It gives us great pleasure to announce that release 5.1 is now live! For those of you who are dedicated community leaders this update has been a long time coming and is just one of the many releases planned for this year! In this release we introduce an exciting new referral program for tribes as well as additional tribe related updates and general usability improvements.

Your tribe's invite link (referral URL) is the only direct link that allows new members to join your community in a manner that is as friction-less as possible and without a required invite. Utilize it on your blog, your social channels, and any other places to efficiently grow your mailing list, and earn referrals that will earn you a 55% split on all revenues.This guide outlines important information on how to use your invite link to effectively and responsibly promote your tribe and grow a bustling community that will soon be the heart of your blog.

Your arsenal of invite codes can play a key role in the early promotion of your tribe. As a tribe leader you have access to an endless supply of them, 20 active codes (per tribe), at any given time. Each invite code is unique and can create one account. This guide goes into invite codes, their advantages, and how you can use them to effectively promote and grow your community.

One of the most exciting and challenging things one can do on Snapzu is to start their own tribe and grow it into a flourishing community. This is not, by all means, an easy task and requires a lot of effort and dedication. Knowing the challenges is important, so we took it upon ourselves to put together a short 5 step guide on what you will need to know in order to make your tribe a success!

The Blog Enhancement Suite is a complete suite of social blog tools hosted on the Snapzu community platform. This lengthy and in-depth FAQ is divided into eight (8) main sections about the Blog Enhancement Suite and is intended to be read in full and in order for a complete understanding of how it all works together. If you are genuinely interested in our platform and how it can help your blog, we highly recommended you dedicate the 20(ish) minutes to read through it. Enjoy!

By validating your tribe(s) into the Snapzu referral program (“Program”) you are choosing to be an Affiliate and you are agreeing to be bound by the following terms and conditions ("Terms of Service")

In preparation for the first major release update of 2015 we have made some minor but important visual updates across the Snapzu platform. If you're interested in finding out a little more about the things we have changed, be sure to click in and read the rest of this blog post.

It is with great pleasure to announce drunkenninja as our very first super-moderator. A loyal and dedicated member, drunkenninja has made a consistent effort to be helpful to, and share fantastic content with the rest of the Snapzu community.

In 2014, our first entire year of operations, we welcomed over 5,000 new members and countless more casual readers and lurkers. Our members published over 80,000 snaps, posted 30,000 comments and placed well over 3 million votes. We realize this may seem like peanuts when compared to other established services, but after all, every community has to start somewhere. Our team is dedicated, hungry, and always looking to improve as we ever so diligently aim to raise the bar.

This guide outlines the necessity of our reputation-based leveling system, how it calculates and credits XP, and the best ways users can increase their experience levels.

A great deal of activity on Snapzu consists of sharing links, images, videos and other unique content for the rest of the community to discover. It is a great way to get noticed within the community and a fantastic way to earn XP towards your next level! In this guide we will outline the rules, etiquette, and functionality of creating link and media snaps.

We have added an ability to post feed based status updates to quickly share what's on your mind. A number of usability issues and visual glitches were also corrected.

We are excited to finally launch version 5.0! This update focuses on improved and simplified design, streamlined content creation and link sharing, as well as general visual updates.

Read about all the changes here.

This blog post contains information on the status of the heartbleed bug on the Snapzu service.

Over the last month or so we have been applying bug fixes, visual updates and some new functionality. To learn more about the changes, be sure to not miss this post.

We have a released a series of updates and new functionality at the end of this month that we would like to introduce in our 4.4 release. Apparently a little bit more than can fit in the title, so please check out our blog post to see whats new!