So one thing that is really holding our community back from switching over from Vanilla Forums is the idea or concepts of "Groups" for our Tribe. What do I mean by this?

We have content that we'd like certain groups to see but others not to see.

For an example: (Short list of groups and permissions: Members, Officers, Guild Masters)

• Non-Members: Can see all posts but can't post to the tribe.
• Members: Can see all member posts and be able to post to the tribe.
• Officers: Can post and only Officers(& Guild Masters) will be able to see these posts. (Unless flagged for all to see)
• Guild Masters: Can post and only Guild Masters can see these posts. (Unless flagged for all to see)

Anyway, this type of setup would really help a tiered community like ours and some others might not need as much control as we do but they might find it useful too.

I've talked to Mr. "Teamsnapzu" about this in the past and he didn't seem to think it was a horrible idea but... Anyway, I wanted to see what others thought about the idea and if there is any feedback or movement on bringing this to fruition?

A feature like this would pretty much kill a lot of Hosted Forums solutions out there.

I didn't know where to post this, but thought this might be the place to come.

Is it possible for someone to have a private Tribe? I've looked around and can't seem to find it.

One thought I had instead of having private tribes is to have Sub-Tribes or some better word than that. Maybe a Category.

Let's say I have a gaming community (I do LOL) and I want to have

• Officers [Group Read/Write, Global ---]
• Guild Masters [Group Read/Write, Global ---]
• World of Warcraft [Group Read/Write, Global Read]
• SW:TOR [Group Read/Write, Global Read]
• H1Z1 [Group Read/Write, Global Read]

etc... sub-tribes. Each of those tribes could have different permissions

This way, we could keep all of our Tribe content in-house and not have to create separate tribes for every single sub-group of our group.

We have a 512 slot Teamspeak server doing not much right now with only 38 users as it's the holidays. If you'd like to swing by and chat with us on Snapzu stuff, please feel free!

Rules: Please follow our "Core Values" while you are there -- Basically, don't be a dick http://exinferno.com/join You can read our CV's there.

• Please don't everyone try and talk at once.
• Don't horde the conversation, meaning, let other folks get in a word!
• Be kind and excellent to each other.
• Mean people will be kick/banned.

We'll see how this works, if it gets too crazy I'll have to pull it. I don't want to endanger our Members experience.

Our site: http://exinferno.com/

Our Teamspeak 3 info: exinferno.com

Edit: A 1920x1080 snapzu background I made because I couldn't find one anywhere. http://i.imgur.com/LsN84kQ.png

"Possible" Barrier to Adoption is what the title should have been... Sorry.

--Edit--

I've posted this elsewhere, but I wanted to try and see if I could get some traction on this thread while the flocks of Redditors are headed over here.

One of the big problems I've had with Snapzu, and why my community didn't adopt it for our "Forums", is the whole leveling bit. As a community leader, I'd have to go out and spend tons of time trying to level up just so I can start branding my "Snapzu" in order to get started using it. This really doesn't make a whole lot of sense IMHO.

You want Community Leaders to be able to instantly adopt and grow and build their group without having to dangle superficial carrots like "You can theme your Snapzu when you reach level 6!!". This to me is a cheap ploy to try and get folks hooked on a leveling system.

It may be fun and cute and great for some, but it's a huge barrier to entry for those of us that have communities that want to dive in and get started. But we can't because we have to "Level up".

http://exinferno.com/ <-- Our Community. I would love nothing more than to be able to migrate us to the Snapzu platform, but it sucks having to do so much work to even get started doing the work of branding your snapzu site.

sigh

Here's hoping that Snapzu takes a serious look at this and considers doing something to fix this problem.

Edit: I think it's awesome that people are upvoting and providing positive feedback about this post that is somewhat critical of Snapzu. Not really "Critical" but... Thanks Snapzu community!

So, with Snapzu, first and formost it looks really nice. I'm a big fan of the UI and everything so it has that going for it. The down side is however that it appears to be copying Reddit. Reddit is great, but I'd really rather see more of a merge of what Reddit is, with what you get from a classic forum tool.

I've tried to talk to them and hopefully I can get a response back soon.

Some initial turn-offs and automatic downers:

• I have to work to get access to tools. (Leveling up etc... ) Not great if you have a community already and need to migrate to a new set of tools
• Need to have Forums and Sub-Forums as well as areas for discussion. This is a great layout, as a starter, but we really need the ability to have focused conversations. Perhaps allow something along the lines of what is present on the front page for tribes?
• More staff moderation tools. I need to be able to delegate and setup permissions and have things like private Officer forums etc.
• More to come.