One of the reasons I subscribed to give this fork a go was this problem with EasySocial that I notified StackIdeas about and they have not fixed.
The installation requires MyISAM, which was deprecated some years ago. My DigitalOcean DB server doesn't even support it. If using InnoDB installation fails at "installing database".
The fix is simple, as I told StackIdeas more than a year ago.
Delete ENGINE=MyISAM from each of these files in setup/packages/com_easysocial_BGv5.0.1_pro.zip
queries.zip
• Access.sql
• Ads.sql
• Alert.sql
• Apps.sql
• Ausios.sql
• Avatars.sql
• Badges.sql
• Clusters.sql
• Conversations.sql
• Fields.sql
• Files.sql
• Friends.sql
• Marketplaces.sql
• Notifications.sql
• Oath.sql
• Photos.sql
• Points.sql
• Privacy.sql
• Reviews.sql
• Stream.sql
• System.sql
• Tags.sql
• Videos.sql
• Workflows.sql
userfields.zip
\relationship\install.sql
#201 ENGINE=MyISAM
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Latest post by CreativeGraphics Support on Sunday, 15 March 2026 16:49 UTC
Saturday, 14 March 2026 10:46 UTC
Sunday, 15 March 2026 11:31 UTC
You are right.
I revoved it, it is no use to leave this.
You will find the adapted .sql-files in CRE8 Social Version 5.0.2 I release today.
Sunday, 15 March 2026 12:06 UTC
I have released the new version 5.0.2 and removed the obsolete ENGINE=MyISAM in all .sql-files. Joomla itself doesn't even set anything there, so it all works out fine.
Thank you very much for reporting.
Have a nice day.
Best regards, Pascal
Sunday, 15 March 2026 14:55 UTC
Perfect, thanks Pascal
Sunday, 15 March 2026 16:49 UTC
Closing this as the issue could be resolved.
Thank you for reporting. Wasn't aware that this is causing issues.
Have a nice evening.
Best regards, Pascal