*Important Update about Groups in the Hub*
What is happening:
As the Hub is continually evolving, we are evolving with it to suit the needs of the community as best we can. As a response to your feedback, we've decided to un-archive 4 groups:
- @Nonprofit Success Pack
- @Education Data Architecture
- @System Administrators
- @Ireland and United Kingdom
These are not new groups. These are existing groups that had been archived and the contents from which were remapped to Topics in April during the launch of #Hub 2.0. If you had been a member of these groups before April, you will remain as members. If you left the group, you will need to join it again.
Why we are doing this:
In our transition to Lightning back in April, our vision was to use topics primarily to organize content in the community and to facilitate conversation. We archived groups and remapped that content to related topics. However, there are certain limitations to topics and topic functionality (like a daily emailed digest), and given your feedback, we feel like bringing back some groups would benefit community engagement.
Overall, topics are not a replacement for groups, but rather will be here to supplement groups, help curate your feed to be relevant to you, and surface content on topic landing pages.
What's next?
To make sure you feel engaged in the Hub we are actively working on developing a custom Topic weekly digest feature based on your feedback. We expect to deliver this to you in the next month or so, but a specific release date has not yet been determined.
What about topics?
For now, topic landing pages will remain as-is. Topics are still a valuable part of Hub 2.0, as a way to organize content and personalize your feed. They will continue to serve as a place for you to find articles, conversations, discussions and content.
Thanks for your flexibility and continued #Hub Feedback! Let us know what questions you have :)
@Alicia Schmidt @Anne Young @Kim Koloff Trivedi @Judi Sohn @Jace Bryan @Cori O'Brien
