Re: question about Group filtering
I had previously (bp1.1.3) created something like the following function in my bp-custom.php to spit out the group status. Not sure how useful this is before the loop though. Maybe create a feature request in trac.
function the_group_type() {
echo get_group_type();
}
function get_group_type( $group = false ) {
global $groups_template;
if ( !$group )
$group =& $groups_template->group;
$type = $group->status;
return apply_filters( 'get_group_type', $type );
}