shaunSocial 1.5.2 Released – Smarter, Faster & More Customizable

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We’re excited to introduce shaunSocial version 1.5.2, a major update focused on performance, smarter moderation, better admin experience, and deeper customization. This release brings powerful new tools to help site owners manage their communities more efficiently while enhancing the overall user experience.

Key features in ShaunSocial 1.5.2?

Progressive Web App (PWA) Support

  • shaunSocial is now PWA-ready, allowing your community to be installed directly on users’ devices.
  • App-like experience without app store submission
  • Faster loading and smoother navigation
  • Improved engagement on mobile and desktop

AI Moderation Tool

  • Managing content just got smarter.
  • Automatically detect inappropriate, spam, or harmful content
  • Reduce manual moderation workload
  • Help maintain a safe and healthy community environment
  • This feature is especially valuable for public communities, schools, and creator platforms.

Photo Watermarking

  • Protect your content and brand with photo watermark support.
  • Automatically add watermarks to uploaded images on feeds
  • Ideal for creators, premium communities, and branded platforms
  • Helps prevent unauthorized content reuse

Custom CSS Injection

  • Gain full control over your site’s appearance.
  • Add custom CSS directly from Admin Panel
  • Override default styles without editing core files
  • Perfect for branding, layout tweaks, and advanced customization

Admin Panel UI Improvements

  • We’ve redesigned and refined the Admin Control Panel to be more intuitive and user-friendly.
  • Cleaner layout
  • Improved navigation
  • Faster access to frequently used settings
  • Managing your site is now simpler and more efficient.

Small improvement & bug fixing

Alongside the above key features, version 1.5.2 includes various optimizations, small improvement and bug fixing to ensure a smoother and more reliable experience across the platform.

  • When translating in the Chrome browser, the display switches between night and day mode in some parts.
  • The feed is not shown when changing the Timezone
  • Make the Music pop down box wider when creating a Story as you cannot see the song titles fully.
  • In the desktop version in the Safari browser, the VIBB cannot be moved using the arrow
  • Improve speed of the like button
  • Why do the play features stay on the screen, shouldn’t they disappear after a few seconds, see https://demo.shaunsocial.com/post/4467 
  • Improve show/hide button of the warning content
  • Name characters should be limited. This looks bad and will be abused. https://demo.shaunsocial.com/post/4491 
  • Page switching issue
  • Page switching improvement to allow switch between pages or users instead of switch back to user first
  • Added option to disable pages plugin
  • Can’t our withdrawal payment details be saved instead of being asked for every time
  • Hide user that already follow from user suggestion page https://demo.shaunsocial.com/users/suggest
  • Realtime Notification on top of the feed to let me know know that there is x new posts like x.com does
  • Send email also in case of verification request is rejected instead of only send notification

Next steps 

👉 Existing customers: 

  • New versions are available to download at client area
  • Mobile apps are not fully compatible with version 1.5.2 yet. It will work but the new features from 1.5.2 will not show on apps.
  • ShaunSocial cloud: Ready to upgrade. Contact us to request for upgrading. 

Rest api is updated at here

👉 New customers: Try ShaunSocial 1.5.2 today and see how easy it is to launch your own social network.

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

💡 We’d love your feedback as we continue shaping the future of ShaunSocial!

Happy exploring! 🌟

Regards,

shaunSocial Team