I am getting very close to satisfied with the Drupal 5 version of this site. Folks are welcome to browse a recent snapshot at http://groupsbeta.drupal.org. Feel free to post and delete content. No emails will be generated.
Please post your bug reports in this thread. There are a couple of known minor glitches, like authenticated rss feeds, missing rss icons, and missing help text at top pf a few pages. ignup module has been dropped for now since it doesn't have a D5 branch.
One nice benefit for editors is that you may now post into any group without being a subscriber there.
Under the hood, there were lots of changes in organic groups module including revamped access control, Views powered node listings, and ability to move posts when deleting a group.
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ready to roll
groupsbeta is now running well. i'm going to upgrade this site sometime tomorrow afternoon (GMT -6). i'll post here when i am done. we should have a new site by new year. it will look almost identical to current site, but changes are dramatic underneath.
groupsbeta is looking real good
Moshe,
I tried finding anything wrong on groupsbeta.drupal.org, whether major or minor. I'm happy to report that I only found 3 minor things, and I believe they're that way by design in groupsbeta and that in the upgraded groups.drupal.org, they won't be an issue.
I noticed that at the bottom of http://groups.drupal.org, it states, "We have 236 active groups and 9152 group subscriptions. About this site".
However, it's missing on http://groupsbeta.drupal.org/. Perhaps this is by design?
I noticed that at the top right of http://groups.drupal.org, it has a "contact" tab in-between "recent" and "create tip".
However, it's missing on http://groupsbeta.drupal.org/. Perhaps this is by design?
When I visit my Austin group at http://groupsbeta.drupal.org/austin, I noticed that at the top right it has several ways to creat content (e.g., "create poll"). Well, it has two additional ones, "Create cckevent" and "Create Page", that are not present at http://groups.drupal.org/austin. Perhaps this is by design?
Moshe, CONGRATS on an incredible site!!! Thank you for your dedication and hard work. The Drupal community greatly appreciates it, and since you rolled it out, I knew groups.drupal.org was going to be a major hit. 236 groups, 9152 subscriptions...and counting. YOU ROCK!
Walt Esquivel, MBA; MA; President, Wellness Corps; Captain, USMC (Veteran)
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Walt Esquivel, MBA; MA; President, Wellness Corps; Captain, USMC (Veteran)
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