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  Community Builder is a web based platform that lets anyone run their own web site where they can post information and links they find relevant to the public or exclusively to Community members (or both). It provides an alternative for people who have been censored or even banned from the big tech platforms. Community Builder has features you won't find on any commercial web site and would take years to develop on your own. It is a project that is more than 5 years in the making and was written expressly with streamlining communications in mind. Community Builder let's you build a Community of people with similar interests. It's designed so members can find the people they have common interests with and facilitates easy communication among them.

 
  The great thing is that we can set up a new community in under 15 minutes and then you can begin the process of customizing your site. The Customization your community usually takes a few hours of work but depends on how many features of the platform you want to take advantage of. The features of the platform are almost too many to list but here are just a few!  
 
 
  Community Builder features!  
  Click here for an in depth features list:  
 
  1. Your community can provide free information to all visitors on public facing pages but it can also have a paid membership where only members of the community have access to clubs, articles, videos, rewards, member projects, blogs, and gallerys, and a bulletin board of activities and items for sale, and many other facilities that non members don't have access to.
 
  2. Community Builder has a built in company website where you can display your company's information. This lets vistors and communtiy members know how they may contact you regarding your services. For Companys that serve food there is a built in page where you can post your menu items. There is also a kiosk option that you can deploy at your brick and mortar sites where members can claim rewards they have earned as part of a patron loyalty system.
 
  3. Community Builder has a built-in survey system that allows you to create custom surveys to get feedback from community members. You can even tie the survey system into the patron loyalty program and let members earn points for answering survey questions.
 
  4. Members can create a profile where they can post information about themselves and list skills they may have that others are in need of. These skills are searchable once they enter them so people can find each other based on their skills.
 
  5. Members can communicate with each other through PMs (Personal Messages). PM's can be encrypted with military grade RSA and AES encryption algrythms with the click of a button by generating a public-private key pair.
 
  6. Members can create blogs of the projects they are working and want to share with the community.
 
  7. Members can create gallerys of photos and link those gallerys to their project blogs.
 
  8. Members upload videos that they can share with specific members of the community or the whole community.
 
  9. Members can upload video vignettes they wish to share with the community.
 
  10. There is a bulletin board where members can post information to the entire community and can also post an alternate email address if they would like to get feedback. The administrator can create the types of postings the members can choose when using the bulletin board feature.
 
  11. Community Builder supports member clubs. The community administrator can create clubs that members can join. As a member of the club you will receive special club announcements related to the club's activities. Also as a member of the club you can view other club members so that you can find people with the same interests as you and those that are interested in attending the same types of club events.
 
  12. Community Builder supports member interests. The administrator of the community can now create interest topics such as Sports, Outdoor activities, etc and then add interests within those topics. For examples Sports may contain football, baseball, hockey, etc. and outdoor activities may contain fishing, hiking, camping etc. Once a member selects a topic/interest they may set the value (1-10) that matches their level of interest. Then other members can search for people with interests that match their own.
 
  13. Community Builder supports Community Event Registration. The administrator of the community can now create community events to which members of the community can register for and receive registration details in their inbox. There are many variations of events that may be setup by the administrator:
1) The community administration can setup any number of events that have a wide range of properties such as Title, Event Date, Start time, End time, Location, Address, Directions, Map Link, Virtual Event Link, Sponsor Name, Sponsor Link, Event Dress Code, Contact Phone, Contact Email, Max Attendees, Pre-Pay Charge, At the Door Charge, Allow Refunds, Event Image, and more.
2) Events can be a free or paid events.
3) For paid events the admin can set up a pre-pay online with a discount.
4) For paid events members can request a refund should the event be cancelled.
5) For paid events the administration can easily set up a variety of payment options and charges.
6) The administrator can set up events specifically for members of clubs.
7) The administrator can set up events that are by invitation only.
8) Event can have speakers with bios and pictures displayed.
9) The administration can run a report to view the members that have registered for each event.
  11. Community Builder supports member clubs. The community administrator can create clubs that members can join. As a member of the club you will receive special club announcements related to the club's activities. Also as a member of the club you can view other club members so that you can find people with the same interests as you and those that are interested in attending the same types of club events.
 
  12. Community Builder supports member interests. The administrator of the community can now create interest topics such as Sports, Outdoor activities, etc and then add interests within those topics. For examples Sports may contain football, baseball, hockey, etc. and outdoor activities may contain fishing, hiking, camping etc. Once a member selects a topic/interest they may set the value (1-10) that matches their level of interest. Then other members can search for people with interests that match their own.
 
