Flickr Ideas May 26, 2005
Posted by Andy Roberts in : internet , trackback
(also posted to Flickr Ideas group)
Related Groups
I’d like to see a way of linking related groups together, so that when splinter groups are forked off from a main group, they can be kept track of.
Ideally, this would be done by having a Wiki page for each group, which the members can edit to add links to the subgroups and perhaps other information.
Discussions are great, but they are ephemeral. It would be nice to have somewhere linked to a group where persistent information and relationships can be accumulated.
The case I have in mind is the London group, which has now spawned several subgroups. The main group has 550 odd members and people have set up groups for London meetups, for Monthly topics, and now for several of the London Boroughs (districts)[1] ,[2] , [3]. I expect this kind of thing has already happened with large North American city groups, but I haven’t bothered to check.
Without some kind of mechanism for making the relationships between these groups explicit, and linking them together, I think there’s probably a danger that overlapping small and under-used groups could proliferate causing a dilution of the potential conversations and degradation of the flickr communities.
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