After a lot of good feedback from the community, I've created a system that combines some of the functionality of forum folders and facebook groups. It's just the beginning of the system so there's more to add but the basic concept is that ANYONE with an account can create a topic.

For example

Title: "Meetups in California"

Description: "If you live in California USA and want to meetup to play board games you can post here!"

If you make that topic, then anyone can start making posts in it and it's essentially creating a mini community.

If you are looking at a topic and create a post, it'll automatically link to that topic.

If you are in the general forum section and create a post, you can click the 'link to topic' button and search for a topic you'd like to link to.

If you have already made a post in the past, you can click edit on it and then link to a topic to add it

For now, every topic is public and anyone can add posts to them. I'm considering making a feature that only lets the creator to add posts to them. If there's enough demand or a good reason for it, I'd be happy to add it in sooner.

Viewing Posts

The main forum will still function as usual as a way to have the most popular posts show up in one place, but now the forum header link is a dropdown menu to show All posts, New posts, Topics, and a few other ways to see information.

If you create a Topic that's popular enough I'll most likely add it as a link in that menu as well!

Future of Topics

Some of the ideas I have for the feature that I haven't completed are

Private topics where only the user who made a topic can post to it



Images to add to the topic (to personalize the look of them)

A section on your profile to show the topics you made

Adding topics to the search bar (not needed yet since there's only 8 to start). If more get added I'll absolutely make them searchable

If you have any other suggestions on how to improve topics, just let me know!

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