The "Groups" feature is not my favorite thing (to put it mildly). Just like expected, a lot of groups spawned – and didn't get many members… or they got some members but hardly any threads.
A confusing amount of nearly empty and pretty much useless subforums.
Perhaps groups should dissolve if they lack activity or don't get x amount of users within a week. Or maybe that would be discouraging. The concept is great, it's just easily spammed
An automatic deletion, a fixed minimum users/posts would be indeed discouraging.
Maybe staff could manually remove completely dead groups every now and then?
The Groups concept does sound interesting in theory – it just doesn't work so great for the most.
I feel like the groups work perfect for the semi-private cheats group and the lgbt groups--there's no way to privatize a thread on accept-only basis without groups, and lgbt topics are always accepted, but might be trolled out of control outside of a tightly watched group. there's a LOT of potential
we might have to go through and discuss trimming certain groups that fit a criteria at some point, because it's overwhelming how many tiny useless ones there are
A confusing amount of nearly empty and pretty much useless subforums.