I experienced no damage to the forums. It just doesn't have the link from or to the social group. Nor does it have the option to create a group any more.

Yesterday I deinstalled this addon. Somehow it deleted a bunch of topics created by group members.

As stated a few posts above I furthermore had many problems with ppl not able to create their group forums.

Therefore I can only recommend not to use this addon!

akonze, please don't spread such a nonsense. This mod does not even a single function to delete a post. "Somehow" it is technically NOT possible.

Please check your Moderator logs who has deleted the posts.

As for your problem not be able to create a forum - check permissions.

Well today I decided that I should look at 3.8 and start the process of working out my upgrade plan.

Everything seems to be fairly simple, however the 3.8 implementation of the Social Group messaging system is utterly dire, half hearted and should have taken some lessons from this mod, so I need to work out what to do.

So the question is what do you lot plan to do?

Use the mod and the new messaging system side by side?
Remove the mod and only use the new messaging system (using the migration tool mentioned in this thread)?
Disable group messages and use this mod?
Something else?

Phalynx, do you intend to make any changes to this brilliant mod for 3.8?

This really depends on how many users want this. Currently I'm thinking about it.

Well I would certainly be up for it, I would suggest a slightly different approach though...

This mod is fantastic but it has one problem that is not of its own making. The problem is vbulletins half hearted attempts at social group discussions, you only have a basic forum (or "mini forum" as they call it) and users expect to have the "bells & whistles".

I imagine that over the next year VB are going to twiddle and tweak and eventually get to the point where their default offering is a "bells & whistles" forum within the social group, with stickies, attachments, polls, announcements and a proper postbit etc.

Considering this and the glacial and somewhat blinkered pace that VB are developing SG forums I believe that continuing with the idea of this mod creating actual forums will always cause problems with upgrades and compatibility between whatever VB offers.

So all this being said, I would suggest creating a mod that adds the missing functionality to the default vBulletin social group messaging system. This means that as an when VB do decide to do something useful with SG messaging the mod can easily be changed and we get the benefit of useful messaging features.

To be honest I'll be turning off the SG Board and use this mod simply because it benefits me a lot more (for particular reasons), creating a mod purely for the mini SG boards may be an idea but it's more beneficial (I feel) to have them directly on the main forum. One of the reasons for this, for me that is, is because for some SG's they're needing to have their own projects that only they will be able to see, this can't be done in a mini SG board.

I'm dedicated to this plug-in as it is essential to address missing vB functionality.

Are you considering bailing on the whole mod? Or whether its worth addressing SG messaging functionality?

This has been downloaded over 500 times on this site, I would suggest that makes it popular and wanted, when I installed it I believe I said it was the best vBulletin addon I had come across, I have literally hundreds of my own users using social forums, they would not use it (social groups) if it was not for the social forums part and the integration it offers.

I really do hope you consider making it work for 3.8 as I will also be waiting to upgrade depending on what happens with social forums.

I agree, my social group usage would drop significantly if this addon was dropped. I have 3.8 and my social forums are still working fine, is there some problem with this and 3.8 that I haven't seen yet?