Forum to Groups?!

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I agree with everyone here… groups are not forums! Plain and simple. What a gong show. Did you guys even test this? I honestly can’t imagine anyone giving their blessing to this idea. Anyone who is willing to give Wix the benefit of the doubt and take their word for it that the transfer of their data will goes as smoothly as they say, should take a look at my silly little history blog. The ‘UPDATES’ link at the top of page is the current forum, and the ‘NEW UPDATES’ is the Groups that we will be forced to migrate to. You will see how bad it truly is. Come on, Wix. I gave you a chance as the little guy in the hood years ago, you have to do better. Leave the forums alone! They’re fine the way they are.

Add: I really need to know if you guys will be keeping this forced migration to Groups before I spend all my time trying to customize it in my site (although Groups not very customizable). Time is valuable to me. If you guys change your mind later and decide to keep Forums available, then I will have wasted my time trying to deal with the crappy Groups. I also have links that point directly to forum posts which will have to be dealt with. This is a painful transition… you know that, right?

Add: The difference between Wix Groups and Forums have been discussed several times in the past. If we can please have a reasonable explanation as to why you are doing this, I’d really appreciate it. The Groups is so flawed that its hokey.

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Hey all,

Just chipping in here as I’m currently migrating Forums (VERY useful for my purposes of a cross course collaboration within an art college of up to 2000 students on at least 20 different courses) into Groups as I only have a small window of opportunity to do this.

So far, although it’s massively frustrating to lose the functionality that Forums offered, it’s looking relatively simple and the Groups layout seems to offer a ‘similar’ functionality.

I’ve currently got over 180 members from the Forum (did a trial run last academic year) so I’m not 100% sure of how they will transfer but the framework of changing the 15 Forums I set up into Groups seems to have been automatic.

I’m going to read through this thread properly and update you as I go.