For local chapters/groups, use social groups or forums.

[Alan92RTTT]

By now everyone should have had time to play with the socialgroups feature and see if they think its a good or bad idea for use to support local groups and chapters.

I like some of the things the feature provides but its not as well intigrated into the rest of the forum as I'd like.

What do you think?

Wait for the poll.

[2fnloud]

I voted can we have both, however is there a way to get sent updates on a social group that you belong to? Kinda like how I get E-mails on new posts to the threads that I subscribed to and how the yahoo will send an e-mail when a message has been posted.

If those could happen, I fail to see why we would need the forum part.

[SkorpioLT]

ok I just joined and Im kinda lost here.. social groups?? IMO it was fine with the way they've been as part of the forum. The only nice addition would have been some public events calendar...

edit: wow just came across them... the first time I noticed them I thought it was just a part of the forum like it used to be

[i3igpete]

social groups were impossible to find, it's so much easier to see the events/regional button.

[Bob]

social groups were impossible to find, it's so much easier to see the events/regional button.

Same here.

[stealthee]

I set up the social group for 3spa and it wasn't difficult, but forums are much easier to use and have more options. I vote for forums.

[atarirx]

Same here. I like the social groups but they just don't seem to be generating much traffic. I'd rather just have one place to look for local stuff.

[stealthee]

Thinking about it some more, the social groups have their void they can fill, but I would like to have the chapters as forums, and let people create groups for odd ball things, like maybe other hobbies and the like.

[B-Man]

In the groups, it's not as obvious that there are new posts. To me, anyways.

[Turbo79]

Forums . . . maybe an old habit but I was used to them. I liked a Carolina forum rather than SE. As much as the FL activiites may have interested me, they were really not pertinent.

[SkorpioLT]

well after a couple days of playing around with it, I really have no preference to which one we have, as long as we have ONLY ONE. It could get confusing if both end up staying.

[Tiberius]

From an international standpoint I always thought the subforums on 3si were pretty much useless because there are already established interational forums out there. Linking those in here somehow would make more sense.
The German subforum on 3si was mostly used by military guys stationed in Germany.

[Alan92RTTT]

Does anyone have a list of the international forums?

[TheRedStealth]

Thinking about it some more, the social groups have their void they can fill, but I would like to have the chapters as forums, and let people create groups for odd ball things, like maybe other hobbies and the like.

this

is full of win

[Tiberius]

Does anyone have a list of the international forums?

The german Forum is WWW.gt-driver.de/forum
I have some others as bookmarks but i'm in the us right now and they are on my pc at home. I'll post a list here when i'm back home.

[B-Man]

Is there no edit in groups? or am I just that blind?

[Alan92RTTT]

I see edit in the upper right of the post

[x2percentmilk]

I like stealthees idea.

[B-Man]

I see edit in the upper right of the post

All I see is report

[Alan92RTTT]

the more I learn the less I like groups.

Unless their is a racial change in this poll expect to see me setting up chapter forums tomorrow.

[i3igpete]

racial hope for change!

but i do like how it's set up right now - there's no real need to have 40 forums, most of which only get posted to once a month. setting it up by region is fine - it's not like i'm going to have an aneurysm by seeing a mi3si guy's thread.

[Tiberius]

list of international forums:

Germany: http://www.gt-driver.de/forum
United Kingdom: http://www.gtouk.org.uk
France: http://www.3si-fr.net/forum
New Zealand: http://www.3000gtperformance.co.nz/forums
Canada: http://forum.canada3si.org/
Latvia: http://www.3000gt.lv/index.php/forums
Italy: http://3000gt.forumer.it/
Sweden: http://www.3000gt.se/forum/
Norway: http://www.3000gt.no/phpbb3/

Anybody know more?

[Unknownvr4]

I rather the forum style... Dont forget about louisiana3s (la3s). I pm'd you a while back about setting it up but i figured you were busy with other things

[stealthee]

In group forms YOU the user set it up.

[colt45 gto]

i had no idea that the UK section was there!
http://www.3sgto.org/showthread.php?255-Roll-Call!!!