You read the title correctly. After 4 long years of you begging and tormenting me, I have finally caved and made SoSa a dating site. But this of course isn’t any normal dating site. OH NO! this is a dating site made for a community that hasn’t dated for 4 years, a community that is

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After years of forging inside the depths of Mordor the iPhone app is finally here!  As you know it’s past has been a troubled one, whilst we had an Android app in 2014 it’s taken years to bring the iPhone app to the table. TL;DR: App doesn’t have all the features but a lot There

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Updates from 6th Nov – 13th Nov 2017 The iOS app is ready to be posted to the store now! yay!  I’m having some minor problems with the Facebook login but that’ll be solved this week. Over the next three weeks, I am aiming to have the website almost completely rebuilt. A new, modern bootstrapped

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I’ve done my best this week to get as much of the iPhone app finished as possible, it’s very close i’m cleaning up and testing now. It’s got more features than I intended to release with including messaging, push notifications, discussions and will have basic profiles. Website / General Upgraded push notifications code to ...

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Lot’s of client work this week, but still some bits done 🙂  Website / General Fixes to the content sharing system Migrated blog back to live server Argued with teabot about the benefits of kale Got Secret Santa code ready Started building Chat 2.0 Cried because of AWS

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Evening everyone 🙂 This post is well over due, I got a little overwhelmed. I have a day job and that coupled with closing my business, picking up left over projects and a string of server emergencies meant working on SoSa has been very difficult. Things are back on track now and I thought it

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Week 3 :), our UK meet was this week so didn’t have a great deal of free time outside of client work, mostly fixes. Fixes Uploading of profile pictures due to cross origin bug Can’t vote for polls on poll page Matt (TheSire) can’t access games because his subscription is unlimited like his love for

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Lots of changes this week, the most prominent is the new login system on the homepage which you can read more about [here] Site version: 1.2 Chat Version: 1.1 New things Adjusted chat sizing slightly Added more homepage videos and removed inline styling Added user login and registration system Added forgotten password system Added ...

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It’s been a fun two weeks here on Social Savanna, we’ve had a bunch of newbies, we played SoSa hide and seek (You can watch it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1Qxm2dO6BE) and the mobile site is almost rebuilt! finally! This Sunday we’ll be playing Cards against humanity and possibly some other web based games, if you want ...

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Every week, we’ll be posting a “Community Digest” like this to the blog so every know what’s going on, see discussions and blog articles they might have missed 🙂 Over the next few weeks, these will include great members, conversations we enjoyed, things inside the community and even meetups! A more personalized version of this

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I pitched! it was scary and fun at the same time and I was part of a World Record. Unfortunately it wasn’t enough and we didn’t get through to the semi-finals,  we’re still waiting for for feedback and as soon as I have the video I’ll post it for you to see but in ...

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We did it! Last week, I asked you all to vote for us in the VOOM competition. Well guess what? We’re through! and now in just a few days, I get to pitch to Peter Kelly (MD of Virgin Media Business), Andy Fishburn (Head of Investment at Virgin), Julie Deane (Founder of the Cambridge ...

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