I would like to develop a social network with groups for each street in a town. Suggestions?

In Discourse groups are collections of users. Categories are collections of topics. You can use groups to control access to categories. It’s sort-of a bad idea to have hundreds of categories (tags are lighter weight), but it’s less-bad now than it was a while back. You might use tags for the stree…

Not sure how long these streets are or how many people are on each, but that seems pretty micro for a community. I’m not sure if you’ve looked through how Nextdoor is set up with neighborhoods. Unfortunately, I don’t have any commentary for you that’s helpful technically. No idea if you can import …

The Locations Plugin might be a very useful start but it doesn’t presently group anyone. However it does get you to the point where you can record users accurate addresses … Oh and you can give a Topic a location too … Combine the two and could give you a very interesting Topic List query … This…

Perfectly explained.. THANKS Barney

Wow…that is worth a thought. I am trying to build a social network for a Town where groups start with apartment blocks (Condos), then Zip Codes then the entire town This could be so powerful

Hi Barney – Just thinking of how I might join a town forum to talk about local topics… but not if it meant registering my street address, or participating in narrow geographic groups or categories that would make my location obvious. Feels like “we’re in the same town” should be enough. So, I’m cur…

I would want to give you a word of caution: too many small groups will lead to a lot of quiet groups, it’s not fun to be in a community with 3 other people. I’ve always been enamoured by the strategy Nextdoor took when starting out. They required 10 “founding members” to unlock a neighbourhood. I …

I live in one of four apartments in a large house here in Tunbridge Wells. There is a need for residents in this house to chat, organise and plan maintenance in a confidential forum. So yes, it’s a small group, but it’s a highly functional one, and one that cannot be satisfied by either Facebook or …

The groups have to be private. If our house had a rat infestation we wouldn’t want the Town to know. It’s great to have this conversation

Предложения, как создать сотни небольших групп (например, улицы в городе)?

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You may not need groups at all if you are not concerned about privacy and all topics are public, only filtering topics by proximity.

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Locations Plugin :earth_africa:

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Предложения, как создать сотни небольших групп (например, улицы в городе)?

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