Seems if you try to enter a forum you aren’t a member of, you just bounce back to the main forum directory without a message.
Should we consider hiding the groups people aren’t a member of? We should also be cognizent that enthusiasts will be constantly asking why they can’t join the “medical mavericks” forum. Perhaps a dryer but more decriptiive name like “Medical Professionals Forum” would cut some of that.
We have a big task when it comes to groups and joining. Our needs go well outside the scope of these tools and how they can be configured.
We need the ability to openly join some groups, request to join some groups, and not allow even a request to join on other groups (membership based).
Right now, we have an all-or-nothing situation of “can request to join any group or not”.
For the closed alpha, it is allowed and we will test the process and feel of that. But by release, certain groups will be invite-only and membership gated.
For forums, if you tried to enter a forum that is behind a Membership Level, you are redirected to a page to upsell you on that. This isn’t working in Alpha as that page/system doesn’t exist and can’t exist while communities is hidden and secret. But it would be like the comparison checkout chart demo’d previously.