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SocialEngine Self-Hosted 4.3 Released

Fresh from the code quarry! We’ve released the long overdue SocialEngine Self-Hosted 4.3 upgrade. If you’re a current SocialEngine customer, you can get your hands on it right now from the client area. If you’re not, you can grab a fresh copy here. If you are upgrading, BE SURE to make a complete backup of…

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SocialEngine Self-Hosted 4.3: Coming Soon

Hi everyone. As I type, our engineering team is 100% focused on building the upcoming (and very overdue) SE Self-Hosted 4.3 update. Here is exactly what we are adding with this update: We are also fixing these bugs: We’ve dropped everything else and the whole team is sprinting to get 4.3 ready by this Friday.…

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New SE Cloud Features & Patches

We are now pushing updates on SE Cloud weekly! We primarily focused on bug fixing and smaller improvements this week: Improvements Bug Fixes Let us know what you think about the new Clean Theme on SE Cloud. What new features do you want to see?

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New "Clean" Theme + Disqus + Other Improvements

We are getting a TON of feedback from the 600 site creators now active on SocialEngine Cloud. One common issue we’ve seen is that newly created and small communities often have a hard time getting enough engagement – especially commenting and discussions – to get off the ground. We found that the two default SE…

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SocialEngine Self-Hosted 4.2.9p1 Patch Released

Hey SE Self-Hosted site builders – we’ve just released a new patch that should fix the issues you’ve reported with the last release of SE Self-Hosted.  You can grab it from your client dashboard. Issues fixed in the patch: As always, please make a *complete* backup of your site before you upgrade and be sure…

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SE Cloud updates: LinkedIn, lightbox, and REST API beta

Hey all, SocialEngine Cloud is now about 2 months old and it’s really starting to take shape! We rolled out some new features and improvements today: LinkedIn sign-in Thanks to the awesome people at Singly, LinkedIn login is now available on all SE Cloud sites. Setup is pretty easy – just visit the LinkedIn settings…

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SE Self-Hosted 4.2.9 – Improved Search and Messaging

Our latest Self-Hosted release, 4.2.9, is ready for download. Time to backup and upgrade. As we outlined in our preview post, we’ve touched-up search and messaging. Browse the full changelog for more, and contact us for any questions, thanks! Highlights: Have any thoughts? Join the discussion below or message us. Photo by Viv, from this…

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SE Self-Hosted 4.2.8: Sneak Peek

Hello SocialEngine fans! With the help of everyone who participated in our survey and left comments on our blog, we are well under way into the development of version 4.2.8, scheduled for release on 31st October, 2012. The upgrade will be available to download from the client login area at that time. Below is a…

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SE Cloud is now mobile friendly!

We’ve heard from a ton of SocialEngine Cloud site builders that our biggest feature gap is proper support for mobile browsers. That’s not surprising since we now see that at least 12% of all traffic on the SE Cloud network is coming from mobile devices (9% iOS, 3% Android). We are also seeing that bounce…

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New SE Cloud Feature: Daily highlights emails

One of the key challenges for every online community is retention. Even if you have the most entertaining social network on the web, there are millions of other distractions on the Internet, so don’t take it too personally if your members don’t stay perpetually engaged with your network. That said, you should do everything you…