I really like the new features and enhancements. I also have a question about smileys, could you provide more information about it? Why not convert database to utf8mb4 and use emojis?

raised on github and marked as accepted, wondered if update?https://github.com/SocialEngine/phpv4-feature-requests/issues/36Just wondered if any plans for SE to add a feature that will fully remove plugins and their database entries into MySQL
I was...  moreraised on github and marked as accepted, wondered if update?https://github.com/SocialEngine/phpv4-feature-requests/issues/36Just wondered if any plans for SE to add a feature that will fully remove plugins and their database entries into MySQL
I was recently removing a plugin and followed the guide provided https://support.socialengine.com/php/customer/en/portal/articles/2121821-how-to-remove-delete-a-plugin-from-your-website?b_id=14386
But out of curiosity i thought ill reinstall the plugin, once installed i found the plugin was already activated with its licence key and all its settings even tho i deleted all entries it made in the my.sql file in the settings folder of the plugin, but because of the mentioned it did not add the queries to the database, instead it completely ignored all entries into the database, because there was entries in other tables for the plugin, which are not shown in the my.sql file, there was no referance anywhere to where these random files were hiding, but they were...    less

 I believe this is an optimization. It works if you click Search when on the browse page. This reduces database queries. Imagine a site with 100k users. Before, going to the member browse would immediately do a query to the database to get all users...  more I believe this is an optimization. It works if you click Search when on the browse page. This reduces database queries. Imagine a site with 100k users. Before, going to the member browse would immediately do a query to the database to get all users and a count. That's a big query and getting bigger as the site grows. 
Stopping that initial query reduces load on the server. Users can click Search to get the count and that'll make the query happen at the time but at least it wouldn't be an automated query x the number of users and visitors going to the member browse page x the number of members in the database.  less

 
So for example, if you have 10 tabs each with 10 items in it, then obviously http requests and database access is required at some point for the Content in the Tabs.  That's a lot of http requests and database access just for one page load...  more 
So for example, if you have 10 tabs each with 10 items in it, then obviously http requests and database access is required at some point for the Content in the Tabs.  That's a lot of http requests and database access just for one page load (besides all the other stuff on the page of course).