Group membership simplified

I’ve made some changes to make group memberships simpler and easier to use.

1. I’ve removed the My Groups page. Joining and leaving groups is now done on the groups’ pages themselves using the “join this group” and “leave this group” buttons.

Bear in mind that if you’re an editor or administrator of a group and you leave it, you’ll lose that status if you rejoin. You’ll have to ask me or the group’s administrator to restore your old status.

2. You can no longer be a “private” member of a group. All the old private memberships have been deleted. If you were a private member of a group, you’re not a member of that group at all now. Not having a private/public status for membership simplifies things. All memberships are now public.

The Politics and Campaigns category has been rent asunder

I’ve split up the old Politics and Campaigns category into two separate categories: Politics and Campaigns. On reflection these two sets of groups don’t really cohabit very well. While many of the campaigns have a political element they are generally vehemently non-party-political.

Now we’ve got the new news pages up and running I expect readers will be more keen just to read the news from the categories that interest them, so separating these two sets of groups out makes even more sense.

I’ve added a helpful message to the bottom of the Campaigns category page (which remains at the original URL) to help people looking for politics groups find them on the new category page.