Improvement suggestion for groups
Posted: Thu Feb 18, 2010 3:20 pm
I think groups could be used more efficiently. Currently it seems a little like people join groups just to get a badge showing "hey, I'm interested in this topic" and then forget about it.
As I see it the problems are:
* Groups are inaccessible, in that you first have to go to your profile, scroll down a little and then click the group logo.
* You don't get any indication of group activity, so you manually have to check each group for new posts. I don't want to have to use RSS for this.
* Groups doesn't provide much additional functionality compared to the forum.
So heres some suggestion (which might not work together, so pick the ones you like)
* Your group list (on profile) shows number of new posts, next to each group.
* Add a big Groups button at the top of the page. It could take you to a stream of posts from all your groups and of course a link to the page with all groups.
* Remove Group Posts entirely but automatically create a subforum for each group. These would show up in a category in the regular forum. A nice feature would be if it by default only displayed the forums belonging to groups that you're a member of, but you could toggle "display all group forums" easily.
As I see it the problems are:
* Groups are inaccessible, in that you first have to go to your profile, scroll down a little and then click the group logo.
* You don't get any indication of group activity, so you manually have to check each group for new posts. I don't want to have to use RSS for this.
* Groups doesn't provide much additional functionality compared to the forum.
So heres some suggestion (which might not work together, so pick the ones you like)
* Your group list (on profile) shows number of new posts, next to each group.
* Add a big Groups button at the top of the page. It could take you to a stream of posts from all your groups and of course a link to the page with all groups.
* Remove Group Posts entirely but automatically create a subforum for each group. These would show up in a category in the regular forum. A nice feature would be if it by default only displayed the forums belonging to groups that you're a member of, but you could toggle "display all group forums" easily.