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 preview in the Group’s settings, but not for any of the group members I’ve added. I’ve added 2 admins and 2 regular users. If there’s a “Guide to Using Groups in Discourse” I’d love to read through it. Thanks!

[imagem] 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 need to set the user’s primary group to every other group before you set it to the one you want.

[imagem] 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. Direct incoming emails at a specific address as Discourse PMs for this Group. Have a feed of that group posts across a site, eg: Discourse team - Discourse Meta If you want to [imagem] CapedCrusader: simply post to the group. You may be looking to create a new category and restrict all access of this new category for this group.

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: [imagem] Falco: Direct incoming emails at a specific address as Discourse PMs for this Group.

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?

[imagem] 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.

[imagem] 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 is a useful feature of Discourse. The join/request features added by @tgxworld work brilliantly. To some extent my “opt in categories” operate like Facebook Groups (which is a good thing) with some notable drawbacks: forum members are unable to start new groups of their own opting in to a “group” to see an opt-in category is confusing UX (I’d prefer users could opt-in directly to categories via some redesigned UI). 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-intuitive These drawbacks concern me, because Facebook Groups are drawing users away from my forum. Only today, a user created a Facebook Group rather than continuing discussion on the Discourse instance. And the same thing happened a few days ago in another discussion on one of my forums. There are many ways in which Discourse is better than Facebook. However, our support for user-run Groups lags at the moment and IMO would be a priority to improve.

[imagem] 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-intuitive These two seem like things we could improve. Any thoughts @sam?

Hey @ChrisBeach, can you send a link to one or more of your forums about which you said: [imagem] 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

[imagem] 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) 25 Fevereiro , 2019 21:34 8

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

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