  13. Community Builder supports Community Event Registration. The administrator of the community can now create community events to which members of the community can register for and receive registration details in their inbox. There are many variations of events that may be setup by the administrator:
1) The community administration can setup any number of events that have a wide range of properties such as Title, Event Date, Start time, End time, Location, Address, Directions, Map Link, Virtual Event Link, Sponsor Name, Sponsor Link, Event Dress Code, Contact Phone, Contact Email, Max Attendees, Pre-Pay Charge, At the Door Charge, Allow Refunds, Event Image, and more.
2) Events can be a free or paid events.
3) For paid events the admin can set up a pre-pay online with a discount.
4) For paid events members can request a refund should the event be cancelled.
5) For paid events the administration can easily set up a variety of payment options and charges.
6) The administrator can set up events specifically for members of clubs.
7) The administrator can set up events that are by invitation only.
8) Event can have speakers with bios and pictures displayed.
9) The administration can run a report to view the members that have registered for each event.
 
  14. For administrators of the site there is a custom email system to that allows you to communicate with your members based on many different membership parameters while respecting their e-mail preferences.
 
  15. There is a full featured built in E-commerce module that lets you sell products or electronic files to members of the community or even public viewers of the site. You can even accept the crypto currencies of your choice as payment.
 
  16. There is a built in patron loyalty system where members can earn rewards (in points or in crypto currency) for things like attending events or purchasing swag.
 
  17. There is a full chat system that can be implemented by the administrator of the community. The chat feature can be made available to the public or only for the members of the community.
 
  18. The administrator of the community can integrate a Twitter timeline so that members of the community can follow the specified members on Twitter right from community builder.
 
  19. The administrator of the community can integrate radio stations from all over the country directly from the community allowing people to listen to theor favorite radio stations directly from a community page.
 
  20. The administrator of the community can integrate weather reports from all over the globe allowing people to get weather information from nearly anywhere directly from a community page.
 
  21. The administrator of the community can integrate Instagram photos and stories directly into their communities allowing members to see the Instagram feeds from their favorite Instagramers.
 
  22. The administrator of the community can integrate Google maps directly into a Community Builder page giving the members easy to follow maps to the location of events or points of interest.
 
  23. The administrator of the community can integrate fun games like chess, checkers and reversi which gives members a fun diversion and keeps them coming back to the community.
  24. The administrator of the community can integrate alerts for the community members that also include maps. This can be useful for letting community members know about things like road detours, lane closures, bridge closures, or just to keep their eyes open for a run away dog and a map of where it was lost or seen last.
 
  25. For the crypto currency traders out there Community Builder has a unique module that tracks the price movements of up to 6 pairs of tokens and alerts you when there is an excellent swapping opportunity.
 
  26. The site can be highly customized with the look and feel of your own site to fit your current web presence style.
 
  27. Community Builder is HIGHLY configurable. It is has many different modules that can be turned on or off with the click of a mouse so you can utilize the modules that you find useful and turn the rest of them off.
 
  Security features  
 
  Community Builder is secure! There are numerous security features that protect member's sensitive data. Some of them are listed below.  
 
  1. Server Firewall: A firewall with all ports closed except those that are absolutely required to run the site is the only gateway to the actual web and database servers. This reduces the number of attack vectors to the servers themselves to the absolute minimum.
 
  2. HTTPS: All sites are secured with an HTTPS certificate so data is encrypted from the user's browser to the web server and back to the user.
 
  3. CloudFlare.com: The CloudFlare service (CloudFlare.com) is used to block inbound IP requests from sketchy country's like China, Russia, North Korea, etc.
 
  4. DDOS: The CloudeFlare (CloudFlare.com) service also helps prevent Distributed Denial of Service attacks.
 
  5. Strong Passwords: Passwords must be strong. They must be at least 10 characters with numbers, letters, and symbols. However, we go much further than that. When you enter a password we do what is known as add salt to it. Salting a password means adding additional characters to your password before it is SHA512 hashed. Again we go even further than this. We salt each password by adding random characters of random length in a randon position before SHA512 hashing a password. By salting a password before hashing it means it would take trillions of years to find the reverse hash using even the best technology currently available. However, in the nearly impossible event that one password is reverse hashed, what they learned cracking one password will not work on any other password and the hacker would have to start from scratch on every other password!
 
  6. 5 Minute Lockout: After 5 failed login attempts the account is locked for 5 minutes preventing brute force attacks.
 
