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Social networking

Social platforms that can carry the load and the duty

Moderation queues, reporting flows and the infrastructure for a user base that arrives at once. Built on a platform that took 30,000+ concurrent users.

17 Mar 2025Date Ofcom could enforce the illegal content duties
24 Jul 2025Date children risk assessments were due
30,000+Concurrent users in our nearest build
1Month to deliver the first phase
What this is

A feed is a safety system as well as a product

The Online Safety Act puts duties on services where users can post to each other. The systems that let a platform find, review and remove content have to work at the same scale as the feed.

Where we have proof

a platform that carried 30,000+ concurrent users, built on microservices and AWS Kinesis

Where we have not yet

We have no published social networking case. We say so on the first call and show the closest work.

Services

What we build for social platforms

Moderation queues and tools

Reports routed to reviewers with context and a decision recorded.

Reporting and appeal flows

Users report, moderators decide, and the record shows both.

Scalable feed backends

Microservices and event streaming for spikes.

Community and identity systems

Profiles, groups and permissions.

Trust and safety reporting

Volumes, response times and outcomes.

Privacy and age controls

Settings and defaults for young users.

Rules

What the Online Safety Act put on services

These come from Ofcom and gov.uk pages on the Act.

Illegal content duties from 17 March 2025Ofcom could begin enforcing the illegal content duties from that date. Source: Ofcom, Online Safety Act.
Children risk assessments due 24 July 2025Services likely to be accessed by children had to complete a children risk assessment by that date. Source: same Ofcom pages.
User-to-user and search servicesThe Act covers user-to-user services and search services. Source: same Ofcom pages.
Case study

The nearest build we can show you

Cryptocurrency marketing platform built by Dev Station
Fintech, Hong Kong

Cryptocurrency marketing platform

Different sector, same load. A platform connecting thousands of users had to support 30,000+ concurrent users, with one month for the first phase. We delivered on microservices and AWS Kinesis, with .NET and Angular.

30,000+Concurrent users supported
Who we build for

The teams who call us

Community platform founders

Teams past the first version and facing real traffic.

Creator and fan platforms

Where one event brings the whole audience at once.

Dating and messaging apps

Products where reports and age checks are daily work.

Trust and safety teams

Teams who need better tools around the moderators they already have.

Related reading: game software, news and media software and politics software.

FAQs

What buyers ask first

Do you have a social networking case?

Not yet published. We say so on the first call and show the closest work, which is a high-concurrency platform delivered in one month.

Do you give advice on the Online Safety Act?

No. That advice comes from your lawyers and Ofcom. We build the moderation and reporting systems they specify.

Can you add moderation to a platform that exists?

Usually. We start with the queue and the audit trail, then connect it to your content store.

Who owns the code and the cloud accounts?

You do, from the first commit. Repositories and cloud accounts stay in your name.

Send us your moderation flow

Thirty minutes with the engineers on how a report travels, who sees it and how long it takes.

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