos Hub Forum 10 posts/day
- Creality Community Forum 62 posts/day
- Critter & Guitari 4 posts/day
- Crossref community forum 7 posts/day
- Crystal Forum 7 posts/day
- CS-Cart Forums 5 posts/day
- Cubepilot 6 posts/day
- Cumulocity Tech Community 5 posts/day
- Cursor - Community Forum 714 posts/day
- CyberNative.AI - Social Network with Interactive AI Agents 84 posts/day
- Dark Gaming 18 posts/day
- Dataquest Community 5 posts/day
- DayOne Forums 85 posts/day
- Decentraland 20 posts/day
- DeepLearning.AI 77 posts/day
- Defold game engine forum 18 posts/day
- Delta Chat 22 posts/day
- DEVONtechnologies Community 43 posts/day
- DHIS2 Community 34 posts/day
- DigiKey TechForum - An Electronic Component and Engineering Solution Forum 71 posts/day
- Digital Spy
- DILA Digital Humanities Forum 3 posts/day
- Directus Community 7 posts/day
- Discourse Meta 479 posts/day
- Discuss Kubernetes 6 posts/day
- Discuss the Elastic Stack 37 posts/day
- discuss.pixls.us 138 posts/day
- Discussions on Python.org 64 posts/day
- DJ TechTools Forum 7 posts/day
- Django Forum 13 posts/day
- Dlubal Community 17 posts/day
- Docker Community Forums 16 posts/day
- Drone Hub 29 posts/day
- Duelists Unite 8 posts/day
- Duplicati 17 posts/day
- Dynamo 31 posts/day
- eBay Community
- Electric Forum 10 posts/day
- Elfsight Community 227 posts/day
- Elite Fourum 247 posts/day
- Elixir Programming Language Forum 60 posts/day
- Elm 4 posts/day
- EndeavourOS 189 posts/day
- Epic Developer Community Forums 396 posts/day
- Eris Online Forum 5 posts/day
- Ethereum Research 13 posts/day
- EthosCE Support Community 4 posts/day
- eufy Community 336 posts/day
- EVE Online Forums 401 posts/day
- EvolveLAB Forum 5 posts/day
- eWeLink Forum 26 posts/day
- Exalate 4 posts/day
- Fairphone Community Forum 113 posts/day
- Fatoora Developer Community 4 posts/day
- Fatshark Forums 231 posts/day
- Fedora Discussion 294 posts/day
- Fellowship of Ethereum Magicians 29 posts/day
- FEniCS Project 6 posts/day
- Fibery.io Community 16 posts/day
- Film Community at Negative Lab Pro 6 posts/day
- Finance Heros Forum 16 posts/day
- Fintech Forum 3 posts/day
- Firecore 35 posts/day
- Flathub Discourse 5 posts/day
- FlightAware Discussions 19 posts/day
- Fly.io 29 posts/day
- FMSoup 7 posts/day
- Folksy Forums 102 posts/day
- Formlabs Community Forum 13 posts/day
- Foro Tuenti 76 posts/day
- Fortran Discourse 21 posts/day
- Forum de Trictrac 171 posts/day
- Forum juridique Juritravail : Posez votre question juridique 18 posts/day
- Framework Community 166 posts/day
- Freeletics Forum 4 posts/day
- FreePBX Community Forums 21 posts/day
- FreeRTOS Community Forums 4 posts/day
- FUDiabetes 19 posts/day
- Funcom Forums 296 posts/day
- Fuse Community 13 posts/day
- FxSound 5 posts/day
- Gainium Community 5 posts/day
- GameDev.tv 14 posts/day
- Gamer Nation 12 posts/day
- Gamer Nation 12 posts/day
- Garuda Linux Forum 58 posts/day
- gCaptain Forum 51 posts/day
- GCE Electronics 11 posts/day
- Gems of War 31 posts/day
- genealogy.net 94 posts/day
- GetFlightAttendantJobs.com Forum 4 posts/day
- GetLegalNurseConsultantJobs.com Forum 4 posts/day
- Ghost Forum 18 posts/day
- Gig Performer Community 45 posts/day
- Gitea 3 posts/day
- Glide Community 21 posts/day
- GNOME Discourse 27 posts/day
- Go Forum 4 posts/day
- Going to Seed 24 posts/day
- Google Nest Community
- Grafana Labs Community Forums 18 posts/day
- Grav Community Forum 4 posts/day
- Gravity Forms 4 posts/day
- Graylog Community 6 posts/day
- Grey Arrows Drone Club UK 198 posts/day
- greytHR Community 15 posts/day
- GROMACS forums 5 posts/day
- Groq Community 5 posts/day
- HashiCorp Discuss 5 posts/day
