A new update is available for DragonByte Social Groups by DragonByte Technologies.
DragonByte Social Groups 1.2.0
Update highlights
The second major update to Social Groups is here
There's one major feature I want to highlight; Sections. This is the most requested feature since the v1.1 update, and it allows social group owners to create what are effectively sub-forums inside their social groups.
Sections have access to most configuration options available to the social group, such as discussion sort order / whether posts count etc, with one major change; sections can be flagged as staff-only. Only group supervisors (and site staff) can access the sections and discussions within if this flag is enabled.
The entire Sections feature can be turned off via an off-switch in the XenForo Options, and how many sections can be created per social group/whether they can create nested sections can be controlled via user group permissions.
Other peripheral features related to Sections; Discussions can be moved between the social group root and sections. The importer from Truonglv's "Social Groups" add-on has been updated to support importing its forums as sections.
Another feature I'd like to highlight is the addition of an optional "Terms of Service" feature. If you create a new "Page" node and choose it in the relevant XenForo Options setting, any time users create a new social group or edit an existing social group, they will be asked to agree to the "Terms of Service" before they can press the "Save" button. The terms will be rendered in a scrollable area above the "Save" button.
This feature was added to cater to the use cases where social groups may require a different/additional legal notice when compared to the site-wide Terms of Service. The feature is disabled by default.
There are a lot of other smaller features and changes, please see the changelog for the full list.
Complete Change Log
Feature: Sections (#99)
Feature: New banner to indicate whether a post was made by a non-member of the social group (#124)
Feature: Ability to join Private groups that accept new members (#141)
Feature: Add widget showing group creation / joining limits (#143)
Feature: Optional "Terms of Service" page for group add/edit form in the front-end (#139)
Feature: Show a notice if group is invite-only (#134)
Feature: New permission: Join social group (#131)
Feature: Add "Your groups" to main "Social Groups" menu (#130)
Feature: Add "New social groups" to "What's new" (#126)
Change: Use member's join date as the moderation date (#146)
Change: "Can join group" check now also checks group bans (#141)
Change: "Social group memberships" counter in the profile view now includes owned groups (#133)
Change: Groups under moderation can no longer add content or invite members (#138)
Change: Member list is now sorted alphabetically, with supervisors listed first (#140)
Change: XFMG media list / media items are now only accessible to group members (#135)
Change: Social group owners and supervisors can always reply to discussions (#122)
Change: Social group owners and supervisors can always start discussions (#122)
Fix: Attachments in Public groups can now be viewed by everyone (#144)
Fix: Ensure we check "View group" permission everywhere it makes sense (#136)
Fix: Remove double "Awaiting approval" notice
Fix: Fix server error when deleting social groups with discussions
Fix: Fix a server error if Join Group or Reject Invite checks failed
Fix: Users with no permissions to access the social groups feature no longer see its search tabs (#127)
Fix: New users who are invited to a social group would not be able to see the invitation (#129)
Fix: Users with no permission to access social groups can no longer be invited (#132)
Fix: Fix server error on certain routes if XFMG integration was enabled (#128)
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DragonByte Social Groups 1.2.0
Update highlights
The second major update to Social Groups is here
There's one major feature I want to highlight; Sections. This is the most requested feature since the v1.1 update, and it allows social group owners to create what are effectively sub-forums inside their social groups.
Sections have access to most configuration options available to the social group, such as discussion sort order / whether posts count etc, with one major change; sections can be flagged as staff-only. Only group supervisors (and site staff) can access the sections and discussions within if this flag is enabled.
The entire Sections feature can be turned off via an off-switch in the XenForo Options, and how many sections can be created per social group/whether they can create nested sections can be controlled via user group permissions.
Other peripheral features related to Sections; Discussions can be moved between the social group root and sections. The importer from Truonglv's "Social Groups" add-on has been updated to support importing its forums as sections.
Another feature I'd like to highlight is the addition of an optional "Terms of Service" feature. If you create a new "Page" node and choose it in the relevant XenForo Options setting, any time users create a new social group or edit an existing social group, they will be asked to agree to the "Terms of Service" before they can press the "Save" button. The terms will be rendered in a scrollable area above the "Save" button.
This feature was added to cater to the use cases where social groups may require a different/additional legal notice when compared to the site-wide Terms of Service. The feature is disabled by default.
There are a lot of other smaller features and changes, please see the changelog for the full list.
Complete Change Log
Feature: Sections (#99)
Feature: New banner to indicate whether a post was made by a non-member of the social group (#124)
Feature: Ability to join Private groups that accept new members (#141)
Feature: Add widget showing group creation / joining limits (#143)
Feature: Optional "Terms of Service" page for group add/edit form in the front-end (#139)
Feature: Show a notice if group is invite-only (#134)
Feature: New permission: Join social group (#131)
Feature: Add "Your groups" to main "Social Groups" menu (#130)
Feature: Add "New social groups" to "What's new" (#126)
Change: Use member's join date as the moderation date (#146)
Change: "Can join group" check now also checks group bans (#141)
Change: "Social group memberships" counter in the profile view now includes owned groups (#133)
Change: Groups under moderation can no longer add content or invite members (#138)
Change: Member list is now sorted alphabetically, with supervisors listed first (#140)
Change: XFMG media list / media items are now only accessible to group members (#135)
Change: Social group owners and supervisors can always reply to discussions (#122)
Change: Social group owners and supervisors can always start discussions (#122)
Fix: Attachments in Public groups can now be viewed by everyone (#144)
Fix: Ensure we check "View group" permission everywhere it makes sense (#136)
Fix: Remove double "Awaiting approval" notice
Fix: Fix server error when deleting social groups with discussions
Fix: Fix a server error if Join Group or Reject Invite checks failed
Fix: Users with no permissions to access the social groups feature no longer see its search tabs (#127)
Fix: New users who are invited to a social group would not be able to see the invitation (#129)
Fix: Users with no permission to access social groups can no longer be invited (#132)
Fix: Fix server error on certain routes if XFMG integration was enabled (#128)
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