[YabbaDabba]

Originally Posted by Phalynx

Just a short note: SocialForums 2.0 is now in work. It will work only with vBulletin 3.8 and replace it's Discussions.

Thank you, thank you, thank you!

Originally Posted by Phalynx

Please tell me what you are expecting from this, f.e. new features.

Perhaps this is already possible and I just can't find it. Presently, we place all SF forums in a parent "Groups" forum that has a forced skin assignment (different from the regular non-group forums). It would be very useful if all the SF forums would inherit that "forced" skin. So a control in the SF Config such as "New forums automatically inherit Parent forum skin assignment? [ ] yes" would be wonderful!

Less important, but requiring non-trivial code:
The ability for a member to select a forum assignment for his new SF. That is, we have about a dozen "sub-category" forums to hold the member-created group forums. We'd like to allow the member to select the best match during the SF forum creation process. I imagine a control in the SF Config such as "SF creator-selectable parent forum assignments [ ]" with a text box that accepts a csv list of forum IDs would be necessary in the config panel and a drop down list of category names for the SF forum creator to select from.

"Groups" Forum set up as a category (parent forum)
-- Subgroup category A
---- SocialForum A1 run by member "XYZ"
---- SocialForum A2 run by member "Abc"
-- Subgroup category B
---- SocialForum B1 run by member "123"
---- SocialForum B2 run by member "asdf"
---- SocialForum B3 run by member "999"
-- Subgroup category C
---- SocialForum C1 run by member "XYZ"
---- SocialForum C2 run by member "jkl"


Other minor ideas/suggestions:

• Help pop-ups for all SF config options
• An option for "Show X threads" to enable "All"
• "Parent forum" description suggestion: "All newly created social forums are placed here."

[Varsh]

Is there a possibility of allowing SG Leaders to be able to create a Project and have it added to their forum? Also maybe have an option to allow SG Leaders moved to a different usergroup if set to yes.

[subnet_rx]

I would almost say keep it the way it is also, the only thing that really confused me was permissioning. I had been operating with groups for a while before social groups came along using the groups that was built-in to vB. I'd create a group for someone, they would petition people to join, then upon getting enough members, I'd create a forum for them. The forum would show permissions for that group. With SG forums, you don't see permissions for the social group, just all other member groups on your forum.

Also, I don't know if I would put the forum inside the SG page. My members like the posts being listed in the new posts search. To be honest, I've always thought you could mod the old vB groups system to have a pretty comprehensive social group forum feature.

[Fraik]

Thats awesome! Here are a few features I'd think would be awesome, if possible:

1. Group avatar in forum description
2. Group category in forum description
3. Remove forum option for group leader
4. Automatically remove forum upon group removal
5. Automatically change forum moderator upon group leader change

Again, great work and thanks for the effort

[punchbowl]

I'd like it pretty much as is.

[Bluefin221]

Has anyone encountered the following problem? I upgraded to 3.8.0 and when trying to approve pending members I received the following error: Fatal error: Call to a member function set_existing() on a non-object in /home/main/public_html/forums/group.php on line 3999

[Varsh]

There have been some hooks that have been renamed that's why, this plugin will not work with 3.8 so please keep this in mind, it most likely will be updated soon as this is a very popular mod.

[Thelonius Beck]

Originally Posted by punchbowl

I'd like it pretty much as is.

Second.

The biggest issue with vB's Social Groups is it's lack of visibility. By creating forums to be displayed on forumhome, this mod greatly increased my members interest in using Social Groups.

[Mum]

Can't wait for the 3.8 version.

[Bluefin221]

Is there any movement on this? My members have been getting restless as they love the feature.

[Phalynx]

Currently in preparation, as my time is very limited for this. Also, I'm away from tomorrow until thursday, so no development will be done in this time.

[Varsh]

Originally Posted by Bluefin221

Is there any movement on this? My members have been getting restless as they love the feature.

Just tell them that they'll have to wait, patience my pedigree chum, we're all wanting and waiting for this, and I'm sure this'll be much better than before.

[Locutus2999]

I also can't wait for this to work with 3.8!

Thanks for the work you do.

[Bluefin221]

Originally Posted by Phalynx

Currently in preparation, as my time is very limited for this. Also, I'm away from tomorrow until thursday, so no development will be done in this time.

Thanks very much for responding.

[jilly]

Originally Posted by Phalynx

Currently in preparation, as my time is very limited for this. Also, I'm away from tomorrow until thursday, so no development will be done in this time.

Oh, you are going to upgrade this? Oh, that is so cool!! My members will be overjoyed!!!!