What is the significance of groups?

royburns

What is the significance of groups?
I feel it more like a classification, rather than a true sense of the group.
In my sense, the topics in the group is independent of the general topics.

frissdiegurke

Basic functionality:

category permissions
mentions (@group-name)

On this board the private groups are some sort of official classification (membership set by admins). The public groups also are some sort of classification but more off-topic, just for fun.

How groups are managed on another board is configurable and thus each admin can decide what he wants to have groups for.

royburns

@frissdiegurke
thanks your reply

Anand Kumar

Is it possible to assign someone to a group for certain period of time?

nhl.pl

Users can be automatically added to a group but you have to remove them manually or they can use Leave Group button. Any additional functionality may be added by a custom made plug-in.

Nisthar

@frissdiegurke It would have been nice if there is an option for group discussion in groups.