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This exciting update arrives from the culmination of months of work to drive the SocialEngine Cloud product forward with a speed and stability not before possible, given the previous infrastructure and code base.

New Infrastructure for SocialEngine Cloud

Our vastly improved infrastructure allows SocialEngine Cloud to further scale without worry. In addition, a new and improved automated deployment system kills a wide range of prior limitations.

New Code Base for SocialEngine Cloud

We’re going live with our code base using the modern Larvel web app framework. We have separated our three properties (SocialEngine website, SocialEngine Cloud sites, customer database) into three distinct code bases, making it easier to develop, maintain and upgrade all three individually. A lot of legacy code has been removed and we’ve improved maintenance.

New Domains for SocialEngine Cloud Sites

Beginning today, all SocialEngine Cloud sites are moving to a new, dedicated domain: onsocialengine.com. This is a security measure aimed at removing potential vectors for cross domain attacks targeting the main socialengine.com session as well as vectors for phishing attacks relying on the presence of the “socialengine.com” domain to build a false sense of trust in malicious websites.

If you’ve configured a custom domain for your site (“yoursite.com” instead of “yoursite.socialengine.com”) then you are not affected by this change.

If your SocialEngine Cloud site was previously served from a name.socialengine.com domain, all traffic will be redirected to the new name.onsocialengine.com location indefinitely, so you won’t have to change any links.

From this point on, any website hosted under the socialengine.com domain may be assumed to be an official SocialEngine product or service.

Please contact support if you experience any issues due to these changes. We’ve taken measures to prevent any serious breakage but this is a major change and could have unexpected consequences. Do not hesitate to contact support for assistance.

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Hey everyone,

All of our SocialEngine Cloud themes are now Responsive — providing a great mobile and tablet experience. We’ve very happy to provide this functionality and see this as a benefit for all of our users.

Our hope is to share common theme elements with developers and this is the first step in that direction.

Also, per our  previous post about Enabling Legacy Themes, if you have customized your Cloud themes you have the ability to use Legacy Themes to keep all of your customizations in place.

Cheers,

The SocialEngine Team

Hey all, January was a great month. We are really beginning to see the infrastructure we’ve been putting in place begin to crank. Getting “the house in order” has been a constant over the past year. It’s something we are proud of, and know it will benefit everyone tremendously.

Here’s what our team accomplished in January:

Product Roadmaps

Overall: Our intent has always been to give our users a voice in the development priorities process. To do this we’ve been working with and testing several platforms and finally landed on using Ramen.Is as our platform. We thought we were going to have this launched, but the integration is taking a bit longer than expected and we are pushing hard for ASAP. Rest assured it is going to happen. We have our communications plan in place and ready to go.

Cloud Roadmap: It’s ready to roll out. We’re excited to bring this to all of our Cloud customers to provide feedback and be involved in the discussion. As we wait for the integration we’ll post a screen capture. This will not meet the needs of getting feedback and interacting, but it will show what we have in place.

PHP Roadmap: We are progressing well here to0. Our job has been whittling down all the “ideas” for PHP so not make the Roadmap a laundry list where it’s hard to have a discussion about.  Our upcoming PHP release is critical to our roadmap as it clears the way to discuss priority features and development efforts. The reality is PHP is far more fluid than Cloud as many of the decisions we’ll make depend on community feedback.

PHP

• Brought on a dedicated product owner for SE PHP
• Focused on PHP v4.8.7 — which we think this is our biggest update yet

Cloud

• Updates have included: member picklist in comments, better notification control for semi-private communities, mass assignment of categories. As always the full list is available on our community here
• Released Cloud knowledge base articles: Setting Up a Custom Domain, Creating Categories, How to Enable Profile Photos
• Finalized our work on Responsive Themes, I think you’re going to like them. Even though we like responsive, we know people worked to make their current sites look good, we got you covered with Legacy Themes.
• Temporary suspended reseller program – its coming back for those dedicated to reselling our products!

February may be the shortest month, but it will be packed with releases: 

• PHP 4.8.7 release first week
• Notice of action for anyone who wishes to remain on Legacy Themes for Cloud
• Roadmap release 2nd week
• Cloud Responsive Themes – Feb 12th
• Additional Cloud updates
• Beta of the new site out this month

As always many thanks for your dedication to SocialEngine.

With appreciation,

James