The images offer a sneak peek at what we've been working on over the past few months in building our own social media system. We wanted to separate ourselves from Sgnine for our communities and have a modern, clean system that makes it easier to add new features for both admins/mods and users. The software is state-of-the-art. This is just a small part of what we've done so far.

How did you decide which niche your community site should be?

I always look and research which larger niches don't have their own community site. Then I decide which one I want to serve.

Hello everyone! Since some of you run your own communities, what are your must-haves for social media site systems? What are the most important things you need as a community admin? Features are already included in Sngine, but also things you'd like to see included?

For example, a big issue for my sites was/is moderation. A good and clear moderation tool is essential. Moderation logs to see what the moderators are doing, etc. Something Sngine never offered by default.

What about you?

Since my last post was surprisingly (!) 6 months ago, I just wanted to give a quick update.

A small team and I have been working with Sngine for several years now and have several active communities.

Despite the issues with the Sngine team and updates, as well as the possibilities of extending the system independently, we decided to develop our own social engine. This was simply to eliminate our dependence, make customizations better, faster, and easier, move away from PHP and the SQL database, and work with modern systems.

In about two months, we will migrate the first community currently running on Sngine to our own system. This will allow us to test our system in an active, live environment, fix initial bugs, and determine which functions we need to adapt specifically for our communities. We want to ensure that the system isn't the same for every niche we serve, but rather develop niche-specific functions and thus become independent.

. ... I really hope everything goes according to plan, and that we'll have all our Sngine communities switched to our own system within a year at the latest. (Wish me luck).

Here is a small update to my profile design expansion, profile rings and now also effects.

I've made some adjustments to our moderation system, not only redesigning the reports listing page.

Users now also receive a notification when one of their posts is deleted during moderation, with information about which post and the reason.

Happy Birthday Dinesh!!!!!

I still remember some comments on the Codecanyon sngine page where users wished for different mod groups with different permissions to grant team members different rights.

The team's response: "It's not possible, it will never happen."

It's strange that it took me 60 minutes to do this and it works perfectly...

To give our users more options for customizing their profiles, and as an additional monetization option, we have "Rings" for our users. Here, users can choose between free and paid profile rings, which are displayed everywhere around their profile picture: in the timeline, profile, comments—everywhere. In addition to free rings, users can also purchase rings with their points or for $ via the payment system.

We can insert simple CSS designs for this, or even PNGs to add more specific designs.

Our users love it! Maybe an idea for your community!

In one of my communities, posting adult content is permitted. To give users more control over this type of content, we have added two new settings: one allows users to completely disable the display of adult content on their account, ensuring they are not exposed to it at all. The other ensures that adult content is always blurred by default, allowing users to scroll through their feed in public without concern.

Small but very important change
Volume setting in the Reels tab! All reels play at 50% volume unless the user has changed it themselves in the current session.

For this purpose, our users have a volume slider to adjust the volume themselves!