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The App for Community
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Make groups visible to full cluster #1023

Closed smoyte closed 5 months ago

kenatsun commented 5 months ago

Aren't they already visible? For example, the Zoning Ordinance Action Group (https://sunward.gather.coop/groups/465), managed by Touchstoners, is visible (and joinable) to me as a Sunwardian.

smoyte commented 5 months ago

@kenatsun good question! Currently only groups that involve your community are visible. The zoag group lists all three communities. I got a request to make all groups accessible (not joinable or editable, just readable) since it would help cross-community collaboration. It seemed to make sense to me and I couldn't see any downsides so going to try it out.

kenatsun commented 5 months ago

Only downside I can see is if for some reason the managers of a community A group didn't want anything about the group (even its existence?) to be visible to community B. Will this ever arise? I don't know, but I think I recall that there have been concerns about having data about members (or particular members) of a community be visible to other communities in the same cluster. (I don't recall how that has played out.) Maybe let 'visible' be the default, but give a setting to let that group's manager make it invisible?

smoyte commented 5 months ago

All users are already visible across the cluster, except for children. And children can't be group members currently.