The AEM Communities featurepacks are usually available to all AEM Communities customers. The 6.1 featurepack was temporarily removed from packageshare to address an issue that was found after it was posted. A replacement package is being tested right now and should be available publicly very soon. 

For 6.1 GM unfortunately using the deprecated SocialUtils is the only option. There will be an upcoming Communities FP4 for 6.1 which will offer the new APIs that will also be in 6.2.

One reason: ACLs on the pages are typically different than ACLs on the UGC itself. Typically UGC can be edited by the original poster as well as privileged users, whereas the corresponding pages cannot.Second, the page nodes are always stored in JCR and only forward replicated. For UGC nodes, in AEM...

There are no hard-coded limits to the number of forums and comments that are supported in AEM Communities. The limitations will derive from the topologies and storage approaches that are chosen for the project. Millions of posts/comments in thousands of forums would be reasonably achievable using ei...

Integration of AEM with Jive is not a feature at the AEM product level. It could be done through customization since both AEM and Jive provide server endpoints for integration, but it would likely be a lot of work. AEM offers content management and approval workflows as well as community and collabo...

When UGC is stored in JCR, it can be inspected by using CRXDE. It is not supported to inspect or operate on the mongomk nodes directly as the format or structure may change in future releases. Beginning with social communities 1.4 which was available in 5.6.1 the recommended API to interact with UGC...

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Hi Jai1122,If you leave out the cq-quickstart dependency, what classes are not found? I recommend you open a Daycare support case with the details as it is not obvious to me what quickstart dependency to use for 5.6.1. Is it possible for you to upgrade (ideally to 6.1)? 

Hi Jai1122,The individual social component jars should not be used as dependencies in your project due to the fact that they are not available on the public maven repository. They are not public intentionally due to security and policy. The classes needed for a project are available in the api jars....

The package is available now and can be requested by opening a daycare ticket. We like to have a conversation with each customer doing a migration to check if there are any corner cases to be considered.Don