  7. SHA512 Password Hashing: User passwords are NOT stored in the database. Only a SHA512 hash of the password is stored. To make it even more secure, before hashing the password a random salt of random length is added to the password in a random position before performing the SHA512 hash. Also the salt is not stored anywhere. This also means that if a user forgets their password they can only request a link to reset their password. Once a password reset is sent to their email they must click the link in the email which contains a unique key in the url. The site verifies the key is the same one sent to the user. Once the key is verified they must also answer one of the security questions they provided an answer for when they created their account. Only then can they reset their password.
 
  8. SQL Injection Attacks: To thwart these types of attacks almost all interactions with the database are performed using stored procedures. This creates a separation between the actual SQL statement and the parameter values. This means a hacker can never breach the barrier of these two and confuse the computer into mixing the SQL code and the parameter values. For those few instances where dynamic SQL is used it is ALWAYS passed through a sanitizing routine that removes unnecessary SQL key words as well as characters that could indicated that malicious SQL or JavaScript code was injected.
 
  9. XSS or Cross Site Scripting: To thwart Cross Site Scripting attacks (where a hacker attempts to get malicious JavaScript code to run on your system) all user input is html encoded which converts any JavaScript characters into the ASCII equivalent character strings which neutralizes the JavaScript from being able to run on the system.
 
  10. RSA Encryption of Sensitive Data: Sensitive user data such as (first name, last name, email address, phone number, and address) are stored in the database as RSA encrypted data. So if a hacker ever breaches the server and somehow manages to steal the data all they will be able to see of the user's sensitive data is encrypted strings. The RSA encryption procedure uses a public and private key methodology. The public and private keys are stored in a separate database on a different machine so there is a separation of concerns of the two data stores.
 
  11. AES Encryption of Session Data: ALL session data stored temporarily in the servers memory heap is first encrypted with AES (Advanced Encryption Standard) encryption. In the extremely unlikely event a hackers gains access the servers memory the only data they will see is strongly encrypted. Also coding techniques such as the using directive is employed so that even the server's stack data is destroyed immediately after the data is encrypted and added to the session.
 
  12. Open Redirects: Open redirects can be used as a "man in the middle" attack vector. If a web application uses open redirects without checking that the redirect is only redirecting within their own domain a hacker can send an unsuspecting user to a "duplicate" malicious site and the user doesn't even know this has happened. They are asked to log in on the malicious site (which looks perfectly legit) and their information is recorded but then they are redirected back to the correct site nun the wiser. Community Builder does NOT use open redirects at all so this can not be used as an attack vector against Community Builder members!

Open redirects explained - click here
 
  13. No Cookie Policy: We love Cookie monster but he would likely starve on Community Builder because we have no cookies. To those who may be unaware cookies can represent a security threat in certain cases. Using XSS (cross site scripting attacks) hackers can steal your cookies and use them in a variety of malicious ways. Community Builder does NOT use cookies... at all...period! This thwarts any possible attack vectors that use cookies since there are none to steal...at all...period!

For more information on how cookies can track you and compromise your privacy here is a link to a YouTube video that explains it all very clearly!
Cookies explained - click here

But what's worse is that cookies can be stolen using XSS (cross site scripting) and used to hack your accounts:
How cookies can be stolen - click here
 
  14. Two Factor Authentication: Two factor login authentication using Google Authenticator will be available soon.
 
  Example sites  
     
    Below are a few example sites of how Community Builder can be used:
     
  1. CommunityBuilder.live is the main site where you can read about all of the capabilities of the Community Builder social media platform.
    Community Builder - click here
 
  2. The Robotics Code Depot is a social networking site dedicated to people interested in the field of robotics:
    The Robotics Code Depot - click here
 
  3. Community Prime is a community for everyone that wants to stay up to date with all of the COVID-19 news and media mis-information being spread. There are links to news articles and videos posted giving people the truth about the dangers of the "jab":
    Community Prime - click here
 
  Monthly cost $  
 
    Community Builder is now a FREE service! However, we do offer some premium modules for business clients such as:
  1. Online Timesheets
  2. Project Management Software
  3. Equipment Management Software
  4. Adver-Gaming or Game-vertising Software
 
  Feel free to give it a try  
     
    If you are interested in trying the Community Builder platform yourself please feel free to reach out. I would be happy to have a conversation with you regarding how Community Builder can help you build your own community and communicate with others with similar interests. It will cost you nothing to find out more about the platform and all of it's features. If there is something you need which it currently doe NOT do I would be happy to discuss what can be custom built for your community. In many cases new features can be implemented in just a few short weeks.
     
    Best Regards,
    Blake C. Mann
    bmann@ContinuumSoftware.com