This is a feature we’ve been thinking about for our forum too.
On our forum, we have a somewhat large number of groups, and we can distinguish a few different types of groups that we maintain:
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Skill groups: These are game development professions like “Programmer”, “3D Modeler”, etc. Users can join these freely to display the corresponding title on their forum user.
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Community groups: Specific committees/initiatives by community members that they have requested a group for so they can maintain a message inbox.
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Language groups: We have a highly multi-national community, so we have some groups (i.e. “French Developers”, “German Developers”, etc) so that people can show off their nationality and chat with each other on normally-hidden subcategories.
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Staff groups: several groups that contain teams in our company with title/flair so that users can easily recognize and get in contact with us.
I think it would be really neat if we could organize these groups in four categories on our forum instance.
Has any work been put into this feature yet / into finalizing a spec for this feature? We originally wanted to develop this as a plugin for our forum specifically, but I would be happy to collaborate on this.