We're building a fun,
friendly and privacy first community!

Hmmm, how do I start this? Maybe, “To whom it may concern” no no that’s too formal, “Hello!” Does that work? No, you’re right it feels a bit excitable. “Hi” Yes, Hi! I like that. Now we’ve got the formalities out of the way, how are you? have...

Read more

Hello! I wanted to give some sort of update because life and depression mostly took over towards the end of last year and I’ve not made SoSa a priority. A bunch of stuff has still happened on SoSa, new designs, been working on architecture and code but because I’m still in a weird...

Read more

Hi, it’s me James again 🙂 A lot has happened since the last blog update so this is a bit of a long one, buckle up, grab you popcorn and I hope you enjoy the read James x Privacy The main focus at the moment for SoSa is getting the Privacy setting’s in place. I ...

Read more

Hi hi! I thought you’d all like an update!  Before we get started I just wanted to say a little thank you to everyone who sends me lovely messages and engages with these posts, i’m mostly doing them to keep myself accountable but it’s nice knowing i’m not just talking into the void and...

Read more

Hi. Have you missed me? The last update, I was exhausted, stressed and trying to buy my first home. So of course it was the perfect time to start doing 70 hour weeks for work! Well, that’s all over now. No more overtime, I had a week off to get my head straight and I ...

Read more

Hello everyone, it’s been a while since i’ve given you an update so I wanted to give you one 🙂 At the moment I can’t seem to catch my breath with my free time and the last month has been as manic as always.  If it weren’t for a lack of motivation, my Grandad passed ...

Read more

Boy, do I have a story to tell. I started this sprint with best intentions, i thought “Hey James, why don’t we get a release out and build it using App Center” boy… was that a mistake! For those not in the know, app center is a platform run by Microsoft and it allows you ...

Read more

Hello girls, boys and cabbages!  How are you?  I’ve had a great two weeks working on SoSa, it’s been very productive! and not only have I finally finished the refactor Saga i’ve actually managed to build some features! Happy 7th Birthday!

Read more

Hello everyone!  This update is going to be more technical than usual, I set out with the plan to finish last weeks clean up, then start working on profiles but ended up going down a buggy rabbit hole.

Read more

Oh hai! wow it’s been forever hasn’t it? But guess what! it’s update time again so i hope you’re ready to read me talk utter nonsense for 5 minutes. Firstly, thank you for IamSprots for becoming our latest Patreon! If you would like to support what I’m building and get some an inside look...

Read more

Hello, is it me you’re looking for? I thought it’d be nice to take a step back this sprint and do a bit of a retrospective of the last year, see how far we’ve come help give me perspective for the new year! Before we start looking into how far SoSa has come this ...

Read more

Hello hello!  I’ve been thinking about you, I hope you’ve been thinking about me too! You can ignore the title, I couldn’t actually think of one and this jumped out at me as being the most appropriate. It’s been another great sprint with lots of changes and great progress! Because...

Read more

I’d like to welcome Kira to the Alpha team!, I’m starting to add more people to Alpha to help smash out those bugs! If you’d like to get involved just let me know 🙂 As before, a lot of work has been done for this release during this sprint so i’ll share what the Alpha ...

Read more

Good morning boys, girls and amorphous blobs.  How are you? You look cute today. I’m writing this at 4am, because apparently I can’t sleep, so bear with me. I think i’m considerably funnier than I am at the best of times – much less at 4am. This sprint has gone really well, I’m...

Read more

Here’s a video to check out the app and all these changes in real time 🙂 Firstly! Welcome Jelle and Peter to the Alpha team! That’s right ladies and gentlefolk! we’ve moved up a whole minor version! Only 9 more to go… Meetups In the last few updates we saw the meetups interface in...

Read more

Hey! you probably didn’t think it’d been a month since I last updated did you? It’s been a month since my last update and 6 weeks since my last Alpha release! Before I share what happened, I want to say thank you to everyone for their kind messages of support over the last month, as ...

