Nice hack. Interesting too. About three years or so back, there was a hack here that did something similar. It allowed users to set up their own forum within a forum. It didn't las long as Jelsoft felt it was "subleasing" vBulletin.

I can't remember the author, but it seems like he was too far ahead of the times, coming up with social groups before the concept was mainstream.

At any rate, love this hack and the new direction forums in general are taking. Definitely HOTM material.

But cant you set the default display for each new forum to 0 so that it is hidden? If I do that for a top level forum it is hidden. Some hacks like the VBTube Pro do this so that the comments forums are hidden.

SocialForums has been nominated for Mod of the Month:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=177690

That is in fact a really good idea, which can be set via AdminCP/Settings/SocialForums/Visibility of social forums

I know that case, and it has been clearified with vBulletin in front of the release of this hack.

I wasn't suggesting there was any similar issues with this hack (which I voted for as MOTM). I just thought it is ironic that what that coder was tying to do then has become so mainstream now that we can apply a "social network" label to it.

Same here, I remember the old one and I vehemently supported it.

This is a fantastic idea and I appercaite you coding it!

Thanks again!

-Jason

Thank you for this. I just had a member ask about this ability yesterday. My question is, is there a way to set it so that only one social group can start a forum? I am worried about server issues if I allow all of the groups to start their own forum but one of the groups is a book discussion group so this would be a wonderful option for them. If this was asked somewhere else, I'm sorry. I did read the other pages but I've been reading so many different mods lately and at different points I can't remember what is what.

Thanks!

They can create the forum and after that set the minimum members required to f.e. 9999

Ahhhh, very smart. Thanks Phalynx! :up:

OK, I have another question. When trying to open a new forum I get invalid forum specified. In a previous post this was answered with:

If you get a "Invalid Forum Specified" you should check parent forum setting in AdminCP/Settings/SocialForums

I don't understand what the parent forum should be set as. Currently it says 1. What does it mean by parent forum? I don't want it on the main forum page. I hope that this makes sense.

Thanks!