Announcements from Ning

Free Groups and Events Features for Ning 2.0 Mini plan!

Great News - since Groups and Events features are free on 3.0 platform, we also decided to make them available to 2.0 users!

You have remained loyal to the platform for many years, inspiring our development - and we appreciate it deeply. Thus, meetin

A Follow-Up Message from our CEO

I just wanted to take a moment and provide you with an update and thank you for the positive feedback.  It's important to hear we are moving in the right direct.  Several great suggestions regarding new features and functionality have been received a

Read a new article in the NING blog: make money blogging, with step-by-step guides!

Blogging is an extremely inspiring activity, especially when you can make a buck with it! Are you a budding blogger? Do not miss our new post: successful blog monetization is easier than it seems!

Eager to know how to monetize your blog to become a

CAPTCHA - NO BOTS AND SPAMMY CONTENT

As of now you can easily prevent spammy and bots’ massages on your networks using CAPTCHA option. 

500 error on some Ning Networks

Hello!

Due to the maintenance in the Ning systems, 500 errors might appear on some Ning Networks.
It usually takes up to 20 minutes for our technical team to solve such issues.
We do apologize for the inconveniences, but the maintenance works are nec

Announcing Events for Ning 3.0

We’ve heard your feedback over the years, and Events has consistently been one of, if not the, most-requested feature for 3.0. So today, we’re pleased to announce the long-awaited release of Events for Ning 3.0.

Events are an important component of

End of Year Progress Report

As 2016 comes to a close, we wanted to take a moment to share some of our progress over the last few months.  

Stability
Our Engineering and Operations teams have had their heads down working to resolve the underlying causes of recent platform insta

Price Increase Rollback

Since coming under new management, we’ve spent time reviewing all the feedback you’ve given us about the price increase here on Creators, in tickets, and in call notes.  We’ve heard you loud and clear!  So we’re pleased to announce that we are not pr

Network Accessibility Update II

It appears Tuesday’s changes had a positive impact on system availability and a significant reduction in 500 error’s.  From here on out, we'll be cleaning out the backlog of reported bugs.  Once caught up, we will address missing functionality in Nin

Acquisition Update

We’re happy to report that we have a bit more information we can now share publicly with you.  While Cyndx LLC took over Ning operations last week, they were ultimately outbid by another company, which has entered into an agreement with Mode Media to

Exciting News About Ning + Cyndx LLC

We are pleased to announce that Cyndx LLC entered into an agreement with Mode Media to take over the operations of Ning Inc from Mode Media effective immediately.  The Ning and Cyndx teams together are bigger, stronger, and better positioned to provi

Notice of Upcoming Price Changes to Ning 2.0 Networks

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Announcement Regarding Today's Outage

As some of you may be aware, we experienced a system outage earlier this morning. The cause was due to a specific network configuration change that was made during our network maintenance window.  Once we identified the issue, we quickly took correct

Network Accessibility Update

Today we implemented much-needed architecture changes that will improve system availability, eliminate blocked access that affected certain areas, and reduce 500 errors.
 
We will continue to monitor these changes and keep you posted as to our progre

Introducing Multiple Page Contributors

Since we we added member categories to page permissions, we’ve gotten requests to add the ability to set more than one member category as a page contributor.  Now, by popular demand, you can set up multiple page contributors!

You can set this up in

Ning Partners with Noosphere

Noosphere is happy to announce that it recently coordinated the successful acquisition of Ning Inc assets.  Under the terms of the acquisition PSCP Holdings Limited acquired the business and will operate it under the newly formed entity Ning Interact

Introducing Member Customizable HTML Boxes for Profile Pages

Since Ning 3.0 was launched, we’ve received a number of requests for a member customizable area on My Pages (similar to the member customizable text box on 2.0 profile pages).  We’ve now added a Member Customizable HTML box that can be added to My Pa

Notice of 2016 Storage Limit and Pricing Plan Changes

We appreciate your business and the opportunity to bring social media services at competitive rates.  However, like all companies, we face increases in costs each year.  We have a percentage of uniquely successful customers with large numbers of memb

Update on May Service Disruptions

Spanning the last few weeks, Ning Networks across both our 2.0 and 3.0 platforms have experienced sporadic access and connectivity issues.  These issues have had two causes:
 
1.  High Loads on Specific Server Clusters:  During specific networks’ pea

Update to Product Roadmap and Communication Changes

Thank you for your patience over the past several weeks. As you know, we closely follow and appreciate the feedback you share on Creators, and we’d like to make a couple of important announcements related to your posts. 

First, regarding the product,