Read more

Here’s a video to check out the app and all these changes in real time 🙂 Uploads / Embeds – First version In chat, you can now upload an image and share it with chat, this works using amazon S3 and chat will now embed the image as well. The interface is a little ...

Read more

Hello fellow person or person/s Another two weeks have passed and work has still been kicking my ass, the good news is that we’ve managed to move our deadlines to something more manageable and get more resources in at short notice so now I get to work on SoSa in my free time again! I ...

Read more

Sunday 1st November 1900-2100 GMT / 1200-1400 PT / 1500-1700 ET Last one was so much fun and you built some incredible builds so we thought we’d do another one, but this time for Halloween! Alright, it’ll be a day late – but fuck it! it’ll...

Grab a ticket

Hey! how’re you? My full time job is chaotic at the moment, so whilst I have worked on SoSa this sprint, i’ve not had nearly as much time as I would have liked and decided against doing a release this sprint just to make sure i’m delivering something of value! I’ve still make great progress...

Read more

Sunday 18th October 1900-2100 GMT / 1200-1400 PT / 1500-1700 ET It’s been months since we played golf with friends so I thought it would be a nice change! Don’t have it? Don’t worry! ...

Grab a ticket

It’s been another two weeks since your last update and aside from being crashed into at the start of the sprint it’s been a great two weeks! Lot’s done! another release out in the wild and ready to start a new sprint! This happened So this person responded to two emails, one from 2015 and ...

Read more

I’ve started making videos each release, I might get fancier with them next update but for now I thought I’d keep it simple – the write up below gives much more information! Welcome Screen This one’s been a long time coming, when you sign up to SoSa, it’s important you get a...

Read more

Sunday 4th October 1900-2100 GMT / 1200-1400 PT / 1500-1700 ET It’s time once again for Boob and belly physics and we delve into the world of WitchIt! The game recently had an update and we had so much fun...

Grab a ticket

Gather round! gather round! Girls! Boys! Troglodytes! Every one lean in close, we have another important set of updates for you. This one is a bit later than usually because in the UK we had what we call a “Bank Holiday” and what this basically means is everyone who works for the bank goes on...

Read more

Here’s the line up for Alpha Release 1.0.7! We’re picking up a bit more speed again now and I hope each release will show case more and more features 🙂 Google Login! Last of the logins, this one was a bit more complicated because we don’t get a username from Google! For now,...

Read more

Sunday 20th September 1900-2100 GMT / 1200-1400 PT / 1500-1700 ET Thought we’d go for a bit of a classic this time with Worms W.M.D, it’s also free at the moment if you have Xbox game pass! ...

Grab a ticket

Well well well, look who it is! That’s right… it’s you! You beautiful bastard! How are you? Oh! you want me to tell you about SoSa? Well why didn’t you say so! You may remember my last update was a little melodramatic, well don’t worry I feel much better this sprint, I have managed to...

Read more

After a short break, i’m back to creating releases every sprint, this first one is a little small but we’ll pick up momentum with each sprint again 🙂 New Stuff Facebook Login Alpha team should now be able to login to the app with Facebook, to avoid privacy issues we’re not...

Read more

Sunday 6th September 1900-2100 GMT / 1200-1400 PT / 1500-1700 ET Work together as you attempt to prepare your spaceship for departure, but beware as one or more random players among the Crew are Impostors bent on killing everyone! ...

Grab a ticket

The funny thing about the startup world is that we only ever see the success stories, the plucky entrepreneurs that save the day by creating some world changing software, or that appear one day with an amazing, addictive game that everyone wants to play. It’s rare people talk about the failures,...

Read more

Sunday 23rd August 1900-2100 GMT / 1200-1400 PT / 1500-1700 ET Play together with your friends and have a fun time! In Teeworlds you can play in three gamemodes (Deathmatch, Team-Deathmatch and Capture The Flag) and tons more of...

Grab a ticket

So today is the last day of my fortnight off and It’s been an interesting two weeks. I’ve played a lot of games, saw some friends, did my full time job and started to exercise again. I figured i’d do a mix of an update and how i’ve spent my 2 weeks this update. Let’s ...

