Getting started with Vanilla Forums' Groups Feature

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Getting started with Vanilla Forums' Groups Feature

As your community grows, it’s natural for it to diversify. The traditional forum structure of discussion categories can start to break down when hundreds of users need special permission changes to access private areas on an ongoing basis. That structure also doesn’t handle community events well. A popular workaround is to “Announce” an event’s discussion Read more...

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Trekkingbase

Hi,
is the groups addon nowadays available for self-hosted vanilla forums, too?

Adrian

@Trekkingbase The Groups add-on is only available on hosted. There are no plans at this time to add it to the open source release.

sammenter

could groups replace categories?

Adrian

@sammenter it's not recommended as a replacement. It's something supplemental to be used in really big communities.