On the 120th day of FetLife John created Groups by JohnBaku

What is a group? A group is just another way of saying a “club”. I know, I know, I say club and you think Chess Club (which I was a member of in elementary school). But on FetLife, I think our clubs are going to have a slightly different feel to them.

What can you do with groups now: * you can create as many groups as you want * you can join and leave a group * you can start discussions and respond to discussions on groups * the groups you are apart of are listed on your profile

People have been asking for forums and this is where forums come in. Each group in essence has it’s own forum.

One thing I need to stress is that the person who starts the group is the group admin and is responsible for the group. If people behave badly it is your responsibility to take care of it and I will be creating tools to help you do this over the next month.

So how do I create a new group? There is no link on FetLife right now to create a new group because I wanted to let my blog readers at it first. So to start a new group you have to go here:

http://fetlife.com/groups/new

This is just the first iteration of groups and I am going to be spending the rest of the month improving on them.

How do you like groups so far? What would you do to improve them?


7 Comments »

  1. I am sure you are working hard on these things, I just want to make sure you are developing a way of searching for groups.

    Comment by Shatteredsoul — April 1, 2008

  2. When you do a global search groups come up! :-)

    Comment by JohnBaku — April 1, 2008

  3. Very cool new function.

    How about a function where the group leader can delete a discussion (cause I started one 2x by accident :-S) or a comment in a discussion, or remove a member.

    Keep up the great work

    Comment by Lady Evyl — April 5, 2008

  4. These things will be coming very shortly! :-)

    Comment by JohnBaku — April 5, 2008

  5. I think it would be a nice feature to be able to edit your own post in a discussion. I missed a few typos in mine, and it’s driving me nuts.

    Comment by His_panther — April 13, 2008

  6. You can edit a post… it is just comments to posts you can not edit as of yet. :-)

    Comment by JohnBaku — April 13, 2008

  7. dear john for some reason I have been unable to access fetlife - I keep getting bad server internal error 500 this has been for the past 3 days is there anything wrong w/ the site links , can you suggest a “backdoor”? thanks

    Comment by mcourtney — September 7, 2008

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