Read more

This is a smaller release, I spent a lot of time refactoring and cleaning up the code to support some new features so not a huge amount of changes but still some!  A lot of this was done during the previous sprint to make sure i had something to release this sprint. Character Restrictions Ok...

Read more

It’s not me, it’s you… just joking! OR AM I? At the start of the last sprint, I was starting to feel burnout on the horizon, so to keep momentum I did one big push the last two weeks and got two lots of “releases” ready, one for this update and one for the next. ...

Read more

New Features Tagging Have you ever been in a chat room full of bots all creatively named and thought to yourself “How do I tag Bot10”? Well, if you’ve followed previous releases, you would know you could press their face. Or, even press them in the user list but sometimes – that’s a...

Read more

Another awesome sprint! so much has changed, it’s hard to keep up! Before we get started, a reminder that this Sunday (28th June) we’re playing Among Us for game night You can get a ticket here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sosa-plays-among-us-tickets-108609297332?ref=estw Game Night Video A...

Read more

Because releases are now getting bigger and more frequent, it’s getting a bit confusing having a single article that contains everything so it’s time to separate out the posts. This one will be for release changes and there will be a normal one for the other work i’ve done during...

Read more

Wow! What a sprint! Genuinely one of my most productive in the last few months, I’ve gotten so much done that I’m not at the point I feel I can start blogging a mix between what’s been released and what i’m working on. Before I get started with this week’s update, I wanted to do...

Read more

I have literally no idea where the last two weeks have gone. If it weren’t for Jira, I honestly wouldn’t know I’d achieved so much this sprint!  Everything is blending into a single, really long, coffee fueled day and it’s weird. Stop it.

Read more

Hello girls and boys! It’s me! yo friendly neighbourhood James! We’re going to do things a little differently this update. It felt a bit weird that everyone on the BETA were getting the updates a week after I share it everywhere else on Social media. So starting this week, beta’s come...

Read more

Hello, it’s me again! James!  You’re probably wondering what i’ve been working on the last two weeks. Well take my hand and we will delve into a world of imagination! But just before we dive in – here are the articles covering the journey so far! Right! up to date? let’s go!...

Read more

Thank you to everyone who sent me well wishes after my last update. Thankfully I feel much better now, I’m sleeping and the headaches have gone 🙂 which means I managed to get a fair amount done this sprint! 🥳 If you’re reading this, I’d love to hear from you! Let me know how...

Read more

Ok… so I should preface this with a few caveats… I wasn’t expecting a global pandemic to completely change the way we have to work overnightI haven’t slept very well at all for the last 2 weeks leaving me only just enough brain power to do my day job properlyI definitely underestimated how...

Read more

This sprint hasn’t really been a sprint, more of a really long refinement and retrospective. When I  came back from Prague, Corona was starting to get more media attention with speculation of a recession so I decided it was time to start looking for work.  I spent some time getting my...

Read more

First things first! We’re in the Alpha stores! 🥳🥳 Exciting right? But what does that actually mean? So right now, the original Council team can install the app on their phones and break it to their heart’s content.

Read more

Well well well, look who we have here! I’ve been thinking about you… yes you… don’t be coy!I want to tell you about my last two weeks, would that be ok? Great! Previously on my descent into madness: Last sprint I spoke to a bunch of members, got auto deployment working and got very ...

Read more

This sprint has been a little… fucky.  The winter has hit my mood hard and I struggled for the first week to focus. Stepping away, sleeping, working out – none of it worked. So it’s been a bit of a struggle. I almost booked a trip to the canaries just to get some of that ...

Read more

This is a technical post going into depth about the work i’ve done in the last sprint, if you’re looking for my general update you can check it out: here  If you’re not up to date and you’ve stumbled on this post through my shit posting everywhere You can see the previous posts: Tech...

Read more

Oh hey! Quick recap Hi I’m James! I’m a 34, slightly belligerent and from the UK.  Between January 2020 – April 2020, I’m building a social network!  Why? Because it’s fucking hard to make new friends and socialise as you get older and I think the world needs a platform that...

