Nigel Moore

We've built it internally for ourselves and have it kinda working. Our only challenge is that the way we are doing it (as @JP TTT mentions above) causes infrastructure resource issues due to the long polling that happens on such regular intervals, especially with people who have lots of unread notifications. (using JS to fetch the member notifications endpoint (/api/core/members/{id}/notifications) and extract the unread count from the fetched result and set it with setAppBadge PWAs function) We'd LOVE to see this functionality rolled out natively as IMHO, Badge Counts / Notifications are one of the primary and best benefits of PWA Apps 🤓 (Especially now that Apple has finally come to the party recently - it's made companies like Basecamp go all-in on PWA) It would very likely be one of the highest ROI features for Community Engagement available. Hopefully it's on the short term roadmap to really complete / round out the PWA capabilities of IPB.

Thanks @Jim M - this one definitely caused us some embarrassment. Is there any ETA on when the fix might happen, considering the serious nature of the issue?

Ok, thanks for the reply anyway.

@Marc Stridgen - is Clubs Search something that's on the roadmap? Like @Lucas Thompson, we also have many, many pages of Clubs and would love an easier way for our members to find ones relevant to them without clicking through all the pages. (filtering isn't anywhere near as good as search from a UI perspective, especially in cases like ours where people know exactly the word they're looking for)

Great post @Joel R and you've confirmed everything we were thinking / planning - much appreciated 🙏 Agreed and at this stage, our plan is to change all those OPEN clubs to PRIVATE and our Dev team is scoping up an Auto-Approve process, likely using MariaDB triggers with some filtering in place so members can immediately join the club without having to wait for approval. Yes, we definitely won't be doing that - the dev team tested on Friday changing a club from OPEN to PRIVATE and confirmed that this option stays as "Club members can view and participate" so we're all good there 🙃 Thanks for the warning. Thanks and yup, we've already got this turned ON so that all the Clubs a member has joined show up down the bottom of their main forum page. It's a great feature 🙂 GREAT IDEA - we'll do that ASAP as soon as we change all the Club types. Thanks for the suggestion! Another great idea, we'll have a think about best categories, but even something simple for now as a TYPE one that includes "Vendor User Group" and "Accountability Group" will be a great option to add. We could go deeper into sub-industry classifications as we grow the number of User Groups. Thanks again for the suggestion! We actually also have about 300 x PRIVATE Clubs that are used for small accountability groups (we have matched about 1500 of our members into small peer groups). These PRIVATE clubs definitely don't show up in any lists unless someone is Invited to them and they work great for that purpose. But they definitely wouldn't work for our "Vendor User Groups" feature. Thanks for all your input here @Joel R - much appreciated !!

Darn, ok - thanks for the reply - appreciate it 🙏 I think the best outcome here is for us to change all the groups to CLOSED and get our dev team to build a way (perhaps via a 60 second cron job) to auto-approve any requests directly via direct DB calls as they happen. (understand this wouldn't be supported) Thanks for offering an alternative, however with 100's of existing clubs and the way we've designed and positioned the Clubs (we call them Mini-Tribes as part of our "Tech Tribe" company branding), this would be quite a drastic change. Clubs have a bunch of additional advantages with all the other Features that can be turned on in individual ones.

Sorry for all the back and forth questions @Randy Calvert @teraßyte & @Marc Stridgen And, thanks for all your help so far. Here's some deeper context for what we're trying to achieve that might hopefully shed some more light on the situation (and maybe help us find a potential solution): We have a very busy main forum and last year we noticed that there was a LOT of chatter in our main forums around specific products / vendors in our Industry. There are about 800 different products / vendors that serve our industry and conversations around these "product / vendor" were filling up the Latest Activity feeds of members for products that they weren't interested in. So, we decided to try and find a solution to allow our members to essentially "opt-in" to products / vendors that they were interested in seeing conversations / threads about. To do that, one of our (ex) team members started creating Clubs with the following naming convention: "The <Product Name> User Group" E.g. "The Microsoft User Group", "The Kaseya User Group" etc. Our whole goal for setting up these "User Group" Clubs like this was so that if a member was interested in say Microsoft content or Kaseya content, then they could click the JOIN button for that specific Club and immediately from that point onwards, posts / threads from inside that club would start showing up in their Latest Activity view. (without them needing to be approved by an Admin as there is no need to stop people from joining those clubs immediately) For people that haven't joined the Club, no posts from inside that club will show up in their Latest Activity Feed (ever). Up until last week, we thought this system was working as originally intended. (I personally don't use the Latest Activity view myself as I use my own Custom Streams, so I didn't know that content from Clubs I wasn't in was showing in my Latest Activity Feed) However, last week we had a member report to us that they have been seeing posts in their Latest Activity feed from within clubs that they hadn't joined. They originally thought it was intended behavior so hadn't reported to us before, but were wondering why it was happening. Since then, a bunch of other members have joined in saying they are seeing it as well and so we started investigating and realized that it doesn't appear that we've set it up in the way we originally thought it would work. (I suspect the ex team member might not have tested it properly when all the first Clubs were rolled out and our members have just "put up with it" since then until recently when some of the clubs started getting quite promotional) So, our question here is, is there a way to have Clubs that have the following attributes: 1. They can be seen in the Club Listing by anyone who clicks on it 2. Any member can click the JOIN button and immediately be joined to the club (without requiring a manual approval process - we have 100's of clubs and 10,000+ members) 3. If a member is NOT joined to a Club, none of the posts from within that club will show in their Latest Activity feed 4. If a member DOES join a Club, from that moment onwards all posts from within that club will show in their Latest Activity feed Any help is much appreciated 🙏

Im sorry, im really missing something, I don't see the "Club filter", I already disable all 3rd party applications, and still dont see that setting

I'm in the ACP and I don't see that "Club Filter" settings -Allan

Where do I see this settings? The "Club Filter" ?

They are all Open -Allan

To give more context, members go to the "Latest Activity" view, and they say that they can see other clubs activities even though they are not part of the club. Where trying to figure out on how we can solve this issue. -Allan

Hi, we have this issue wherein, we have members reported to us that they can see other clubs activities even though they are not part of that club/group. Is there a work around on this? We need to make sure that members/users don't see any activities of clubs that they are not belong or part of the club. -Allan

Ok, gotcha - thanks again for the reply @teraßyte - much appreciated. IP Board Admins, can you please confirm this and move this ticket to the Feedback / Feature Request Forum, please?

Thanks for the reply @teraßyte however we're not talking about the anonymous poster being able to react to posts, we're talking about normal everyday users being able to react to an anonymous post. I.e. if an anonymous poster post a post or reply, we are looking for our normal public (non-anonymous) users to have the ability to be able to react to that post or reply. That shouldn't give away the identity of the anonymous poster, would it? (I'm assuming the original anonymous poster wouldn't get reputation points if someone did react since the post is anonymous)