- Haskell Community 28 posts/day
- HCLSoftware Digital Solutions Community 4 posts/day
- HelpBerkeley.org 5 posts/day
- hobbyDB 24 posts/day
- Home Assistant Community 727 posts/day
- Homey Community Forum 298 posts/day
- HubSpot Community
- Hue Essentials Community 4 posts/day
- Hugging Face Forums 46 posts/day
- HUGO 11 posts/day
- Hungry Onion 202 posts/day
- I Love Philosophy 182 posts/day
- Ice711 Community Forum 200 posts/day
- Inductive Automation Forum 64 posts/day
- Infinite Conversations 18 posts/day
- Infinite Flight Community 2000 posts/day
- InterNACHI Forum 207 posts/day
- Internet Computer Developer Forum 127 posts/day
- invantive 9 posts/day
- Invvest Community 6 posts/day
- Ionic Forum 7 posts/day
- IPFire Community 23 posts/day
- iSharkFly 6 posts/day
- It's FOSS Community 48 posts/day
- iunctis.fr 119 posts/day
- Jag-lovers Forums 245 posts/day
- Jenkins 8 posts/day
- Jitsi Community Forum - developers & users 13 posts/day
- Joplin Forum 36 posts/day
- JUCE 22 posts/day
- Julia Programming Language 64 posts/day
- Jupiter Community 22 posts/day
- Jupyter Community Forum 4 posts/day
- JusConecta 23 posts/day
- KartPulse - Presented by TBD 53 posts/day
- Katalon Community 33 posts/day
- Keap Integration Q&A 6 posts/day
- Keyboard Maestro Discourse 17 posts/day
- Keyboardio community 4 posts/day
- Kinsta Community 4 posts/day
- Kirby Forum 3 posts/day
- kirupaForum 112 posts/day
- Klipper 14 posts/day
- Knack Community Forum 4 posts/day
- Knockology - Mechanical Pencil Forum 31 posts/day
- Kodular Community 193 posts/day
- KSEC Community Forum 16 posts/day
- Kurviger Forum 58 posts/day
- Lab Automation Forums 16 posts/day
- LAJI.FI-foorumi 27 posts/day
- LangChain Forum 20 posts/day
- Last.fm Support Community 25 posts/day
- Leasehackr Forum 610 posts/day
- Let's Encrypt Community Support 47 posts/day
- let's talk 13 posts/day
- LetsMesh Forum 6 posts/day
- Lexware Community 238 posts/day
- LightBurn Software Forum 109 posts/day
- Linux Containers Forum 18 posts/day
- LINUX DO 37447 posts/day
- LINUX-USER 5 posts/day
- Living with Eagle 51 posts/day
- LivingAI Forums 20 posts/day
- LLVM Discussion Forums 43 posts/day
- Local Community 11 posts/day
- Logik Forums 25 posts/day
- LotusElan.net 54 posts/day
- M10Z 17 posts/day
- Make Community 106 posts/day
- Maker Forums 6 posts/day
- Manager Forum 58 posts/day
- Manjaro Linux Forum 137 posts/day
- Mapillary Community Forum 10 posts/day
- Maslow CNC Forums 21 posts/day
- Mattress Underground 21 posts/day
- Mautic Forums 7 posts/day
- McNeel Forum 212 posts/day
- MedBound Hub 187 posts/day
- Media Spy 296 posts/day
- MediaTek Genio Community 19 posts/day
- MessengerGeek 13 posts/day
- metadaten.community 4 posts/day
- MetaGrid Forum 5 posts/day
- Metallica Forums 420 posts/day
- MetaMask 5 posts/day
- Microsoft Community Hub
- Microsoft MakeCode 196 posts/day
- Microsoft Power BI Community
- MindStudio 4 posts/day
- Ministry of Testing Club 7 posts/day
- Mirai Forum 8 posts/day
- Mixxx 19 posts/day
- Modular 10 posts/day
- MoneySavingExpert
- MongoDB Community Hub 36 posts/day
- Monzo Community 187 posts/day
- MorphMarket Reptile Community 84 posts/day
- Morse Micro Community 8 posts/day
- Motley Fool Community 97 posts/day
- Mozilla Discourse 22 posts/day
- MPU Talk 66 posts/day
- MyriadRF Discourse 4 posts/day
- n8n Community 442 posts/day
- Naim Audio - Community 480 posts/day
- Nature Photographers Network 83 posts/day
- Navigraph 33 posts/day
- Neo4j Online Community 31 posts/day
- NetBird 4 posts/day
- Netgamers.it 516 posts/day
- Netwrix Community 115 posts/day
- Neural DSP 30 posts/day
- Nextcloud community 94 posts/day
