I don't know if I have the time/bandwidth to join a group, but it sounds like a super fun idea that I would love to participate in (if only I had the energy to do everything!)
Private will most likely not be possible, at least until WAY later down the line - renshuu is a small enough company that we (I, really) cannot manage the potential reports for content that come from private communications, which is why the private DMs were removed earlier this year.
I'd also be interested in this! There are language exchange apps, but I think that learning alongside other learners would be a really unique strength to renshuu. I don't personally use Discord, so there's not really anywhere else to find this sort of thing for me.
Something I'd like to see personally with this new feature (and even outside of this feature like on the Friends list), is an option for a team-based learning where everyone's contributions can affect. For example, a shared level bar for the group or other rewards, or some kind of system where you all can see each other's progress and, if you see someone struggling/lagging behind the group with a specific word, maybe the others in the group can see that and all pitch in to create mnemonics for them or discuss it. Perhaps something kind of like "baton passes", where if person 1 studies, and then person 2 studies, it increases the chain and awards person 2 at double XP, and then person 1 can study and recieve three times the XP, that way it motivates you to take advantage of someone else studying and make a chain reaction.
Anyway sorry for being long-winded, it's just some random rough ideas, hopefully something in there looks interesting and catches your eye or even makes you think of something totally different, and if not, that's ok too! Thanks for all your hard work, マイコー! renshuu truly is a masterpiece and has helped me so much!
This would be so awesome in multiple ways, people motivating each other while orienting themselves to a certain set of specific studies and so on.
Suggestion I'd have for it (it may be unnecessary and I'm just suggesting because I think it'd be cool):
Group Hanko Banners/Logos: let people set a hanko for their group and it'd be displayed by the side of the group title and description on the group search list - a problem it could occur: increasing bandwidth usage for people who use bandwidth limited data internet provider plans, possible solution to that: have compact/minimalist (no group hankos displayed) and detailed view for group search lists
Already got the forum integration done. Groups lists are now visible.
I'm having a bit of a hard time envisioning how to add lists. It'll have a similar interface to what you do when you add lists to a schedule. However, let's say you have two types of members:
1. "power" members (admin, helpers - anyone that has can make changes to the lists)
2. everyone else
For group #1, if they find some lists and add it, it's going to be added immediately to the group.
For #2, though, let's say they find a list they think should be added. I'm not sure the same interface should be available to them, but there should be a way for them to suggest a list (or lists) be added. I think that adding more buttons (or whatever) to the Community Lists page is not ideal, so it needs to be within the SG page.
Any ideas? There is not yet a way to embed lists into a forum post, for example, so they are unable to say "hey, I found this list, what do you think?" I guess that functionality may be the easiest way to do it, but looking into other suggestions.
At least as far as lists are concerned, group two seems to be the same as the general public to me. They can’t edit, but they can see the group’s work products.
Just mentioning a list in a forum seems like it should work, but in order to do that, we need to be able to link to lists.
Maybe a “share” button in the list would be a good way to do that.
For group #2 I think there should be a playlist called "saved for later or smthing else" where these lists can be stored for it to be approved by group#1 before going into the group.
Thanks for the replies. I think I have something set up (it turned out to be visually simpler than I expected), but of course, I'll make more changes once it becomes available for testers.
Update: the testing period will have two stages. Because I do not expect a HUGE number of people to be involved in the testing,
Stage 1: there will be a single study group for everyone to pile into, play around with the stuff, and generally try to break and/or improve things. It won't be themed, exactly.
Stage 2: a smaller group of 5-10 groups will be allowed to be made, with the intention that those groups will continue to exist once it leaves the testing period.
The adding/removing/approving panel will be extremely similar to schedules.
The 1st and 2nd tabs should be somewhat obvious. The third, "in review", will only appear for those with that level of access, and will let you easily toggle each suggested list (by someone else) as approved or rejected.
Then, on the "main" study group page, it'll look something like this:
