Community Surveys 8.0 is the biggest release we've ever shipped. The component, the modules, the plugins, the public survey, the admin panels, the email templates: all of it has been redesigned with a focus on three things that survey authors keep asking us for. Faster authoring with AI. A look that matches your brand without writing CSS. Rules that go beyond "skip to page 3".

If you've been on v7, the upgrade is automatic and your existing surveys keep working. Here's what's waiting for you on the other side.

AI built into the survey builder

The headline change in v8 is AI assistance everywhere it matters. Not a chatbot tacked onto a sidebar, but a set of focused helpers that show up at exactly the moments you'd otherwise stare at a blank field.

Generate a complete survey from a description

Open the builder, click Build with AI, and describe what you want.

"Onboarding feedback for a SaaS product, twelve to fifteen questions, mix of NPS, multiple-choice, and free text. Cover first-week experience, feature discovery, and support quality."

A few seconds later you get a complete proposal: pages, question types, titles, options, the lot. Every item shows up in a diff-style modal where you can tick which ones to keep, edit the wording before saving, or discard the whole batch and try a different prompt. Nothing reaches your live survey until you say so.

Suggest answer options

Type a question title and click the sparkle button next to the options list. The assistant proposes a set of options based on what you typed.

Question: "What's your primary role?"

Suggestions: Engineer, Designer, Product Manager, Marketing, Sales, Support, Operations, Founder/Executive, Other.

You can accept all, accept some, or write your own. The suggestions are starting points, not commandments.

Suggest grid rows and columns

Matrix and grid questions have always been the most tedious to author. v8 changes that.

Question: "Rate each product on these factors"

Suggested rows: Product A, Product B, Product C Suggested columns: Price, Quality, Ease of use, Customer support, Overall value

One click and the grid is populated. Edit anything that doesn't fit and you're done.

Translate a whole survey into any language

Pick a target language and the assistant rewrites every question, option, description, validation message, and end-of-survey copy in that language. The structure stays intact, so a single survey can serve respondents in multiple languages simultaneously.

This is the same engine that powered the v7 translation feature, but now it works on more than just questions: presets, validation messages, and the new follow-up email template all translate through the same flow.

Translate reusable answer presets

If you've built a country list, a satisfaction scale, or any preset you reuse across surveys, the assistant translates it once and every survey that uses it picks up the translation automatically.

Ten beautiful themes, and a Design tab to make them yours

Survey design has always been the place v7 admins burned the most time. v8 makes it the easy part.

Ten ready-made themes

Browse the new Theming page and pick from ten designs that ship out of the box, each tuned for a different audience:

• Swiss Sage (default): Calm sage with a clean neutral surface
• Ink Slate: Editorial neutral with a deep slate-grey accent
• Terracotta: Warm ochre on cream, gentler for academic research
• Indigo Editorial: Bold indigo on a tight neutral surface
• Marigold Studio: Energetic amber for product feedback
• Coral Bloom: Soft coral on a warm surface, friendly and inviting
• Pacific Mist: Calm teal, suited to healthcare and wellness
• Carbon Pro: Sharp crimson on a tight neutral surface, power-user dense
• Midnight Plum: Premium violet on a warm surface, luxury brand feel
• Forest Lab: Emerald with generous radii, modern product feel

Each one is fully developed: typography pairings, colour relationships, spacing rhythm, corner radius, dark-mode behaviour. You can use any of them as-is.

The new Design tab

Every survey now has its own Design tab in the builder. Pick a base theme, then customise it for that specific survey without touching the theme itself:

• Accent colour picker
• Font pairing picker (Inter Tight, Geist, Instrument Serif, Söhne, and more)
• Corner radius slider, from crisp to soft
• Density toggle (compact, medium, airy)
• Surface tone (neutral or warm)
• Custom CSS for the one edge case where you need it

A live preview on the right shows the result while you tweak. Save and the public survey picks up the new look immediately.

A rules engine that actually does what you want

The "Conditional Rules" feature in v7 covered the basics: show, hide, skip to page, end. v8 turns that into a proper engine with fourteen action types covering every survey workflow we've seen in customer requests. Here's a tour of what you can now do.

Pre-fill answers from URLs, earlier answers, or the user profile

Open a question's Advanced tab and add one or more Pre-fill sources:

• URL parameter lets you pass ?campaign=summer2026 and have it populate the matching question.
• Earlier answer copies a value from another question in the same survey ("you said your name is Alice, please confirm").
• Contact field reads from the signed-in Joomla user's profile (name, email, username, id).

Sources try in order, first non-empty wins. Respondents can always overtype the pre-filled value, but for most fields they won't need to.

Pipe answers into later questions

The classic merge-tag pattern, now syntactically friendly. Type {{q3.label}} into a later question's title, description, option label, or email, and the respondent's earlier answer flows through. With a fallback you never show an awkward empty placeholder: {{first_name|there}} renders "there" if the respondent hasn't told you their name yet.

Carry options forward

Show in question six only the options the respondent picked in question four. Or hide them, for a "what didn't you mention?" variant. Composes cleanly with quota caps in the same render pass.

Randomise option order, with pins

Each respondent sees the options in a stable random order, so reloads and resume-from-email don't surprise them. Different respondents see different orders, eliminating order bias. Pin "Other" or "Prefer not to say" as always last so it doesn't get lost in the shuffle.

Cap an option to N respondents

"Pick a workshop time slot." Once 20 people pick 9am, the option disappears for everyone else. If two people race for the last slot, the server picks a winner and asks the other to choose again. No double-booking, no manual cleanup.

Jump to named sections

Page jumps used to break the moment you reordered pages. Now every page has a stable slug (eligibility, thank-you-promoter) that rules target. Move pages around and your rules keep pointing at the right place.

Run A/B experiments

Half your respondents see flow A, half see flow B. Or split three ways. The assignment is stable per respondent (resuming from email lands them on the same flow) and resolves the same way on the server, so analytics stays consistent.

Disqualify with a reason

When a screening rule ends the survey early, the reason you wrote shows up on the response list as a "Disqualified" badge, in the response detail as a callout, and in the CSV export as a dedicated column. No more guessing why a respondent didn't finish.

Score and segment respondents

Build a points formula visually: pick a question, multiply it, add another question, divide by a literal. Save as a named score. Then bucket the score into named segments ("0-6 detractor, 7-8 passive, 9-10 promoter") and the response inherits the tags. Segments become filters in Analytics, and later rules can branch on them.

Validate across fields

"End date must be after start date." "Allocations must total 100%." Build the predicate visually from two operands and a comparator. The check runs in the browser for instant feedback and runs again on the server so it can't be skipped.

Make a question required only when needed

A "please explain" field becomes mandatory only when the answer to a prior question matches. No more permanently-required follow-ups that 90% of respondents have to skip past.

Tag responses

Auto-apply short labels (vip, churn-risk, enterprise-detractor) when conditions match. Filter on them in Analytics.

Notify Slack, webhooks, or any email address

When an NPS detractor submits, ping #cs-escalations with the response details. When a VIP completes a survey, post to a webhook that creates a ticket. Pipe respondent answers into the alert ("{{q_5_email}} rated us a 3"). Slack messages use Block Kit and look good in the channel.

Queue a follow-up survey

When a power user finishes a feedback survey, send them an invitation to a deeper survey, automatically. The follow-up uses a dedicated email template (more on that below) so the recipient sees a continuation, not a generic broadcast.

Auto-close the survey

"Stop accepting responses once we hit 500." "Close after business hours." A single rule does it.

Schedule, locale, and device gating

Every rule's condition can also check the current context: time of day, day of week, deadline date, respondent's language and country, device class (mobile, tablet, desktop), and response-quality flags (speeder, straight-liner, honeypot trip, IP throttle).

Beautiful emails, finally

The email side of v7 worked, but the templates looked dated and editing them meant hunting through HTML. v8 fixes both.

A redesigned template system

Every email now flows through a shared base wrapper with your logo, primary colour, and footer wired in automatically. The output renders well in Gmail, Outlook (including the older Outlook clients with VML fallbacks for the call-to-action button), Apple Mail, and every major webmail provider we tested against.

A dedicated Email templates screen

The admin now has a Email templates screen that lists every email the component can send:

• Invitation
• Invitation reminder
• Response thank-you
• New response (to author)
• New survey (to site admin)
• Survey created (to author)
• Survey published (broadcast)
• Survey closed (results summary)
• Follow-up survey invitation (new in v8, used by the follow-up rule)

For each template you can see the shipped default and the current effective output side by side, edit subject and body, browse the variables in a picker above the editor, use Handlebars-style conditionals for sections that only render in some cases, preview with example data, and revert if your override doesn't pan out.

Brand variables ({{site_name}}, {{primary_color}}, {{email_logo_html}}, {{footer_text}}) compute once per send so every template stays consistent with your settings.

A Thank-you page worth landing on

The last screen a respondent sees is the easiest one to get right and the easiest one to get wrong. v8 gives the Thank-you page its own builder tab and three modes to pick from.

Three modes

• Message. A clean confirmation page with your headline, body, and a call-to-action. The simplest case.
• User answers. A recap of every answer the respondent gave. Useful for forms that double as agreements or applications.
• Consolidated report. A live aggregate showing how everyone's responses add up so far. Useful for polls and "live results" surveys. Access is gated by a one-shot key issued at submit time, so the URL can't be scraped.

Full customisation

Inside the Thanks tab you can author every part of the page:

• Eyebrow (the small label above the headline) and headline copy
• Body in auto mode (use the survey's thank-you message), custom mode (your own HTML), or hidden
• "What's next" chips with icons (check, calendar, mail, lock, share, sparkles, clock, users) and a short line of text per chip
• Back-to-survey and Share button labels
• Toggles for the badge, response stats, what's-next section, action buttons, share buttons, and trust footer

Different surveys can end with different post-submit experiences. A feedback survey can end with a thank-you message and a CTA. A poll can end with the live report. An application form can end with the recap. All from the same builder tab.

Two ways to author rules, side by side

The builder ships with two authoring surfaces for rules, and they share the same underlying data:

• The Flow tab is a visual graph. Each question card shows its outgoing rules as a fan of labelled exits ("if = Yes, go to Q5", "if NPS ≤ 6, end with message"). Click any exit to open an inline editor.
• The Logic tab on a selected question is a compact list. Scroll, edit, save. Faster when you know exactly which question's rules you want to tweak.

Switch between them freely. Both edit the same rules, both show the same authoring controls. Whichever fits your brain that day is the right one.

Built-in protection against bots and bad responses

Three layers of anti-spam and quality protection ship in v8, all configurable per survey and all surfaced through the same rule system you use for everything else.

• Honeypot field rendered invisibly. Bots fill it; humans never see it. Flagged on the response when it arrives populated.
• Minimum completion time. Responses faster than your threshold get flagged as speeders.
• IP throttle. When the same IP submits more than ten responses to the same survey within an hour, the extras get flagged.
• Straight-line detection for matrix questions. Same column on every row flags the response.

By default these flag responses but don't reject them, so you keep the data for analysis. If you want hard rejection on top, a single rule does it: "When $quality.honeypot = 1, end the survey with a polite message."

A faster, friendlier admin

Plenty of UX polish landed in v8 even outside the big features:

• Survey list now shows a sparkline of recent activity, a status badge, the response counter, and a one-click chart button that jumps straight to that survey's Analytics.
• Responses screen has a "Disqualified" badge variant for end-rule responses and surfaces the reason in a callout in the detail panel.
• CSV export carries the new end_reason column and a disqualified status value so analysts can filter early-termination respondents into their own cohort.
• Cold-load polish. Opening the admin no longer flashes a black panel before the page paints. The mount area picks up your colour mode (light, dark, or auto) from the start.

Five integrations, one consistent setup

The Integrations screen has been redesigned around a marketplace pattern. Browse adapters, configure with a wizard, see what fired in an Activity log:

• Webhook. Generic JSON POST to any URL, with optional HMAC-SHA256 signing so receivers can verify each payload really came from your site.
• Slack. Block Kit messages via incoming webhook URL or bot token.
• Google Sheets. OAuth2 sign-in, sheet picker, automatic header sync, per-field mapping.
• AcyMailing. Add respondents to a list when a rule fires.
• Email Notification (new in v8). Free-form transactional email to any address, including respondent-supplied addresses via pipe placeholders.

Failed deliveries retry automatically with exponential back-off. The Activity tab shows every attempt with its outcome.

Compatibility and upgrade

• Joomla 5.0+ or 6.0+ (unchanged from v7)
• PHP 8.1+ (unchanged from v7)
• MySQL 5.7+ or MariaDB 10.3+ (unchanged from v7)
• Shondalai Core Library 1.0+ (a one-time install, bundled with the package)

To upgrade:

1. Back up your site (always).
2. Install the v8 package over your current install.
3. Open the component once. The database upgrade runs automatically.
4. Open your existing surveys and verify everything looks right.

