Hi Jan!,

Thanks for sharing this with us. I've moved this topic to EasySocial's feature request page

This feature is interesting. Abit like EasySocial' Group but it 'group' the users based on custom fields
Anyway, you might want to add this into our voice page so that when we are compiling the features set for next major release in future, we can then come back to this again

Thanks and have a nice day!

Hi Sam,

Not really in groups but it can be interested also, what i am trying to describe is a global sub-network in a social network website, for example in an international website with people coming from many people a sub networking system which groups automatiquely members by country (or other custom field) and show in the stream only activities from this user network, people will get access to people of their sub network only.
We can imagine this feature for any multi-interests website.

here in voice the automatic groups based on custom field:
http://stackideas.com/voices/easysocial/item/948

Hi Jan!,

Ah i see. Thanks again for the sharing this great idea with us and thank for adding your idea to our voice page

@HMED Are you still on Easysocial? We are considering moving one of our projects to SocialEngine. Can you provide some insight of the pros and cons of ES vs SE?

Bright

Yes always on ES and hope forever, i really dont advice you using socialengine, i used it for two years and my frst website was simply droping trafic, its too heavy and hard to customize.

Joomla is a great and professional platform, even wordpress is not mature for such type of website (social networks), for me ES is the best but there is jomsocial which looks good too.

update: i just visited the socialengine demo and i can tell you that the interface of front and back end is the same since 5 years

Thanks for sharing this with us HMED, appreciate this very much. By the way, how does the support at SE fair? Is it good too?

For support you must take a support subscription to post support request, dont know if its the same thing today.
If Sideas support here is 10/10 at SE 5 or 6/10.

all that from my personal experience 5 years ago

@HMED Thank you for responding so quickly. WE are basically looking at SE for the groups/network feature. We are looking to build a platform where all activity takes place in separate groups. Similar to Groupsites.com, Wiggio.com and Groupspaces.com. I have only had access to the demo of SE and it seems that the groups aspect is much stronger then ES. As far as performance, we are currently on a VPS but would move to a dedicated server if necessary.

It seems that ES is moving in the direction of building stronger groups/networking systems, but realistically it would take months to evolve these systems. Of course, not everyone needs the features i am looking for. Perhaps an EasySocial Pro version would be the way to go? As far as support goes i have no illusions about that. Stackideas offers the best support. Period.

Bright

It should also be noted that a lot of the group features we like are not provided by the stock version of SE, but through a third party plugin (SocialEngineAddons)

Bright

You welcome, agree, we have many groups but all without any activity,
SE have lot of 3rd party apps but request more investement.

Maybe you can request specific development for groups from SI team or 3rd party dev !

good luck

Good ideas!

EasySocial Pro sounds good and as a matter of fact, we are investing on something

Hey, there Mark. ES pro would be a very interesting development. Can you share your current thoughts on this? Perhaps this requires a thread of its own?

Bright

We already have something kicked off internally but we will not be able to disclose them currently.

Hi,
i'm intersted in this plugin too.
It would be a nice feature.
Is there any plan about it ?

Thanks a lot.