- Nextworld User Community 8 posts/day
- NGINX Community Forum 8 posts/day
- NHS England Developer Community 22 posts/day
- Niantic Wayfarer Community 177 posts/day
- Nintendo-Online.de Forum 26 posts/day
- NixOS Discourse 88 posts/day
- Niyo Community 13 posts/day
- NLR Forum 4 posts/day
- No Rest For The Wicked 34 posts/day
- Node-RED Forum 50 posts/day
- NodeLoc 1254 posts/day
- Nomad Gate Community 59 posts/day
- Nomad Sculpt 6 posts/day
- NTP Pool Project 11 posts/day
- NVIDIA Developer Forums 523 posts/day
- OCaml 12 posts/day
- ODK Forum 11 posts/day
- Okta Developer Community 4 posts/day
- Onefinity CNC Forum 45 posts/day
- Onix Community 5 posts/day
- Open edX discussions 16 posts/day
- Open OnDemand 5 posts/day
- Open Robotics Discourse 50 posts/day
- Open Robotics Discourse 50 posts/day
- Open Robotics Discourse 50 posts/day
- Open Science Data Repository Analysis Working Groups 12 posts/day
- Open Technology Fund 5 posts/day
- OpenAI Developer Community 232 posts/day
- OpenCV 4 posts/day
- OpenMandriva forum 8 posts/day
- OpenMV Forums 10 posts/day
- OpenRent Landlord & Tenant Forum 51 posts/day
- OpenSearch 8 posts/day
- OpenStreetMap Community Forum 225 posts/day
- openSUSE Forums 147 posts/day
- OpenWrt Forum 270 posts/day
- OSGeo Discourse 19 posts/day
- Pangeo 4 posts/day
- Particle 8 posts/day
- Patient Communities 173 posts/day
- Penpot Community 6 posts/day
- Percona Community Forum 12 posts/day
- Perplexity API Platform Forum 8 posts/day
- Pi-hole Userspace 35 posts/day
- Pimoroni Buccaneers 3 posts/day
- Pinegrow Community Forum 4 posts/day
- Pioreactor forum 4 posts/day
- Pix4D Community 3 posts/day
- Playdate Developer Forum 7 posts/day
- Plex Forum 177 posts/day
- Plotly Community Forum 9 posts/day
- Pocket Community 8 posts/day
- Polkadot Forum 12 posts/day
- Polyend Backstage 15 posts/day
- Postman Community 22 posts/day
- Privacy Guides Community 142 posts/day
- Processing Community Forum 10 posts/day
- Progression Project Forum 63 posts/day
- protaxcommunity.com 16 posts/day
- PS Audio 120 posts/day
- PSAppDeployToolkit Community 5 posts/day
- PsychoPy 10 posts/day
- PTC Community
- PyTorch Forums 6 posts/day
- PyTorchKR 26 posts/day
- QField community 6 posts/day
- Qlik Community
- Qoder forum 61 posts/day
- Quarter To Three Forums 422 posts/day
- RapidWeaver Elements Forum 78 posts/day
- Real Patient Stories & Treatment Journeys 37 posts/day
- RealEquity Developer Forum 16 posts/day
- Rebble Developer Forum 14 posts/day
- Resolute Legal's Disability Claim Forum 5 posts/day
- Retool Forum 52 posts/day
- Retro Game Boards 5 posts/day
- Revopoint 3D 28 posts/day
- Roboflow 6 posts/day
- Robot Framework 4 posts/day
- Robotime Community 831 posts/day
- Rocky Linux Forum 13 posts/day
- Roots Discourse 3 posts/day
- RootsMagic Community 20 posts/day
- RTEMS Users 3 posts/day
- Rust Internals 21 posts/day
- SailPoint Compass Community
- SailPoint Developer Community 361 posts/day
- Sanctuary 277 posts/day
- SanDisk Forums 7 posts/day
- Scaler Music - Community Forum 11 posts/day
- Schizophrenia.com 4 posts/day
- ServiceNow Community
- Shaper Community 24 posts/day
- Shapr3D Community 12 posts/day
- Shopify Community 685 posts/day
- Sierra Wireless Forum 5 posts/day
- Sigma Community 7 posts/day
- SignalRGB 6 posts/day
- SilverBullet Community 16 posts/day
- SIM Dispatcher Forums 28 posts/day
- simon42 Community 343 posts/day
- SitePoint Forums 23 posts/day
- SketchUp Community 107 posts/day
- Skiff HQ Community 87 posts/day
- SmartThings Community 59 posts/day
- snapcraft.io 25 posts/day
- Snapmaker: where creation happens 27 posts/day
- Softr Community 11 posts/day
- Software AG Tech Community 4 posts/day
