I would like to ask for an optional list of avatars derived from the category’s permissions to be displayed at the top of a category. This would help bring to mind the relevant audience and (the hope is) improve discussion.
That’s how I’m doing it now, but someone would has to go looking for it:
They have to find the “About” topic, click on it, click on the group @mention, and then scroll through the group to see if Bob is here. (Or whatever question they’re trying to find.)
A more obvious Basecamp-style list would be preferable for our case and would be workable for small teams. The benefit is not just being able to answer questions like “Is Bob in this group?”, but also to provide a visual reminder of the current audience.
A feature like this is not straight-forward to implement, though: what counts as “access” if you have convoluted permissions like this:
@super: create / reply / see
@regular: reply / see
@viewers: see
My hunch would be to show avatars for everyone who has viewing rights and maybe providing a dialog with additional info.
There’s currently no one place where someone can go and see all their messages, as I noted here:
There are other issues with groups – but the short of it as that using categories requires more finagling on my end, as the admin, but is more understandable for users.
Here’s how I’ve worked around the permissions issue:
