This topic came up so need some input.

Besides the social side of buddypress, what are other uses for groups if you take away the discussion part. A school can create groups (band, football, chess, etc.) as ‘container’ for the students participating but without discussions through forum, what’s the point?

[@modemlooper Moderator 11 years, 11 months ago]

You have status updates as well. Similar to facebook pages. Grouping based on topic.

[@slaffik Moderator 11 years, 11 months ago]

You can also look at groups like events (in some cases). So all joined members are attendees. Although there are several events-based plugins for BuddyPress…

[@mercime Participant 11 years, 11 months ago]

Groups can also have their own blogs (in subsites) which can be made private. So for each grade or each school organization, teacher/admin can create posts and students can have discussions via post comments. No forum, no problema.

[@intimez Participant 11 years, 11 months ago]

It just seems many functions can be somewhat duplicated without buddypress so eventually it’ll be a decision if full social features from buddypress is actually needed or not. Thanks for each of your response.