xenForo Social Groups

Yep, Rigel from xenForo.com created a Social Groups add-on : http://xenforo.com/community/threads/social-groups-for-xenforo.26381/

What do you guys think?
I'm going to purchase it for my forum soon, I think the $40 price is reasonable for such an addon.

I've also done a little playing around on his test forum and most of the features which I need are already there.
If you want to test it out : http://xfaddons.com/index.php?cz-groups/

Upcoming Features and Known Bugs:

 

I didn't know it was a paid addon, wasn't there a free version around as well?
Maybe not by the same person but I swear I saw one back when I converted General Forums over.

 

I'm not sure although I have heard people talking about "circles" ( addon ) and comparing it to this addon. Don't ask me what it is because I have no clue,

 

I haven't really been impressed with the use of Groups on forums to be honest.

 

I didn't see one. Though Paul M importer does them as threads, unofficially, and there is some addon for putting people into circles that I haven't seen.

... for the time I have spent with this add-on I am starting to think myself that 40 is not reasonable But that is what I put it for so I'll stay with it.

 

Doesn't it include lifetime upgrades and new features?

 

I agree. They are appropriate in some cases but more and more, I think they take away from the community. I have a vb powered forum that focuses on my state's SKYWARN program, I can see groups being appropriate there to make individual county SKYWARN discussion areas which it actually gets used just for that. But I tend to stay away from features like that myself

I am in the SLOW progress of developing a forum software myself (AnotherBB) and social groups is something I cannot decide on adding as a default feature or not. Really to be honest, I am considering a FB-like PAGE feature more than groups