Mark

We've still got some great stuff to announce, but Clubs is definitely my favourite 4.2 feature - glad you like it too  

I'm sure we can look into that. 

Wow this is amazing.
Sorry if this has been asked already, but will there be an option to migrate from the Group Collaborations addon?
So excited about this new feature!!!!

Sometimes development isn't about creating something nobody has ever seen, but rather improving on existing concepts and providing a robust, built-in solution.

wow great adding ✌waiting for see how it work with social groups ?

Possible to ban a member from clubs that doesn't require invitations?

When a user is denied, they can't rejoin - they would have to be invited by a leader or moderator  

Of all the recent updates posted (as well as ones over the past couple of years, with me doing other things), this is the one that has me logging in to say YAY!
 
Could something simple be added, like a comment box that the user could fill out (optionally) when requesting to join a group?  Nothing fancy, just have some text with it that mentions some clubs may require it to be filled out when requesting membership.

Also, any option for preventing a user from constantly requesting to join a club when they keep getting denied, like maybe a 'cool down' period?

1) They apply to all blocks; club leaders cannot control the blocks shown.
2) No, it's a club-wide activity stream
3) Clubs have a FURL based on their name (e.g. /clubs/1-myclub/ etc.)
4) All clubs use the same verbiage
6) They appear in the club view and not in the applications themselves, but do appear in areas like activity streams, search, feed blocks etc. where content is collated.
7) No, not right now.

Charles is clearly The Glorious Leader.

I saw that.  But are you ... the Most Special Leader??  
 

I'm the leader for I'm the most special. 

Also, any chance you might implement a list view for clubs, or purely textual, vs more of the "card" format? I can think of certain implementations that could benefit from different ways of organizing the main club screen - being able to have club directories for example, based on a common denominator (educations forums may have clubs under each school, etc) - it might be easier to navigate the main club screen in those scenarios if each club group had a card or some primary header, and clubs under each grouping could be listed as links under that. Perhaps a template issue and could be done as a 3rd party skin, but alternate presentation styles out of the box might be a nice way to immediately extend implementation options.

Edit: This is realistically a game changer for my site - I can pretty much replace all of my forum categorization with clubs. However, it does seem that if you have lots and lots and lots of club (20-30+) it would be nice to have a way to group them together or otherwise organize such that the main club overview page doesn't get too unwieldy. Sorry if this sounds like a downer feature request vs excitement btw - it is very exciting!

How do I get an invite to the Most Special Club?? 

Yep, precisely.

Right, so there would be forum level moderators, and club level moderators. All forum level moderators are by default able to moderate any club, but club level moderators can only moderate within clubs they are moderators of, and admins can determine separate permission sets for forum level moderators and club level moderators, such that forum level moderators might be able to delete posts, but club level moderators can only hide posts, etc.

It's all moderator-permission based. So in my screenshot, I have permission to move the topic currently in a regular forum and permission to moderate the clubs I see. A regular member would be able to move topics between any clubs they moderate/lead, but not elsewhere.

This is innovation!

We'll post details on how to support this and the rest of the features as usual.  

Anything change in containers from 3rd-party apps is required to make it available?

AMAZING!! i cant wait for this  
 

What a superb implementation of social groups. Clearly a lot of thought has gone into this. You promised member engagement and you are delivering. Nice work IPS, it looks great!

I've some good news for you! Since forums within clubs are real forums, you can move topics between regular forums and club forums just like in any other case. You just need to be a member of the club, and you'll see your club forums in all the select boxes:

My staff members are currently very excited.

I have a lot of long running threads for essentially what are ad hoc clubs members have created - things like sports fantasy pools, etc. 
this will be a great way to organize all that.