Group threads are in 3.8. imo social forums are far, far better. Great mod.

There is no possibility for the user to delete a forum.

Almost. Here the group discussions are directly integrated into the forum, with 3.8 you will have discussions like the Blog.

I know from Phalynx that the mod will possibly not being ported into 3.8. The current version of the mod can't be installed on a 3.8 forum anyway.

I'm aware that this mod is better in some ways than the new group discussion feature in 3.8, but nevertheless vB 3.8 does include some social group features which are bloody needed like the ability to transfer groups from one member to another.

So for those who decide to switch, there is something like a converter needed, and I actually hired a freelancer to get it coded. I'll keep you updated about it, and will probably post it here at vB.org as a mod when it's finished.

I hope you have his permission...

Say it ain't so! It'll take until vb4.0 for them to copy the idea properly.

He does not need my permission for this as there are now changes in my code. Also, I would support such a tool. Based on this I would love to see a converter vB3.8 -> SocialForums.

Eeek. I can't be sure, but I upgraded to 3.8.0 and social groups are now completely broken - no discussion capability at all.

Installed! Looking good so far but ...

1. The display options (Sorted by, Sort order, From the, Show Threads) at the top of the thread listings doesn't work. Clicking the "Show Threads" button will return error page "Invalid Action Specified" in IE6 and "You did not select any valid threads" in Firefox 3
2. It would be nice if the thread list appear in the social group page as well ...

vB 3.7.3 PL1 btw ..

I have to say I shan't be upgrading to 3.8 because of Social Forums not working. vB's new system, whilst an improvement on what went before, still leaves Social Group discussions isolated just like the blogs...if like me you have a site where everyone uses Today's Posts/New Posts, then nobody EVER sees these things. My site's last blog post was in August, for example.

To be honest I'm starting to regret using all the blogs and social networking stuff, it's ill thought out and cobbled together very badly, and now they are having to change it all round again which breaks all the custom fixes people put in to make it work properly - such as this excellent mod!

The *only* way forward for Jelsoft is to have social group discussion posts and blog entries/comments mixed into getdaily and getnew searches, with an additional column to show what each result is..."Forum Post", "Blog Post", "Social Group Post" etc. That's the ONLY way it will ever work properly. But that's not really for this thread.

And with that, I successfully killed yet another thread.

It's a new service I offer.

Have YOU got a thread that's bubbling along nicely that you would like stopped in its tracks? Then drop me a line....I'll post to it, and I guarantee it won't get any more replies, ever!