Hello friends. This is the beginning of a series of articles about Hobblife in which in brief we tell about the interesting features of the platform and why it is so useful to anyone who has a hobby or is looking for their new hobby. Let's start with what Hobblife is.

First and foremost Hobblife is a question and answer platform for hobbies because people want to spend less time solving problems and more time enjoying the hobby. On Hobblife the users follow one or more hobbies and subscribe to simultaneously see posts in one or more languages. This way the hobby knowledge is easily shared between the international hobby communities. Hobblife has Blog post functionality, a full-featured hobby specific marketplace and all that combined with the feel of a social network with real time chat, notifications and many more.

In other words, as one Hobblife user summarized it:

Basically Hobblife is a Q&A hobby platform where you follow hobbies and that combines the functionality of a forum and a group in a social network and that offers a hobby specific marketplace.

1) Following hobbies

On Hobblife you can follow one or more hobbies from which you will simultaneously see hobby content. For example, if you are only interested in saltwater aquariums, Hobblife will be a platform for saltwater aquariums. But if you are interested in more hobbies, let's say Bonsai, Cycling and Diving, you will see blog posts, questions, publications and notifications from all three hobbies. At any time, you can change in your settings how many and which hobbies to follow.

2) Questions and Answers (Q&A)

Hobblife provides a new and convenient question and answer functionality where everyone can ask a question in the hobby and get one or more answers. Subsequently, the person who asks the question can mark one of the answers as accepted, showing that the suggested solution worked for him. This will help other users with a similar problem to find a quick fix. Also the author of the accepted answer will be rewarded by receiving points and reputation. Furthermore all users can vote for the answer they most like and think is right.

3) Similar to a forum Similar to a topic in a forum, in Hoblife you can publish a blog post that has its own page, the option for advanced text formatting, the ability to upload photos and to post comments. That provides the user with the opportunity to create interesting and good looking articles and to start a discussion that will remain in time.

4) Similar to a group in a social network

Similar to a group on a social network, on Hobblife you see all posts but you can also hide an user from seeing their posts. In addition Hobblife users get the feel of a social network that they are so used to - features like real-time chat, notifications, likes, comments, views, and many others are available.

5) Hobby content in multiple languages at the same time

Hobblife is an international platform. Every post has two basic characteristics - Hobby and Language. This allows people speaking different languages but practicing the same hobby to be united and connected on a global hobby platform. In the settings the users subscribe for all languages they understand and then they will see all posts that are written in these languages simultaneously in one combined feed. This way the international hobby communities can collaborate and share knowledge.

6) Full-featured hobby marketplace

Hobblife offers a dedicated full-featured hobby specific marketplace. There are detailed filters and search functionality. All Marketplace listings are free and unlimited. You can choose how long the listing will be active for as well as the listing type - "Buy" or "Sell". You can bookmark and comment. You see your active and inactive ads. You have the option to mark a marketplace listing as "sold" or "canceled", or renew or relist it. Each marketplace listing has its own page and link and the option to add multiple pictures and use an advance text formatting.

7) An important notice - getting indexed and appear in Google, Bing, Yahoo and other search engines

Blog posts, Questions, Marketplace listings are accessed by all search engine crawlers, e.g. Google, Bing, Yahoo and will appear in searches. These three types of publications have their own link that you can share anywhere outside Hobblife for example on Facebook, Skype, Viber, Instagram, etc. Blog posts, Questions, Marketplace listings can also be accessed and are visible for non registered users.

And last but not least Hobblife is a FREE platform and will always be free.
 

This is the end of our first blog post about Hobblife. We hope that it was interesting and useful. Please stay tuned for the next blog post of the "Do you know..." series.