Mighty Networks vs Squarespace: Which is a better fit?

Taryn: Hi, I'm Taryn. I'm a healing coach for women. I give Mighty Networks a three out of five stars. For more reviews like this, click below. When considering Mighty Networks, we were moving away from Facebook groups and wanted to do a subscription-based platform so we could offer a paid feature. Facebook groups was not serving its purpose anymore, and it really came down to Mighty Networks or Tribe community site by Stu McLaren. The reason that we ended up choosing Mighty Networks is we were able to try before we bought it, which meant we could invite all of our hosts and all of the staff onto the website to really get a good feel for having people at different access levels and what that would look like. We also chose it for the incredible support that we were receiving. They have a lot of training videos for whatever level you're coming in at, and whatever business type and level you're at. One of the main features that we appreciated was that you could offer different plans with groups, resources, community access at different price points, and then really bundle things together in a way that was customizable. Getting started with Mighty Networks was fairly simple from the setup standpoint. They walk you through a paid course, and they show you the ropes of what is important in order to set up a successful community. They give you all the tools that you need to get started. But it was tricky initially once you're in the platform. I will say that the interface and the containers that exist within the platform can get confusing. I've been in the platform for about six months now and still get lost sometimes. So there are pieces that are not entirely navigation-friendly. But other than that, there is a lot of promptings, and they're consistently making updates to their platform so that it is more user-friendly as they go. If you're considering using Mighty Network for your existing business, that is excellent. You already have a base that you are pulling from, people that are bought into what you have. So it is just such a natural fit to invite a community piece into that. If you are getting started with a business, which is what we were doing, a community platform was and is still hard to launch. So I would just say the major consideration there is, where are you at in your business building? And consider, if you don't have as much of a following, maybe using some other type of unpaid community platform at first to get the ball rolling, and then offering something more robust like Mighty Networks as you go-

Liz K.: Hi, my name is Liz. I am a Senior Paralegal at a niche law firm, but I'm also involved in operations at our resident techie outside of our external IT department. Our company size is approximately 30 people, and I would give Squarespace a one or two. Okay. We use Squarespace to host our company's basically about website with the details of what we do. Not our client portals, but just our company's main webpage. We are in the process of migrating to Wix. I have extensive experience with coding languages as well as multiple hosting providers. Wix is one that I'm not familiar with. And in the brief time I've already started using Wix, I prefer it to Squarespace dramatically. And I'm still not even fully up to everything with it. The one feature I do like about Squarespace is how easy it is to set up an application as well as the menus and their sub-menus, and add external links that in a way that it looks appealing. I hate their way to set up webpages. I hate how finicky it is. I hate how little control you have. I hate that you can't set the pixels with it, do you want the columns, you have to drag and drop everything. At some points, I wish I could write it into code rather than use their built-in thing, but that's not an option. I do not like how, for example, on our employees page, I have to click the add picture, add text, add this, add spacers in certain order. It gets all messed up. You drag and drop a block the wrong way, the whole website gets screwy. And then there's no one to... Or it's just very un-user-friendly for a site that advertises itself to be user-friendly. And again, I am very experienced with web design and I find it very frustrating, so I couldn't imagine someone who's never built a website before trying to figure it out.