Bonkers Suggestion

Not conkers; bonkers. Here's why.

The discussion around Marc's idea for a group has taken place partly in the comments, and partly via GoogleGroup he set up. The Google Group is partly meant to provide automatic group-wide communication, and a bit of privacy.

As Ricky & others have suggested regarding private messaging, there's value in having that feature. But what if you took it an order of magnitude beyond that and set up semi-autonomous spaces like a GGroup, within the site? In other words, ISoWish Groups, where something like a bulletin board, IM or mail group could function without needing a second subscription to some other service.

What's so bonkers about it? Well, I suspect it's a huge increase in overhead for the site, a lot more work creating and managing. And it's bonkers to even contemplate it at the moment.

But let's say someone comes along that wants to expand the capacities of the site in a whole new direction. ISoWish groups would be at the top of my list.