- Sonar Community 101 posts/day
- Sovol3d forum 16 posts/day
- SparkFun Community 23 posts/day
- Spiceworks Community 422 posts/day
- Square Developer Forums 20 posts/day
- Stalker Team 6 posts/day
- Steinberg Forums 557 posts/day
- Straight Dope Message Board 1176 posts/day
- Sublime Forum 14 posts/day
- sunnypilot Community 68 posts/day
- Superhuman Community 21 posts/day
- Support Forum 7 posts/day
- Surety Support Forum 54 posts/day
- SUSE 4 posts/day
- Svet Androida Community 14 posts/day
- SWAPD 5883 posts/day
- Swift Forums 83 posts/day
- T Nation by Biotest 189 posts/day
- TalkTalk Community
- TARDIS Guide Forum 601 posts/day
- telecomHall Forum 7 posts/day
- Temporal Community Forum 4 posts/day
- Text Blaze Community 72 posts/day
- THE ANFIELD NOISE 396 posts/day
- The Atlassian Developer Community 42 posts/day
- The Barbell Medicine Forum 8 posts/day
- The bioBakery help forum 4 posts/day
- The Commons 204 posts/day
- The Construct ROS Community 18 posts/day
- The Den 542 posts/day
- The Eldraeverse 5 posts/day
- The Evolve Authoring Community 4 posts/day
- The FlyNumber Forum 4 posts/day
- The freeCodeCamp Forum 239 posts/day
- The freeCodeCamp Forum 239 posts/day
- The Gasroom 120 posts/day
- The Gramps Project (Discourse Forum & Mailing List) 29 posts/day
- The Interactive Fiction Community Forum 102 posts/day
- The Last Forum 103 posts/day
- The Nonsuch Community Forum 8 posts/day
- The Rust Programming Language Forum 86 posts/day
- The South Pacific 112 posts/day
- The Spaghetti Western Database Forum 10 posts/day
- The Stan Forums 12 posts/day
- The Things Network 7 posts/day
- The Uncharted Blue Community Forums 32 posts/day
- three.js forum 36 posts/day
- TidBITS Talk 52 posts/day
- Tiller Community 32 posts/day
- Time Travel Institute 17 posts/day
- Toad World Forums 4 posts/day
- Toggl Community 16 posts/day
- Topaz Community 113 posts/day
- Tor Project Forum 12 posts/day
- Trading 212 Community 29 posts/day
- Trading Q&A by Zerodha - All your queries on trading and markets answered 70 posts/day
- Trakt Forums 220 posts/day
- Triumph Motorcycle Forum 16 posts/day
- TrueNAS Community Forums 96 posts/day
- TrustedHousesitters Community Forum 164 posts/day
- Tryton Discussion 5 posts/day
- Tulip Community 6 posts/day
- TWiT.Community 7 posts/day
- Typst Forum 26 posts/day
- Ubuntu Budgie Discourse 7 posts/day
- Ubuntu Community Hub 166 posts/day
- UDisc Forum 4 posts/day
- UDO Audio Forum 6 posts/day
- UiPath Community Forum 285 posts/day
- Umbraco community forum 22 posts/day
- Umbrel Community 8 posts/day
- Unicyclist.com 37 posts/day
- Unity Discussions 316 posts/day
- Universal Blue 12 posts/day
- Universal Robots Forum 8 posts/day
- Upstox Community 48 posts/day
- UrBackup - Discourse 5 posts/day
- USCCA Community 207 posts/day
- User Forum - Morningstar Engineering 11 posts/day
- Vaadin Forum 7 posts/day
- Vercel Community 265 posts/day
- Victron Community 247 posts/day
- vint-aide 35 posts/day
- Virtualmin Community 41 posts/day
- vLLM Forums 8 posts/day
- VRChat Ask Forum 13 posts/day
- WAGO Automation Community 6 posts/day
- Wahoo Forum 18 posts/day
- WaniKani Community 445 posts/day
- Water Polo Exchange 33 posts/day
- Waterloo Cycling Club Forum 20 posts/day
- WD Community 8 posts/day
- Weather-Watch Forum 13 posts/day
- WeWeb Community 16 posts/day
- WHOOP Community 16 posts/day
- wikiHow 5 posts/day
- WLED 4 posts/day
- Wohnzimmer Neurodivers e.V. 305 posts/day
- World Liberty Financial 51 posts/day
- World Radio League 22 posts/day
- WorldGuessr Forum 132 posts/day
- WoW Lazy Macros 95 posts/day
- Wyze Forum 77 posts/day
- X Developers 107 posts/day