Your existing surveys, questions, rules, responses, contacts, invitations, and integrations are all preserved. Legacy conditional rules from v7 are translated to the new format on first read. Nothing in your data needs to change.

Get started today

Community Surveys 8.0 is available now.

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• User documentation
• Rules engine guide
• Full changelog
• Support

Questions? Hit us up on the support forum or drop a note via the contact form. We read everything.

We are pleased to announce that Community Polls 7 is now available for Joomla 5 and 6.

This is the largest update we have shipped to the component since we took it over years ago. The admin has been rebuilt from scratch as a React app, the email layer has been moved to file-based templates with a proper editor, and the poll editor has gained optional AI helpers. The voting, embedding, and public listing pages have all received practical improvements as well.

The rest of this post walks through what changed and what you should know before upgrading.

A New Admin, Built as a React Application

The biggest visible change is the admin. The previous admin was a traditional Joomla MVC interface with separate pages for every action. The new admin is a single-page application that loads once and never refreshes the page as you move around.

What this means in practice:

• The dashboard, polls list, results view, audience view, settings page, and email templates manager all share the same shell. Switching between them is instant.
• Bulk publish, feature, and delete actions work directly from the polls list with keyboard shortcuts.
• Per-poll vote breakdowns include daily activity charts and a one-click CSV export.
• The whole admin supports light mode, dark mode, and follows the operating system preference.

If you have been managing Community Polls on a busy site, the difference in day-to-day speed is obvious within a few minutes.

AI Helpers Inside the Poll Editor

Version 7 adds three optional AI helpers to the poll editor. They are off by default. When you connect the site to the Shondalai AI service, three buttons become available inside the editor:

• Suggest options. You type a poll title and the AI returns a starting set of answer options. Each one can be accepted, edited, or removed before saving.
• Summarise results. The AI reads the live result distribution and returns a few plain sentences that you can paste into a follow-up article, email, or social post.
• Cluster custom answers. When a poll allows free-text answers, the AI groups similar responses so you can see the underlying themes instead of scrolling through every reply.

Each helper runs only when you click it. There is no background processing, no automatic suggestions, and no data sent until you ask. AI access is a single Shondalai subscription that covers every Shondalai component on your site, so connecting once unlocks the helpers everywhere.

If you would rather not use AI, leave the toggle off, and nothing in the editor changes from the rest of the workflow.

File-Based Email Templates With an Editor and Preview

Version 6 stored email templates as database rows. Version 7 stores them as HTML files  media/com_communitypolls/emails/ with a shared base.html wrapper that supplies the header, footer, and brand chrome.

The new email templates manager in the admin lets you:

• Edit the HTML side-by-side with a variables panel that inserts {POLL_TITLE}, {VOTER_NAME}, and the rest at the cursor with one click.
• Preview at desktop and mobile widths against realistic sample data.
• Send a test email to any address to see how it lands in real inboxes.
• Reset any template back to the version that shipped if an edit goes wrong.

Three templates ship by default: a new-poll notification, a new-vote notification, and a moderation request that includes one-click approve and reject links. The links are token-based, so admins do not need to log in to action the moderation queue.

Brand chrome (logo, header title and subtitle, brand colour, body and page colours, footer text) lives in one place — the new Email branding section under Settings. Every template inherits these values, so you change them once and every notification updates.

Single-choice and multiple-choice polls remain unchanged.

Column Counts for Public Listings

The public Polls and Categories pages now have a configurable column count. You set the number of columns at desktop width, between one and six, in Settings → Display. Mobile devices always use a single column, and tablets cap at two columns regardless of the desktop setting, so the layout stays readable on every screen.

Modernised Plugins

Every bundled plugin has been updated to the modern Joomla 5/6 namespace pattern with proper service providers and PSR-4 autoloading:

• Content plugin: the {poll id=...} shortcode now supports mode, layout, and link attributes for finer control over how the embedded poll renders.
• Editor button: the Joomla editor's Poll button opens a searchable picker with status and category filters; you click a poll, and the shortcode is inserted.
• Smart Search: polls are indexed with author, category, poll type, and featured-status taxonomies for cleaner search results.
• Privacy: the GDPR export and removal flow now covers every table the component uses, including abuse reports filed anonymously by email.
• Community Polls events: handles points awards, activity stream entries, badge triggers, and email notifications. It now uses the file-based templates with full brand chrome.

