ShaunSocial v1.4 Release 🚀

We’re excited to introduce ShaunSocial version 1.4, a significant update that brings powerful new features and valuable improvements to enhance your social networking experience. The highlight of this release is the Paid Content Module, empowering users to create and share exclusive content behind a paywall, opening new opportunities for monetization and premium community engagement.

In addition to this major feature, version 1.4 includes a wide range of performance enhancements, UI improvements, and bug fixes that make the platform smoother, faster, and more reliable than ever. Below are list of changes and addressed bugs in this version.

• Option to “Remove the Chat icon on the bottom right”
• Can you hotfix the “Copyright by Sitename . English” on the footer of our site so that there is not an extra space after Sitename before the period? See https://demo.shaunsocial.com/post/2543 
• Add “Create Vibb” button in to what’s new box 
• when i like a video or reel the video pause, is this problem on my end only

• auto play video Issue at https://demo.shaunsocial.com/post/2481 
• should hide the chat icon from iPad view because it’s there at footer https://demo.shaunsocial.com/post/2556 
• Show undefine URL https://demo.shaunsocial.com/post/2083 
•  Allow to show video in full screen on mobile web https://demo.shaunsocial.com/post/2336 
• Option for tall logo type 
• sending gif take a lot time, and user doesnt know if it sending yet, because there is delay between you press which gif you choose and it show in chat See https://prnt.sc/EL8E8EdFWRGj 
• add cloudflare turnstile to combat spam registration (reCAPTCHA no longer free) 
• Field privacy settings
• Verified user changing their name stays verified
• Option to hide follow tags and follow user from the sign up process
• it’s not possible to zoom in on the image on phone, so it’s so small that nothing can be seen. 
• I would change the arrows and the bottom dots to make them more visible, as they are hard to see right now. see more details at https://demo.shaunsocial.com/post/2566
• Shouldn’t this show the total comments, including replies? https://demo.shaunsocial.com/post/2201 
• SEO issue with the homepage, see more at https://demo.shaunsocial.com/post/2611  and https://demo.shaunsocial.com/post/2346 
• Discovery page: should randomly display daily based on the weight: likes, comments and time.
• Don’t send notification + show report if ads is paused
• improve vibb how come i watch same reels in 1st every time i go to vibb ? your sorting ur vibb from latest instead even though alogarithim cant work on small vibb make atleast random
• Improve the scroll bar at left-banner.It looks not good in dark mode 
• Popup when member does not have permission. More at https://demo.shaunsocial.com/post/2081 
• Theme settings for new modules: allow you change color of new module like poll, groups…in admin panel
• I would change the arrows and the bottom dots to make them more visible, as they are hard to see right now. see more details at https://demo.shaunsocial.com/post/2566 
• Poll system improve: don’t show results if member has not voted yet or unvoted https://demo.shaunsocial.com/post/2762 
• Added media tab to profile, see https://demo.shaunsocial.com/post/2572
• back arrow of Vibb module always taking you to homepage. See https://demo.shaunsocial.com/post/2734 
• membership levels: show badge about current level of users, see https://demo.shaunsocial.com/post/2606 
• Custom landing page: allow you to have 2 options for landing page. Default one work as it and the other one will look like the Discovery page (can view update without login)
• Added “mark all read option” into the notification
• Fixed video upload issue on IOS
• Voice record in message/chage
• Option to turn on/off comment for a post
• Added joined date to profile
• Phone verification step for sign up
• Groups: does not allow to edit the approved post: https://demo.shaunsocial.com/post/2253 
• When mention someone, should show full name instead of username
• Don’t send notification + show report if ads is paused https://demo.shaunsocial.com/post/2206 
• Pin post for profile, home (admin only) and pages https://demo.shaunsocial.com/post/2314 
• Invited mode only
• Option to zoom, rotate photo
• Paid content plugin 
• When you share a group to your profile and then delete the post, it deletes the whole group… https://demo.shaunsocial.com/post/3287 
• Auto-renewal notification is sent incorrectly
• can’t make paragraphs with enter when writing comments on mobile web https://demo.shaunsocial.com/post/3215 
• It inserts a long string of characters when sending email in the chat room
• Mobile web: bottom icons doesn’t show where you are https://demo.shaunsocial.com/post/3151 
• Can’t play video from youtube short link
• Added Unblocked posts” in list + “Paid media” in profile
• Can’t find the edit and delete comment options https://demo.shaunsocial.com/post/3064 
• Stories continue to play in the background https://demo.shaunsocial.com/post/3067 
• Icon do not change to colored https://demo.shaunsocial.com/post/3076 
• Sound overlap issue in vibb module
• Icon to upload photo at home page should be same as icon to upload photo in modal popup
• No users are shown in Lists->Blocking issue
• Unidentified comment error https://demo.shaunsocial.com/post/2978 
• The post box was hidden by iOS typing suggestion https://demo.shaunsocial.com/post/2999 
• Blocked users show at suggested user block issue
• Story view icon change 
• The first comment overlaps with the “Add comment” box. https://demo.shaunsocial.com/post/2926 
• Vibb issue on tablet https://demo.shaunsocial.com/post/2921 
• Hitting that heart icon is often a struggle (in the phone browser)… it’s too small and too close to the edge. It would be better if it were bigger, like it is in the app. https://demo.shaunsocial.com/post/2884 
• Change suggest users + hashtag at sign up: suggested users: Show trending users like the “Trending user” block at discovery page. Suggested tags: show trending tags like the “Trending tags” block at discovery page
• Add option to collapse the text on Vibb
• Attach link when sharing post with photo/video…the link can’t click, see https://demo.shaunsocial.com/post/3377
•  And a lot of other small improvements 

Below are some importance notes for the new version:

• New versions are available to download at client area
• Mobile apps are not fully compatible with version 1.4 yet. Don’t upgrade if you have apps also.  If you upgrade, apps can work but the new features are not available on apps
• ShaunSocial cloud: Ready to upgrade. Contact us to request for upgrading. 
• Rest api is updated at here

DO NOT upgrade your live site and app until you have a full backup of your site’s files, database and have successfully performed a test upgrade on your development (test) site first.

Suggestions and bug report, please share at here

We do provide upgrading service, please purchase the service here if you’re interested

Stay tuned for more updates and keep sharing your feedback with us! 💬

Happy exploring! 🌟
Regards,
shaunSocial Team

Some screenshots of paid content module