- Yarbo Forum 95 posts/day
- YoYoExpert Forums 582 posts/day
- Zammad - Community 22 posts/day
- Zcash Community Forum 38 posts/day
- ZigZaGame Forum 87 posts/day
- Zoom Developer Forum 41 posts/day
- Zorin Forum 239 posts/day
So what can forum monitoring be used for?
You can use Syften to receive alerts whenever a new thread or reply matches the keywords you care about. That means you can be one of the first people to reply usefully instead of finding the thread months later through search.
This is especially useful for founder-led sales, developer tools, agencies, and niche SaaS products where buyers ask detailed questions before they buy.
You can also monitor your own articles, docs, and product pages. If someone shares your link in a forum, your team can join the conversation while it is still fresh.
Example forum alert filters
Syften filters are not Google queries. Words and phrases on the same line must all match. Use separate filter lines when you need alternative keywords or phrases. Repeated site:, author:, and replyto: values on one line are treated as alternatives.
| Goal | Example filter | What it finds |
|---|---|---|
| Domain mentions | example.com | Mentions of a domain, including subdomains and common obfuscated forms like example[.]com. |
| Product name | "Acme Analytics" | Mentions of a multi-word product name. |
| Alternative searches | "alternative to" calendly | Threads and replies where someone is comparing options around a known product. |
| Integration demand | "connect to" zapier | People describing integration needs, automation workflows, and missing connectors. |
| Forum-specific alert | site:meta.discourse.org title:`[paid-job]` | New Discourse threads with a specific marker in the title. |
| Multiple sources | site:indiehackers.com site:news.ycombinator.com "email warmup" | Matches from either source that also mention the exact phrase. |
| Reply notifications | site:news.ycombinator.com replyto:yourusername | Replies to your account where replyto: is supported, such as Hacker News, Indie Hackers, and Stack Exchange. |
| Noise reduction | "wordpress theme*" `?` NOT `https://` | Questions about WordPress themes while excluding posts that are mainly links. |
Other than forums, we monitor these communities:
Syften's filter syntax is built for exact matches, source filters, exclusions, tags, and AI filtering, so useful forum conversations can reach you without the junk.

Operating since 2019
Check out what our customers are saying

At Rewardful, we're huge believers in word-of-mouth marketing. I've used most of the social monitoring tools on the market and most have a lot of noise in the results or miss important conversations happening online. Syften returns the most relevant social mentions with the least amount of noise out of all the tools I've tested so far. Their community listening is the best on the market and I love how you can fine tune by source.
I love that Syften monitors all the communities I am part of but don't have enough time to check all day. Now, I can check my email and see conversations happening on Twitter, Reddit, Indie Hackers, and many more places. It's incredibly useful. Worth every dollar.


We use Syften to react to people saying things about us on the internet every single day. It's a set once and forget tool that just helps your team keep your pulse on whatever it is you care about.
Syften is awesome. I use it for my business so I can monitor the brand, and participate in online discussions which can help us attract new customers. I also use it personally to keep track of niche subjects that I'm interested in like emerging tech and products.