Other Improvements

• The voting service now dispatches before-save and after-save events, so third-party plugins can hook into the vote lifecycle without patching the core.
• The approval service emits an after-approve event that the events plugin uses to send a "your poll is now live" notification.
• The new Categories module surfaces categories with poll counts and a glimpse of the most recent poll per category.
• Settings now include moderation toggles for new polls and new votes, with a custom recipient list for admin notifications.
• The poll editor remembers your scroll position and unsaved changes within a session.

Upgrading From Version 6

The 7.0 update can be installed over a 6.x install through the standard Joomla update process. The installer takes care of the schema changes:

• The legacy #__communitypolls_email_templates table is dropped. Email templates now live as files. If you had customised any templates in version 6, contact support before upgrading and we will help you carry the changes forward into the new file-based format.
• Your existing polls, votes, options, categories, and settings are preserved.
• The new email-branding settings start with safe defaults — your site name in the header and a clean subtitle — so the notifications keep working immediately after the upgrade.
• If you have built custom plugins against the v6 events, they continue to work. The v7 events are additive, not replacements.

We recommend testing the upgrade on a staging copy first, especially if you have heavily customised email templates.

Where to Get It

Community Polls 7 is available now to active subscribers. If your subscription is current, sign in to your account at shondalai.com and download the latest package from the My Downloads area, or update directly through the Joomla update system using the existing update site.

If your subscription has lapsed, you can renew it from the same downloads area to get access to version 7 and future updates.

Documentation and Support

• Documentation: docs.shondalai.com/community-polls
• Changelog: community-polls-changelog
• Support: shondalai.com/contact-us

Thank you to every customer who reported a bug, opened a feature request, or replied to one of our beta-testing emails over the past months. Version 7 is the result of that feedback, and we look forward to hearing what you build with it.

We are pleased to announce that our new website is now live on Joomla 6.

This migration gives us a stronger foundation for performance, security, maintainability, and future improvements. It also helps us deliver a cleaner and more consistent experience across product pages, blog content, documentation, and customer account workflows.

This is not just a visual refresh. It is an important platform upgrade that will make it easier for us to keep improving the site over time.

Important Update for Existing Users

If you already had an account on our previous website, your account has been migrated to the new site.

However, because the new website now runs on a different CMS, you will need to reset your password before you can sign in for the first time.

Please do not create a new account if you already had one. Instead, use the same email address from your previous account and complete the password reset process.

Subscription Plan Update

We also want to clarify an important change to our subscription plans.

Our previous all-in-one subscriptions, which included access to all extensions with 1-site and 3-site options, are no longer available for purchase to new customers.

Going forward, new customers can purchase individual subscriptions for each product, with 1-site and 5-site options available for each product.

If you are an existing customer on one of the older all-in-one plans, you can continue on that plan as long as you keep renewing it. If your needs change, you can also choose one of the new individual product subscriptions instead.

What You Need to Do

1. Go to the login page: https://shondalai.com/login
2. Click the password reset link
3. Enter the email address associated with your previous account
4. Open the reset email and follow the instructions
5. Set a new password and sign in

If the reset email does not appear right away, please check your spam or promotions folder. If you no longer have access to your old email address, contact us and we will help you recover access to your account.

If You See an Empty Screen or a Broken Page

After a major site migration, your browser may still hold older cached files. If you see an empty screen on My Account or anywhere else on the site, please clear your browser cache and reload the page.

1. Try a hard refresh of the page first
2. If the issue remains, clear your browser cache for this site
3. Close the browser tab and open the page again
4. Sign in again if needed

If the page is still blank after clearing cache, please contact us here: https://shondalai.com/contact-us.

What Is New on the New Site

The move to Joomla 6 gives us a better long-term platform to build on. Some of the immediate benefits include:

• A cleaner technical foundation for future updates
• Improved performance and a more structured site architecture
• A more consistent experience across desktop and mobile devices
• Better support for ongoing content, product, and account improvements
• A stronger base for future enhancements to customer workflows and site features

We will continue refining the experience in the coming weeks as we settle into the new platform and roll out additional improvements.

Why We Made the Move

As our site and product ecosystem continue to grow, we wanted a platform that fits our long-term direction more closely. Joomla 6 gives us a modern, structured, and maintainable base that aligns better with how we build, support, and evolve our products.