Read more

Sprint 1 If you’re an entrepreneur you’ll probably be in a similar boat to me. Trying to do a million jobs on a tiny budget.  Great for your startup, not so much for fortnightly updates! So I’ll try to keep these posts structured and a little ridiculous. There will be a combination...

Read more

Hi! If you’re reading this, you probably already know – I’m James AKA TheBritishAreComing. There’s a few things you need to know about me: I’m a tech agnostic developer, with about 15 years commercially.Although British, I’m awful at English! (poor grammar get out of free...

Read more

Ever since I began SoSa back in 2014, I wanted to find a way to make it open source! Lack of time, resources and a bunch of clone sites popping up meant I didn’t ever get around to making the source code available on Github. Well, that’s about to change! With the relaunch of ...

Read more

Hi, I know this would have come to you as a shock, i’m sorry for that this isn’t how I wanted SoSa to end. Let me explain When I started SoSa, I wanted to help the imgur community connect, it was a bit of fun and I thought after it launched it would only last ...

Read more

Hey guys, After a pretty wild and hilarious Easter prank, we have decided to release another long play video from our Golf With Your Friends meetup. I repeat this is not a prank. Yet another Golf With Your Friends post you say? Well yes, after all we are all friends here are we not? Click ...

Read more

You read the title correctly. After 4 long years of you begging and tormenting me, I have finally caved and made SoSa a dating site. But this of course isn’t any normal dating site. OH NO! this is a dating site made for a community that hasn’t dated for 4 years, a community that is ...

Read more

Hi friends and welcome to another SoSa gaming blog post. This week we are gracing you with the second long play part from our OpenRA Red Alert meetup. Over two hours of barely edited footage for you to enjoy. Click here to watch the video. The group seems to have really improved their building ...

Read more

Hi guys, and welcome to another week and another gaming blog. This week we are gracing you with the long play video of our Teeworlds meetup. Click here to watch the video. What is Teeworlds you ask? Teeworlds is an adorable little fast paced shooter arcade game where tee balls try to murder each...

Read more

Ohh yeah, you have been waiting for this video. That is right, just before Christmas we played Murder, and it was one of our most fun meetups. Murder is one of the many mods that Garry’s Mod has to offer, and one of our favourites to play together. (Trouble in Terrorist Town being a very ...

Read more

Hey SoSarians, welcome to yet another Golf With Your Friends meetup video. There can never be enough golf videos. Just putting it out there. Click here to watch the video. As a community, everyone always asks us about the next time we will be playing Golf with your Friends and the videos are always...

Read more

Wow. Just wow, we’ve made it another year, and what a year that was!  As a business we’ve seen a lot of changes over the last year, we started the with a small army of developers and mods but ended the year with just Umbrena and I, No more Tinychat and all but 3 chat ...

Read more

Hi SoSa friends and welcome to another gaming video! This week we are showing you the footage of our OpenRA video and specifically we are playing Red Alert.  This is the first part of the video, stay tuned for the second part coming in the following weeks. Click here to watch the video. OpenRA ...

Read more

Hi SoSa members and welcome to our Jackbox Party Pack meetup blog/video, Check out the video on YouTube by clicking here. This was the first time we played Jackbox Party Pack and it was actually a really cool, engaging and fun game. Jackbox Party Packs have multiple games that our whole site can...

Read more

Hi guys and welcome back to the second part of our “Golf With Your Friends” meetup. Click here to check out the video. You know you want to. Ohhh, yeah. And if you have not already, please subscribe to our YouTube channel as we post weekly game meetup videos now. So to begin the ...

Read more

Hello SoSa friends and welcome to another gaming meetup video! Today we will be showing you the long play video of our Tabletop Simulator meetup. We played Tabletop Simulator as well last Sunday, so it would only be fitting to show you the video you have been waiting for (only since this summer!...

Read more

Welcome SoSa members to another week of gaming and a brand-new gaming blog! This time we are featuring the second part of our Rocket League meetup. You can click here to view the video. If you have never played Rocket League before and you are curious about reading a little bit about it first, ...

Read more