We love Syften at PostHog and find it incredibly useful for listening to our open-source community. The Slack integration enables our entire team to find ways to connect with our users, whether it's the Marketing team sharing new content or the Engineering team answering technical questions. The filtering system is especially powerful and helps us separate the signal from the noise.

I've written a couple books and like to keep an eye on how and where folks are talking about them. Syften has helped me catch several key conversations that I otherwise wouldn't have seen. Even on the days without any notable alerts, I'm still happy to know that I haven't missed anything. A very useful tool.


Syften has become integral to our business. It allows us to monitor *and* respond in real-time using their super simple webhooks. For example, when people mention our competitors being expensive on Twitter, Syften finds it and enables us to respond instantly with Zapier. It's paid for itself many times over. It even helped us secure $5M in funding for one of our community members. Michael has been overwhelmingly supportive over the past 18+ months we've been a customer and we couldn't be more grateful.
I use Syften every day and have been for a year. I looked at various other social listening tools but they were mostly aimed at big brands and enterprise customers and carried a hefty price tag. Syften tracks all of the major networks that I'm interested (even ones the big tools don't) and it's affordable for businesses of every size. Every day I get an email digest of people talking about my product for me to take immediate action on.


I gather the mentions I get from Syften and add them to our customer sales and partner presentations to show how our product is gaining mindshare amongst users on Reddit and forums. These slides are very impactful.
Syften has been a great tool to understand in which communities my website is being mentioned, or topics relevant to my business. It allowed me to engage in meaningful discussions and to identify some important actors in my niche.


Syften has enabled us to keep an eye on the topics related to our product. We can easily track posts about discount codes, email marketing, and e-commerce. We can then suggest using our service, or just be helpful answering questions on subjects that we are familiar with.
Pricing
It pays for itself if you find just one customer (easy)
Entry
Keep an eye out for your product name
Standard
AI filtering, API access, more filters, more archive, Slack integration, and optional Twitter and YouTube support
- 20 filtersA filter is a search query for mentions you want to track.
- Daily results: 200
- Archive search: 1 monthSee who has mentioned you in the past. Click to read more.
- Slack integration
- Twitter monitoringPaid addon
- YouTube monitoringPaid addon
- AI filteringFilter noisy matches before they reach your alerts. Click to read more.
- API accessQuery results and edit your settings. Click to read more.
Syften PRO
More matches, more filters, unlimited archive, API access, and webhook support
- 100 filtersA filter is a search query for mentions you want to track.
- Daily results: 500
- Archive search: unlimitedSee who has mentioned you in the past. Click to read more.
- Slack integration
- Twitter monitoringPaid addon
- YouTube monitoringPaid addon
- AI filteringFilter noisy matches before they reach your alerts. Click to read more.
- API accessQuery results and edit your settings. Click to read more.
- WebhooksPush new matches to your own endpoint. Click to read more.
- MCPConnect Syften to AI tools that support MCP. Click to read more.
Tailor made
We also offer custom solutions built just for you, whether it's integrating Syften into your product or supplying your marketing team with the right data.
Frequently asked questions
Which forums does Syften monitor?
Syften monitors the public forums listed on this page, including Discourse forums and other niche community sites. The list is generated from sources we can reliably fetch and monitor.
Can Syften monitor forum replies, not just new threads?
Yes. Forum monitoring covers threads and replies where the source exposes them. That matters because many buying questions and competitor comparisons happen inside replies, not only in the first post.
Can I monitor one specific forum?
Yes. Use the site: operator to limit a filter to a forum domain or path. For example, site:meta.discourse.org migration only matches items from that forum.
Can I monitor forum authors?
Yes, when the source exposes an author name. Use author: together with site: when you want alerts from a known account on a specific forum.
Can Syften notify me when someone replies to me on a forum?
It depends on the source. Syften supports replyto: on some communities, such as Hacker News, Indie Hackers, and Stack Exchange, but not every forum exposes enough reply structure for this to work.
How do you reduce noisy forum alerts?
Start with exact product names, domains, competitor domains, narrow problem phrases, or forum-specific paths. Then add exclusions, type: filters, tags, or AI filtering for broad words.
Can I search older forum mentions after signing up?
Yes. Syften includes archive search so you can test filters and inspect recent forum matches from before you created an alert.
Do you support other communities, or just forums?
Syften monitors these communities:
I have more questions.
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