Hi there, Is there a guide for learning the ins and outs of Discourse “Groups” The setup process went smoothly enough, but now that I’m trying to actually use the Group I’ve created, I can’t figure out how to simply post to the group. The awesome little avatar flair image shows up in the prev…

[image] CapedCrusader: If a user is in more than one group, which Flair will be used for that user? As far as I can tell, you can never guess. The only way to get things to work in terms of group flair is to manually set the Primary Group of every individual manually. And even then, you might…

[image] CapedCrusader: I can’t figure out how to simply post to the group. Groups in Discourse are just a collection of users. They allow you to: Restrict a category usage. Eg: only this group can see, only that group can post, etc. Give group members, flairs, titles, trust_levels, etc…

Wow, @Falco , that was so enlightening. Thanks! I misunderstood “Groups” as some sort of private category with select membership and visibility. How do I locate the specific email address for a group, per: [image] Falco: Direct incoming emails at a specific address as Discourse PMs for this G…

Also, any thoughts @Falco on why the Flair isn’t showing up for the group members I’ve added to my first group? If a user is in more than one group, which Flair will be used for that user? Is there some override/priority system?

[image] jtbayly: The only way to get things to work in terms of group flair is to manually set the Primary Group of every individual manually. Bullseye @jtbayly . Once I manually set each group member’s Primary Group to the desired group, the flair appeared.

[image] CapedCrusader: I misunderstood “Groups” as some sort of private category with select membership and visibility. I’ve set up a few groups on my forums with accompanying private categories. I refer to these as “opt in categories” Having the ability to define arbitrary groups of users i…

[image] ChrisBeach: if a user tries to follow a link to an opt-in category / topic that they’re not opted in to see, they get an unhelpful error, and no means of opting in. the “group page” / “group activity” model has no UX linkage to the accompanying category, and is therefore counter-intuiti…

Hey @ChrisBeach , can you send a link to one or more of your forums about which you said: [image] ChrisBeach: To some extent my “opt in categories” operate like Facebook Groups (which is a good thing) with some notable drawbacks: Thanks!

https://se23.life/groups https://se26.life/groups

[image] ChrisBeach: the “group page” / “group activity” model has no UX linkage to the accompanying category, and is therefore counter-intuitive Can you do a feature request topic for this with proposed UX change, even a simple hand drawn thing is fine.

Wow, this is really awesome. Nicely done!

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codinghorror (Jeff Atwood) February 25, 2019, 9:34pm 8

These two seem like things we could improve. Any thoughts @sam?

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