Question? Social Groups?, what do you think

[Bombardier]

I have received a user question asking if it is possible to create Social Groups, I guess similar to the old MSN groups.

Well this is a possibility but I don't want to implement something that would be of little interest to our current members or future members

These are the features that a Social Group could have

Gallery and Media:

• Members of group can create album inside group
• Albums visibility be controlled by group privacy. (Please see Group Privacy section for more information)

Group Forums: Fully integrate with Mi.Net forums.

• Each group will have their own forum to post their own threads and use Mi.Net sub-forums to archive these threads. These threads are shown to the public or not depending on group Privacy options.
• Archive all groups forums to single Mi.Net node.

Group Privacy: Public, Closed and Secret. Each privacy option has its own settings.

• Public Group:
  • Anyone can see the group
  • Anyone can see contents in the group
  • Shown in the group list
• Closed Group:
  • Anyone can see the group
  • Only members can see contents in the group
  • Shown in the group list
• Secret Group:
  • Only members and authorized users (set in User Group Permissions) can see the group and its content
  • Only authorized users (set in User Group Permissions) can create Secret Groups

Group invitations:

• Send an invitation: Only Public and Closed Groups are supported. Each invitation sent, user will receive a notification. User can easily manage the invitations they received from Invited Groups page.
• Add users to group: Only Secret Groups are supported. This feature allows authorized members to add an user to the group without their permission.

Notification system:

• Notification Alerts can be turned on/off. Each member has ability to choose either Forum Alerts or Email. You can find this feature in group navigation.
• Status Alerts. If this option is enabled, you will received notifications when a status posted in newsfeeds. This option only works when notification alerts are on.

Other features:

• Ability to set one or more groups become Featured Groups
• Ability to transfer ownership to another user
• Much more….