This change also puts us in a better position to improve navigation, publish updates more effectively, streamline account-related flows, and deliver a more stable experience for customers and readers.

What to Expect Next

The new site is live, but this is only the beginning of the next phase. We will continue improving:

• Site performance and responsiveness
• Product and documentation organization
• Customer account and login workflows
• Content structure and publishing experience

If you notice anything that does not look right after the migration, such as broken links, missing information, or account-access issues, please let us know. Migration work always comes with a few edge cases, and your feedback helps us resolve them quickly.

Need Help Accessing Your Account?

If you run into any issue while resetting your password or signing in, please contact us here: https://shondalai.com/contact-us.

We recommend including your account email address when you contact us so we can help you faster.

Thank You

Thank you for your patience and continued support during this migration. We are excited about what this move enables, and we look forward to sharing more improvements soon.

Welcome to the new site.

Today, we are releasing Sociable v3.0.0. This is a major update for Joomla communities. It helps you onboard users faster with invitations and automatic profile assignment. You can manage activity and reports more easily. It also increases engagement with badges, points, gamification, and referrals.

If you already use Sociable, this update helps you launch faster. It enables you to manage with more confidence. You can convert activity into long-term retention.

What’s New in This Release

1) Smarter Onboarding with Invitations + Profile Assignment

Onboarding is now much more flexible and role-aware.

• Invitations: Invite users directly from the admin and track the invitation lifecycle.
• Profile Assignment Rules: Automatically assign profile types during registration based on your rules.
• Registration-aware behavior: Invitations are available only when Joomla user registration is enabled, with clear in-app messaging when disabled.
• Invitation email templates: Invitation emails now use the same template mechanism as the rest of Sociable email delivery.

This means you can onboard teachers, students, and staff from day one. Partners or members can also be placed into the right profile path with less manual cleanup after signup.

2) Stronger Community Operations

This release improves day-to-day moderation and review workflows.

• Activities moderation reliability: Approval flows are more consistent and aligned with moderation status updates.
• Reports and moderation visibility: Better clarity for admin teams handling user-generated content.
• Avatar URL consistency in admin: Activities, gamification, and related admin views now resolve avatar URLs consistently for reliable display.

For teams moderating active communities, these changes reduce friction and improve confidence in admin actions.

3) Expanded Engagement Engine

Sociable now provides a tighter loop between participation and recognition.

• Badges & Points: Reward contribution with visible progress.
• Gamification: Encourage repeat engagement through rankings and incentives.
• Referrals: Turn existing members into growth channels.

Together, these features help convert passive audiences into active, returning participants.

4) Better Admin Control Surface

The admin panel now reflects a broader and more complete product surface, including:

• Dashboard
• Users
• Profile Types
• Profile Fields
• Groups
• Activities
• Reports
• Badges & Points
• Gamification
• Referrals
• Invitations
• Themes
• Email Templates
• Settings

This structure gives community managers one organized place to configure identity, engagement, growth, communication, and moderation.

Why This Release Matters

Most social platforms struggle not because they lack features, but because workflows are disconnected. This release closes several of those gaps:

• from invite to registration to correct profile assignment,
• from activity approval to accurate moderation state,
• from participation to recognition and retention.

For Joomla site owners, this translates into faster launches, lower admin overhead, and stronger long-term community health.

Technical Foundation (Still Joomla-First)

Sociable continues to build on a modern, maintainable stack:

• Joomla 5/6 compatibility
• PHP 8.2+
• React 19 + TypeScript admin/site app architecture
• API-first service model
• ACL-aware integration with Joomla conventions

The result is a platform that can scale with your product roadmap without forcing a rewrite later.

Recommended Upgrade Checklist

After upgrading, we recommend this quick pass in admin:

1. Verify Joomla user registration setting (required for Invitations).
2. Configure Profile Types and Profile Assignment Rules.
3. Review Invitation email templates and branding tokens.
4. Validate Activities moderation workflow with a test approval.
5. Enable/adjust Badges, Points, and Gamification values.
6. Check Referrals and reporting dashboards.

Final Thoughts

This release makes Sociable feel less like a feature bundle and more like a complete community operations platform for Joomla. If you are focused on onboarding quality, pay attention. Moderation clarity is also important. This update is the most significant for sustained engagement.