Question Private Group forums and Public group forums for JomSocial

This is an absolute MUST ... the connection between JomSocial and Kunena us almost usless without it. Private groups need private discussions and that should be maintained when the discussion are held on the forums. The internet is all about security and privacy these days for some groups. However, this cannot be achieved until Kunena builds contain private forums, not to mention that private topics should be a major part of any forum software anyway.

At this point I'm actually looking elsewhere for this problem to be solved, and that may be another forum ... unfortunitly ...

Umby

After busily installing AEC, profile types, kunena, gs kunena and jomsocial (supposed to all be integrated) - creating all the profile types, categories, groups - matching them up with forums, and testing it out, I realized a logged-in member is able to access a (in this case a HIGHLY private group that MUST have security) by clicking on "new discussion". Not only is the member able to read the discussion threads, but is able to post threads.

This renders the whole point of private groups useless. I hope there is a fix, but reading these posts, I am thinking there isn't? Please let me know if you find another solution. :S

I've quickly read through gs-kunena source code and it's not doing much.. I wouldn't call it JomSocial groups support as it's very basic code, not much more than creating categories for jomsocial groups. So I would call it a quick hack.

I would like to make this kind of feature, but unfortunately I do not have luxury of having too much spare time lately. Are there people who would like to pay from a feature like this?

YES! I imagine it would be far cheaper than me building additional websites for the purpose of making each forum entirely private and secure. That's what I am looking at now.

We're just a startup nonprofit - but we need to offer secure sites as part of our certification/ directory benefit. Without this we can't roll out programs. It's a major time and economic bottleneck for us - not just a "would be nice feature."

Everyone who is interested in this, please contact me on Skype or by email: [email protected]. NOT by PM, I'm not reading them every day or even every week.

Yes! I would pay for this feature.