Thanks for the useful feedback given towards this feature idea so far! 👍
Q: When might this feature become available?
A: We would like to try to release this by/before the end of this 2022 year, if possible.
Otherwise, if we cannot, highly likely within the month of January 2023.
• We are taking note of your suggestions, and will be developing this feature in a way that should be suitable, fair, and useful to most users.
• There will be some minimum requirements for users to be qualified for group creation.
We expect that most very active and long-time users, should have the ability to create groups.
• There will be a limit as to how many groups can be created by a qualifying user.
VIP Membership will likely allow for a higher group creation limit.
• A user can lose the ability to create groups in the future, if they abuse this privilege, by creating inappropriate groups.
• There may likely be some minimum Moderation abilities for Group Owners, to start;
such as, the ability to Remove posts that are Inappropriate or Irrelevant to be placed in that particular group.
These moderation abilities will only extend as far as within the group the user owns.
• User created groups will actually be considered as "Sub-Groups", at least comparatively to the current Admin consolidated Groups.
• We may re-word our entire Categorization Hierarchy structure, in a way that may be more accurate and relevant at this time:
Current --> New (potentially)
Topic --> Category
Category --> Topic
Group --> Forum
Sub-Group --> Group