Notify All Group Owners for Membership Requests

[neemiasvf (Neemias Freitas)]

Hi there!

I’m not sure if this is a bug or not, but I’ve been doing some research for quite a while now and didn’t find anything related to my problem, so here it goes:

In my Discourse instance, I have a closed group where people can request to join. When a request is made, all group owners should be notified and included in the personal message, right? Wrong. There wasn’t a single request where all group owners were notified; it was always some of the owners, apparently picked randomly. And this keeps happening every time and it’s been happening for a long time, even with all the updates and stuff. So I beg to ask: is this a bug? Or is Discourse actually programmed to notify only some of the group owners and not all of them?

Some relevant information:

• the given group currently has 10 group owners;
• some of the group owners are moderators and others are administrators, but all of them are staff members.

Could someone shed some light on this?
Perhaps I’m doing something wrong or didn’t configure a setting correctly…

[neemiasvf (Neemias Freitas)]

Alright, I just found this: FIX: Only send membership request to the last 5 active group owners. · discourse/discourse@ad4a96d · GitHub

Could we make this customisable?

I’m basically bringing up this topic again:

Improving the Groups page for 1.7

One of the last big things on the 1.7 release list is to improve the groups page. @tgxworld will be working on this in December, so I wanted to gather feedback and make sure we didn’t miss anything. Here’s what I remember about it so far: general cleanup of the groups page design, not a radical redesign but make it more… presentable. show the group avatar (that @neil already worked on) on the group page prominently, since that is how the group is iden…

Specially the comments on the limit of 5 members:

Improving the Groups page for 1.7

Not sure we need any cap since only owners are specified in the to: line. I guess last 5 active owners adds a sanity limit, but do people generally have more than 5 owners. Also, perhaps all owners should get the PM. The larger issue IMO in the @mention in the body of the owner notification email. A workaround is here. This @mention issue and who gets notified isn’t really related to this group feature, but the specific PM generated could use a fix.

[Hanon_Ondricek]

Is there a strategy to know when there is a long-standing group add-request? We have several groups on our forum that get most traffic only during specific times of year, and if someone requests at an odd time, it often sits there for days and weeks. Since there are about sixteen groups, it’s a bit of a chore to click into each one and check the request tab daily.

Our group owners often aren’t frequent participants off-season, however as mod and admin I am on the forum daily. Is the best way to just make myself one of the group-owners in every group so I am notified of requests?

[codinghorror (Jeff Atwood)]

Is the best way to just make myself one of the group-owners in every group so I am notified of requests?

Any thoughts on this @nbianca, what are some possible ideas?

[nbianca (Bianca)]

I have a few ideas here, but the one I like the most is to change the current groups page to show the number of membership requests too. It should be a simple change that would offer an overview of all the active requests.

I like the third mock up (see 4th group), but am open to suggestions.

Another thing I can think of is to add a new page (or to the bottom of group lists or a tab on the groups page) that would list all active membership requests, but I believe it would complicate things more than it is needed.