ACTION NEEDED BY SOCIALGO

i agree with all of that , without your upgrades soon i will must to go to another service cause my website has no luck to support hundred of members on line , without all of this above :(

I agree 100% with you guys, without these upgrades we will not be able to compete period!

I'm totally agree with you guys. We need those things to secure our network. We need some great applications like: music ILike, flickr photo upload directly from the network and more. We need to grow by building people interest to stay in our communities.

I think there are 3 major problems;

1. Transparency and information scattered over 3 sites. (This, owners and blog).
2. Basic functions as message members, bulletins, notification e-mails are not working at all since a few days back.

no friend chat , no friend activity no video relates ,no multiplayer games ,no video player to profile, no e-cards no e-gifts ,no ajax (comments), no suggestions for friends / non of this , aren't to the next updates ?and with some bugs on my website , i think there is no luck to my website , i must think seriously what i must do . :( :( :(

everyone wants related videos , friend chat , friend activity ajax (comments) and multiplayer games , at least that .Send me a website from s.g. that can have hundred, i will not say thousand, just hundred, members online , i think there is no website , and the reason is all above that i have said, you have great services but without all above there is no luck for someone to create a website with hundred members online and i want to have hundred members online , if someone wants 5-10-50 persons online you have great services , how my website can have 400 persons online ? with this video chat without friend chat and anyone can write anything without my control of the logs ? and any one can talk to any one ? how i will find my friends in 400 members online? , without interact reply on comments ? without having all my members a multiplayer game to play ?

i think they will go to other networks that will have and their friends and their multiplayer games and their interact comments and the choice to talk with their friends or with every person they prefer , and to send card and gifts, and to create quiz , i think all of these reasons is enough someone to go to another website and stay . i dont say other features i just said the basic features , and features that almost everyone wants .

I have a very beautiful and great website thanks for that , but with 5-10-20-30-40 members online , and have no luck for more .

you told me that 'The purpose of this thread is for you to tell us what you need'
yes i need all of this and not only me and a lot of other people , and i dont have a remote pc to set up by myself . and i have a social network website , and a social network website in 2009 must have all this i said , because if i dont have all of this ,i dont have a social network, in 2009 is there any way someone to stay to your website when he cant see where is his friends and how to talk to them and cant see their activity ? why someone to log in to s.g. website ? to see all activity of whole world :P this does not care anyone and if you disagree look some great websites with s.g. that has thousand members and no one online .

some pics that i like a lot ,

Related games and multiplayer games, with high score of each member
and a friend chat from comet chat , like facebook-orkut style , of course i love the s.g. video chat but if could be more private or with choice to have only your friends.
the other pic is : related videos as youtube has , but this pic is from libero.it

Cristoforous,

We all want a lot of Widgets, but as Alex says, the need is very individual. The network I'm running is not all interested in any kind of games, dating, e-gift or e-cards.

We need classified ad tool, job posting tool.

I think we can cathegorize our needs in 3 major classes:

1. Basic functionality and a robust systems. Unfortunately, the basic system is not robust. e-mails fail, log in fails, news widgets don't work... there's a number of small basic problems to fix.

2. A load of widgets in all kind of cathegories. Let's hope SG can attract several widget makers with different profiles.

3. Transparency!!! Please SocalGo, 3 sources of information is 2 to much. And when things go wrong, tell us!! When W-L left, tell us what happend. You didn't pay their bills, you had a fight at the pub or they ran away with your money? I don't care, but tell us. Don't ask me to check my spam setting when your e-mail servers are malfunctioning. Give us a roadmap, not various blog post that don't match. Tell us about your team, your company...

In other words, SG get yourself a marketing guy.

Most of the basic problems are gone, not all but a lot of problems is gone. I agree with many things you said but, ididnt mean that everyone needs to his network all the things i said ,but if someone wants to have a social network website with many members on line, all the feature that rob announce is right , and dont forget that many s.g. website owners agree with this announce ;-)
so i dont care if someone doesnt need these features , because maybe he doesnt want a website with many persons online or he cant understand the meaning of social network .
And don't forget :
the best social networks in the world, at least 10 has at least most of this features , thats my answer to you and to alex ,

( not like twitter, i mean like FB,hi5,myspace,netlog,badoo,libero etc )

i am not selling clothes or computers , i have a social network ,

if we cant have all these features because has a lot of cost to create them , then ok , to announce s.g. that
so, dont wait s.g. owners that features ,and decide what they have to do

1+1=2
so
Rob with this announce , said a way that S.G. owners can create a website that can have
a lot of members online, because OUR WEBSITES DOESN'T HAVE MEMBERS ONLINE AND WE CANT DO NOTHING ABOUT THAT WITHOUT THE HELP FROM SOCIAL GO.

Is there anyone s.g. website owner or EMPLOYEE , that can announce us other better features , for having
more traffic to our websites ? Because now there arent any s.g. websites with many members online.

This started out as a list of 10 ( I was going to do 5 and 5 in each section... but I went over a bit...)

