Club Suggestions

[ahc]

These are some common feature suggestions from my community regarding the clubs feature.  A lot of them are based around giving club owners more control over their own clubs and members. If there are any plugins/apps that can provide any of these functions, please point me in the right direction!

• Move "Edit this x" option from the drop-down menu to a button next to the tab title. 
  • The current placement for the edit option when a member wants to edit a specific club tab is not too user-friendly. Most would not know that they would have to click the club management menu just to make changes to one specific tab. An example of the new placement can be found on the calendar tab, which has a settings cog next to the tab title that is pretty useless since it has nothing to do with settings, which also confuses members.
• Add content creation permissions on the club level.
  • Currently, there is no way for a club owner to set who can create topics in a forum tab, who can submit images in a gallery tab, and so on and so forth. It's basically all one blanket permission for the entire club which we get many complaints about. Some want forum tabs for informational purposes, or galleries to showcase their own artwork as a portfolio, for example.
• Ability for Owners/leaders/mods to mention the club member group and add club mentions as a notification setting option. 
  • This is a popular feature request due to platforms like Discord that allow you to tag members based on user groups/roles. People prefer to be mentioned or "tagged" for important replies instead of following content and getting spammed with notifications for every reply or action performed.
• Allow club owners the ability to change the club type on the frontend. (Public/Open/Closed/Private/Read Only)
  • I'm not even sure why this doesn't exist already? Any other platform I've been apart of that had some kind of group system allowed owners to be able to change this freely. Currently, our members have to submit a support ticket for us to change it via the ACP and this is a need we would like to eliminate. It's common for owners to create a private group so that they can take the time to set it up before opening it up for invitations.
• Add membership tiers.
  • Some of them would love to use our clubs as Patreon/Ko-Fi alternatives, but are held back by there only being one membership fee option. Allowing them to create however many tiers they need personally would be great, but if that's not possible, having at least 3 tier options built-in would be a great compromise for now. Then some permissions to choose who can view which club tabs based on their membership level would round this out.
• Ability to hide the "Overview" tab.
  • Quite simply, some don't like it and would prefer to hide it, but this one isn't that important.  
  • Edit to clarify: With the ability to create custom pages added to clubs, they now prefer making custom pages as the new overview page without the activity feed, so that they can stylize it however they like with the use of tables and css.  The overview tab becomes redundant and some owners would like to just hide it if they've chosen to replace it with a custom page.

Edited July 6, 2021 by ahc