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@Mark There nothing else coming out for 4.2??

It doesn’t change existing functionality at all. It’s a new section for your site, if you want to use it. 
The point of social groups (here called “clubs”) is that members can set them up themselves. They create their own community within your community, so to speak. 
So there also isn’t much to set up really. You can however define what club types members can create, what apps they can use and what moderator options the club owners will have. Everything else is done by your members when they create clubs. 

It doesn’t change existing functionality at all. It’s a new section for your site, if you want to use it. 
The point of social groups (here called “clubs”) is that members can set them up themselves. They create their own community within your community, so to speak. 
So there also isn’t much to set up really. You can however define what club types members can create, what apps they can use and what moderator options the club owners will have. Everything else is done by your members when they create clubs. 

The concept of these social groups has been around for ages, e.g. in vBulletin and people asked for a native IPS implementation for ages. IPS is just fulfilling that wish, not copying what this third party app “invented”. 
Personally, I have been waiting for a native social groups feature. I would hate if IPS would not implement such a feature just because something similar is available from a third party vendor already. That shouldn’t be their concern. 
 
It’s a core feature, so you don’t pay extra for it. What is available within the clubs (gallery, forums, blogs …) depends on whether you have these apps installed. 

The club owners can define whatever rules they want, but it would be up to them to check if they are met for an application. 

The concept of these social groups has been around for ages, e.g. in vBulletin and people asked for a native IPS implementation for ages. IPS is just fulfilling that wish, not copying what this third party app “invented”. 
Personally, I have been waiting for a native social groups feature. I would hate if IPS would not implement such a feature just because something similar is available from a third party vendor already. That shouldn’t be their concern. 
 
It’s a core feature, so you don’t pay extra for it. What is available within the clubs (gallery, forums, blogs …) depends on whether you have these apps installed. 

Can I move all members of group A to club A? As of now we have group functionality but it would be very nice to have some kind of cross moving of members from groups to club directly through ACP. - Thanks

The concept of these social groups has been around for ages, e.g. in vBulletin and people asked for a native IPS implementation for ages. IPS is just fulfilling that wish, not copying what this third party app “invented”. 
Personally, I have been waiting for a native social groups feature. I would hate if IPS would not implement such a feature just because something similar is available from a third party vendor already. That shouldn’t be their concern. 
 
It’s a core feature, so you don’t pay extra for it. What is available within the clubs (gallery, forums, blogs …) depends on whether you have these apps installed. 

The concept of these social groups has been around for ages, e.g. in vBulletin and people asked for a native IPS implementation for ages. IPS is just fulfilling that wish, not copying what this third party app “invented”. 
Personally, I have been waiting for a native social groups feature. I would hate if IPS would not implement such a feature just because something similar is available from a third party vendor already. That shouldn’t be their concern. 
 
It’s a core feature, so you don’t pay extra for it. What is available within the clubs (gallery, forums, blogs …) depends on whether you have these apps installed. 

The concept of these social groups has been around for ages, e.g. in vBulletin and people asked for a native IPS implementation for ages. IPS is just fulfilling that wish, not copying what this third party app “invented”. 
Personally, I have been waiting for a native social groups feature. I would hate if IPS would not implement such a feature just because something similar is available from a third party vendor already. That shouldn’t be their concern. 
 
It’s a core feature, so you don’t pay extra for it. What is available within the clubs (gallery, forums, blogs …) depends on whether you have these apps installed. 

The concept of these social groups has been around for ages, e.g. in vBulletin and people asked for a native IPS implementation for ages. IPS is just fulfilling that wish, not copying what this third party app “invented”. 
Personally, I have been waiting for a native social groups feature. I would hate if IPS would not implement such a feature just because something similar is available from a third party vendor already. That shouldn’t be their concern. 
 
It’s a core feature, so you don’t pay extra for it. What is available within the clubs (gallery, forums, blogs …) depends on whether you have these apps installed. 

A "premium" Club where you have to pay for access is an interesting idea  

Yes. 

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

As an idea for a future implementation, have three options...  Approve (of course), deny (must be invited), deny (may re-apply).  That would be the best of both options, where a user could be denied but told why/what they need to be able to get approved, so the user could try again, but also prevent abuse by stopping someone from constantly requesting to join.

You know, you could actually read the article and not just look at the pictures.  It explains it. 

Year, not years. Facebook rolled that out in 2016. 
Vanilla has it much longer, but I never liked their implementation. 

Year, not years. Facebook rolled that out in 2016. 
Vanilla has it much longer, but I never liked their implementation. 

You know, you could actually read the article and not just look at the pictures.  It explains it. 

You know, you could actually read the article and not just look at the pictures.  It explains it. 

You know, you could actually read the article and not just look at the pictures.  It explains it. 

You know, you could actually read the article and not just look at the pictures.  It explains it. 

You know, you could actually read the article and not just look at the pictures.  It explains it. 

You know, you could actually read the article and not just look at the pictures.  It explains it. 

You know, you could actually read the article and not just look at the pictures.  It explains it.