Rob's List

Top Back-End Wishes
1.) Support for a service like RPX.com. 1 widget per sign-on service will start to get pricey
2.) User management: a mass-recycle function, to expunge members who have left and wipe their content.
3.) Email validation for existing members. If their messages are a hard bounce - don't let them login until they update their email.
4.) Auditing and Reporting - easy setup of reports to be viewed or emailed: "new members this week", "members who cancelled this week", etc.
5.) More granular control for members to publically display information on a private network (like facebook) using a vanity URL. i.e. http://network.com/robby will load the framework for the network and perhaps a thumbnail of the user (if selected by the user)
6.) An externally hosted SocialGo-Status page - showing green/red lights for the systems that make up the hosting environment... i.e. webservers all up, but email is back-logged/down, etc.
7.) A development roadmap: including features, target quarters for release. i.e. Chat: Q3-09

Top Member-Facing Wishes
1.) Familiar chat interface (comet-chat), but also the ability to create/join room-based chat with more than 1 other
2.) More Ajax in interface. Eliminate page refreshes while adding a friend request, or updating status
3.) Allow for selection of displayed users, videos, photos in "featured" blocks, by letting Admins select which items to feature.
4.) Allow individual users to select an RSS feed as their blog source (for those users who have external blogs already)
5.) Allow users (or admins), to rss-enable socialgo-hosted blogs for consumption by external apps (supporting authentication, where required by the setting of the individual network)
6.) Extend the rating system (now available on videos) to photographs, blog entries, etc., and provide a link to the listing of "highest rated blog/video/photo"

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Example of Status Page:

Very good ideas i like it alot and i hope that these ideas will be used! And christoforos that CometChat looks amazing would be so good if we were able to intergrate it into our networks.

@ christoforos,

Just wanna make this clear, i was talking to you and not to Rob or anybody else.

I think you misread some things so i'm correcting that ;

1> YOU said "many SG owners agree with you"
I was only pointing out that i only see 5..

If you can back it up that "many" network owners want the same things you want then i'm pretty sure SG will put them higher on their list..

I dont give a dam for quiz and e-cards/gifts.
I have a multi-player section on my network already.
I dont want anything to do with Facebook!

The thing i want the most is a group-chat, and thats coming real soon.

2> Where did you see thousand people online? I talked about 100+, I'm not putting websites addresses on a public forum if i dont have the permission from that network owner.

And yes, I do care about other networks that have less members online then the network owner would like to see, but only more feature/widgets will not automatically gives you more members online.

3> Didn't you see Alex's plan above..?

4> I just told you!

The future of your website is also the future of SG, so dont worry just be patient..
I'm almost a year on the SG platform now, and they always delivered their promises, sometimes it took a bit longer then expected (hoped) but thats life..

I didn't told anybody how they MUST talk! I only gave my opinion!!

cbox is just a simple nice chat / . and please if someone wants to answer me again personal , to tell me and which is his website .otherwise please dont talk to me. because i want to talk only with persons that has serious and quality website.
thank you

Another "nice to have" would be the ability for the users to choose the language for the interface...

i.e. let each user override the default language dictionary for the network.

Custom Offline Message With Contact Info, Twitter, & E-Mail Notifications

I'm planning on a very strong marketing and PR campaign in Nov. and Dec. With the outages, which I know to be unplanned, it would be very reassuring to have an offline message than can:
1. Be customized with my site header, theme, and contact information
2. Show server status
3. Send me an email and tweet anytime the site is down
4: Include my twitter widget so I can tweet my own updates
5. Link to an my Twitter account and an email form to request contact info for those visitors I may miss during the offline time.

This would greatly help reduce some of my anxieties. Thanks!

SocialGo should focus on server/database/infrastructure redundancy, continuity, and security. Some of the above wishlist features mean nothing compared to the must-have services required to keep our websites operating with little downtime.

With that said, the API is key to site owner scalability for verticle features. However I'll keep my SocialGo demands focused the need for a Service Level Agreement which requires 0.01% downtime or less.
-Mikey

Well said Mikey...I agree 100%!

With a reliable SLA and the API intact (and well documented) the SG community can get busy investing time and money into our personal customizations, as well as free and commercial widgets. I was logged in on day one of the Joomla Extension directory, when it had just a few component and module options from the Mambo precursor. Now it's inspiring to see 3624 listings created by the community.

The network is down as we speak..... How about a maintenance schedule?
Also u mentioned translation of emails And errors, I need that but also translation capability for the signup instructions, and the email verification instructions page, payment pending text, and the image verification instructions, in fact why not let us edit the sign up page? And include other info we may need on sign up?

Friends, I don't think you can expect SocialGO to be a facebook or myspace. While I like most of the features that have been suggested (except the gifts... Ning just did that and it was really annoying) SocialGO is still a young company, just now coming into their own as far as social networking goes. Be patient!

When we decided to use SocialGO as one of our social networks, we evaluated the advantages and disadvantages of a network... and your complaints are some of the things you either had considered when you used SocialGO or should have considered when you moved to SocialGO.

I honestly believe that the guys behind the scenes at SocialGO are working their hardest to provide the best product they can, but it cannot happen over night! I would encourage you to be patient and provide your feedback and suggestions in a constructive manner, as canada.rob did to begin this topic.

I understand it takes a while to make some of these changes, but what I don't understand is why we have to pay for it. Many other engines such as Ning, allow us to use half of the features that you have to pay for on SocialGO, for free. Why is that?

Because Ning has had over $117,000,000 pumped into it... SocialGO has not.

action needed for this weekend, we loose al the apps from WL. Sgo can solve this with the chat app

we loose all the apps from WL ? what do y mean ?