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SocialEngine Self-Hosted 4.8.5 Released

Today I am happy to announce the immediate availability of SocialEngine Self-Hosted 4.8.5. Well, it’s technically 4.8.4, but we messed up so to not take any chances, today we’re releasing 4.8.5. The theme of this update is to bring uploading to mobile while improving upon the previous release of HTML5 video and various quality-of-life additions.…

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SocialEngine Self-Hosted 4.8.3 Released

Features: Bug Fixes: Other: How to ensure you can upload HTML5-enabled videos Only requirement is that your FFMPEG is compiled with h264 encoder support, and in your SE Self-Hosted video settings the HTML5 Support is enabled. Mike has put together a video on how to ensure you can have html5-enabled videos.  In the video below, we walk…

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SocialEngine Self-Hosted 4.8.2 Released

New release is out! This one includes a much needed performance fix, by being more intelligent with polling the server for updates.  Test it out and let us know what you think! Features: Bug fixes: Other Core Zend Update As we’ve mentioned in our 4.8.0 Release Notes, we’ve upgraded Zend to 1.12.3, which resolved a…

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SocialEngine Self-Hosted 4.8.1 Released

My name is Stepan, I am a recently hired CTO for SocialEngine. I will be posting an update to our roadmap and future plans soon, but for now, I wanted to let you guys know we’ve released SocialEngine Self-Hosted 4.8.1. Here is the summary of feature and bug fixes that were included in the SocialEngine…

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SocialEngine Self-Hosted 4.8 Released

Good news everyone! We recently released SocialEngine Self-Hosted 4.8 with feature updates and bug fixes. Following are the notes for the SocialEngine Self-Hosted 4.8.0 release: Features: Bugs fixed: SocialEngine clients can grab the new SE Self-Hosted 4.8.0 code from the client area. Remember to make a *complete* backup of your installation before performing an upgrade. If…

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TinyMCE Update

Hey community builders, We got a lot of great feedback on our recent SocialEngine Self-Hosted 4.7 release. We found that some people encountered issues with the new TinyMCE editor in the Blogs plugin, which made it hard for end-users to post photos. We heard you guys loud and clear and have been working on a…

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Guest Tutorial: Paid Video Chat Membership

Our friends over at NuSoft wrote a great article on how to build a paid Video Chat Membership site and we thought you’d like to hear about it too!Take it away George… How to Build a Paid Video Chat Membership Website with SocialEngine 4, AVChat 3 and PayPal by george on October 18, 2013. Hi…

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SocialEngine Self-Hosted 4.7 released – bug fixes & improvements

Good news everyone! We’ve released a significant update to SocialEngine Self-Hosted that includes an array of bug fixes and many other improvements. Here’s a partial list: SocialEngine clients can grab the new SE Self-Hosted 4.7 code from the client area. Remember to make a *complete* backup of your installation before performing an upgrade. If you’ve…

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SocialEngine: CMS Critic’s People’s Choice Award Winner

A little while ago we sent out a tweet to you guys letting you know that we were in the running for CMS Critic’s People’s Choice Award for Best Social Networking Solution. The turnout was absolutely fantastic and we ended up winning! Check out the full article here.We wanted to thank CMS Critic  for letting…

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How To Create an Online Community

So you want to create a Social Network, and you want it to be vibrant. What are some things you can do to make sure you’re successful? First, you have to accept that humans are tricky things. You can’t write a formula for how to grow a community, or at least if you can, I’ve…