Development Blog: Week 6 – 29

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 was best to try and summarise all the changes that happened the last few months, then from next week you’ll see weekly updates again 🙂

Website / General

• Re-branded from Social Savanna to SoSa
• Re-branded Facebook, Twitter and our Youtube channel
• Re-built homepage to have “live feed” of chat, show discussions and generally make it clearer what the site is about.
• Created e-mails for new domain, [email protected],  [email protected], [email protected], [email protected]
• Huge overhaul of the socket server, PM’s and notifications should come through without interruption now.
• Built and integrated new API service for apps
• Introduced lock / key security mechanism for devices (to help prevent hijacking of sessions)
• Rebuilt chat server and added redundancy
• Built redundancy server for the main site
• Added more “banned” keywords to giphy
• Introduced “NSFK” (not safe for kevin) tag
• Started new socket based chat server to move away from XMPP server and allow better scaling and more integrated features
• Started new dashboard layout

Android App

• Deleted half the code base
• Fixed issue with blank screen
• Added chat embeds
• Moved Chat settings to their own screen
• Added Dark theme
• Created sync mechanism for configuration between app and server
• Fixed 4/172 of Danda’s bugs list
• Fixed logins
• Secured login system
• Added next meetup to the homescreen and removed feed
• General clean up

iOS (Not live)

• Rebuilt in Phonegap to speed up development
• Created logins
• Created homescreen  (with next meetup)
• Created Private messaging
• Created Discussions
• Added commenting
• Created Chat
• Implemented multiple rooms
• Implemented Commands + user menu
• Implemented notifications
• Started Settings screen