As many of you know, we've been merging and reinstating many groups.
While the most popular groups should be covered, some of you may have old favorite groups that haven't been reinstated yet.
[b][c=BF0000]I'd like to ask you what old Groups you'd like to see reinstated.[/c][/b]
And [b]also, if there are new topics[/b] that aren't yet covered by any existing Group, feel free to suggest too :)
[big]Topic > Category > Group 🎙️[/big]
We have recently restructured the way Groups work on Similar Worlds, to help reducing fragmentation (often times, there were +1000 groups on the same narrow topic) and help users finding more posts based on their interests (by us improving the Feeds, or users going directly to the category of their interest). We can, finally, soon start promoting and growing SW more. We did not want to promote a site that was so very disorganized and fragmented.
📺 [b]Category[/b] - Slightly broad topics and interests, within a specific topic Example: Entertainment & Music > [b]Music[/b] https://similarworlds.com/music
🎞️ [b]Group[/b] - Very specific single subject Example: Entertainment & Music > Music > [b]The Beatles[/b] https://similarworlds.com/music/beatles
[big]How can you find Groups 🔎[/big]
You can find all [u]Topics[/u] and [u]Categories[/u] by pressing the [Topics] menu in the SW header, or by accessing this page: https://similarworlds.com/topics
To find [u]Groups[/u], you can either use the Search or by accessing the [b]Associated Groups[/b] of a specific Category.
Example: Associated Groups under [u]Music[/u] https://similarworlds.com/music/groups
[big]Mute Groups 🔇[/big]
One of the most requested features by our Members is to be able to mute groups.
It wouldn't make sense for us to implement this feature, when there could be 1000's of groups of the same subject that users could post on. You may be muting several groups, but there could be many more that you may have missed.
However, with the Groups consolidated, it's much easier to block a specific subject that you aren't interested on. It is important that users post on the correct Category/Group, for this to work, and as respect to other users.
To Mute a Category, press this button in the Category page:
To Mute a Group, press the same button (worded "Mute/Report Group") in the Group page, and follow the same process.
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Thank you for your support and we hope you continue to stay with us.
We are constantly listening to your suggestions, so please keep giving them to us, as they are very important to the future of Similar Worlds.
Very kind regards, 🧡 - The SW Team
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Bring all the groups back. Having a bunch of different groups was never the problem. If you want to consolidate them under broader categories, just make them subgroups instead of eliminating them entirely. What this site really needs, and has needed since day one, is to make it so people's group posts don't automatically go to the main feed of the site for everyone to see. The way it does that now, anyone posting anything personal or niche is automatically exposed to ridicule because their post is thrown directly before an audience it wasn't meant for.
@piggo88 possibly we could use a post option to post without sending it through the everyone feed, have it only appear in the groups/circle feeds, not a bad idea. Although potentially bad for the community to report illegal content but it’s a minority of people who actually bother doing that tbh and they’d find it anyway.
I might also use that option for some stuff that I don’t need everyone to see straight away, it would be useful for some posts in my games. But I hope people wouldn’t overuse that and make the feed completely empty, the site works best when we are all one community
