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I haven't had a good look at the social group discussion features in 3.8, would you say they completely make the socialforums mod obsolete?

Well, I guess not, the SocialForums mod is better than the vB group discussion feature in some ways. A fully functional forums still has more possibilities than the group discussion feature, like stickies, polls, integreation in 'new posts' function etc.

But it is not certain yet if the SocialForums mod does actually work with vB3.8, and a few weeks ago it seemed that it would be completely incompatible. Also, the developer of SocialForums also imply that he won't develop his mod any further back than. That has changed now though.

But I guess it's not a bad idea to switch to the official vB solution anyway, since you won't have to worry about compatibility with future vB versions. Also, the SocialForums mod has one major flaw IMO, and that is that it's not possible to create forums where the "users must join to view content" group option applies.