TheMighty is the world’s top Health Social Network! They have over 700 communities of users whose lives are touched by mental and physical health conditions and diseases. With over 3.5 million users, their platform is the best place to find a support system around just about any health condition or disease. Read inspiring stories, heart wrenching realities, and extremely relatable content across their site! Have a story to share? Join their community of millions and tell your tale in a community of people who can relate!
Chris started working with Mike and his team back when TheMighty was a blog filled with skillful writers and inspiring stories. TheMighty wanted to revitalize the brand and improve their user experience. Chris got to work and created a new theme packed with features that elevated their user experience. He then migrated them to AWS and cranked up the speed with massive performance improvements across the board.
Later Chris lead a team of engineers tasked with transforming TheMighty from a blog to a Health Social Network with millions of users. Chris and team implemented customized social mechanics, including: a completely custom commenting & chat system built for reporting and user recon, story submission systems to grow the team of writers, complete UGC creation and management workflow and system, customized feed algorithm prioritizing recent content with high engagement on topics users follow, advanced admin tools for managing users and writing topics, complex newsletter generation systems, and literally hundreds of other amazing features.
Over the years, Chris played a central role in all key technology decisions and directions for this Health Social Network. Chris used his experience and expertise to solve the abstract technical challenges that accompany millions of users in a single platform, by combining all of his skills and techniques into customized solutions that created the foundation of one of the top social networks in the world.
Highlights from Services Provided for Health Social Network
Development & Implementation
- Multiple new site designs
- Android and iOS app built on Flutter
- Complete overhaul of frontend using VueJS
- Improved speed using backend NodeJS for certain components
- Story submission tools
- UGC components for content generation
- Workflows for moderation of UGC and publishing tools for admins
- Social interaction mechanisms, such as hearting
- User management and grouping tools
- Newsletter generation, management, and organization tools
- Invented a new feed algorithm that increased user engagement
- Ads implementations on multiple fronts, including native and bidding
- SSO Authorization across multiple devices and sites/apps
- Commenting system built for reporting, moderation, and user recon
- Analytics platform for internal usages
- Lead generation and user acquisition tools
- Admin tools for staff efficiency
- many, many more features
Maintenance
- Daily releases, updates, security, and stability improvements
- Iterative improvements on site speed, SEO, user acquisition, and analytics
- 1-second granularity backups and recoveries
- Hosting migration, setup, and daily management of this health social network
- Third-party service exploration, selection, deprecation, replacement and improvements
- Complete server & hosting management on AWS
Security
- Comprehensive WordPress security analysis & report
- Server & Services level audit
- Complete server management, setup, and lockdown
- Auto scaling enabled based on user patterns
- Password policy creation & enforcement
- Firewall level client blocking
- Round the clock security monitoring
- Identified abuse and responded for this health social network
Custom Themes & Plugins
- Completely custom, high-availability tuned theme
- Almost 100 custom plugins
- DFP integration with custom dashboards in admin panel
- Integrations with a variety of third-party tools and APIs
- Newsletter editor and feed system
- Admin improvements for staff efficiency
- Caching & security plugins
- Merging of WordPress and NodeJS for presentation
- Search and feed algorithm invention
- Analytics service and accompanying plugin
- Flutter community contributions from app work
- Integrations with majority of AWS services
Search
- Performance & structural improvements on WP core search
- Algorithm for increasing user engagement
- Improvements to Admin dashboard search capabilities
- Integration with AWS Elasticsearch & DynamoDB
- Merging of WordPress database with MongoDB for speed
- Auto classification of content, both UGC and blog, for filtering
Hosting Setup
- Evaluation of hosting costs monthly
- Multiple migrations of hosting providers
- AWS account setup and daily management
- Configuration of Multi-zone N+2 AWS Auto-Scaling & EC2 + Aurora
- Integration of CloudFlare & interaction with CloudFlare API
- NewRelic setup and administration
- Advanced automated monitoring and response workflows