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Recently we released version 2.6 of our platform. Not only were there a few improvements and fixes that were included, but also a cool little feature we call Category Following, of which I shall go in more detail in this blog post.

What is Category Following?

When online communities grow, you begin to have numerous categories or a category can become so distinct, it becomes a community of its own. How can we solve this? This is where Category Following can become helpful.  Here are just some of the benefits:

Internet security is like digging a ditch. One shovel full of dirt at a time. If it feels easy, you’re just getting started and goes far deeper than you expect. You’ll unearth things you never imagined and the longer you work at it, the darker, danker, and dirtier it gets.

Back in May 2017, we let you know about our new API. Last week we released a preview our new API to all customers.

Create streams in Hootsuite to monitor activity in your Vanilla community.

Monitoring your customer interactions gets more difficult as more social channels pop up and gain popularity. Hootsuite makes managing social easier by bringing all your social feeds into one place.

One of the major Vanilla R&D initiatives of 2017 is a brand new version version of our API. Building a new API is a priority for 2 reasons:

1. Allowing our customers to better integrate with us and leverage their data, and;
2. Allowing our own R&D team to be more productive.