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We Need To Create A Way For Users To Make Group Accounts

To create a group account, the user goes to "Sign Up", the same way they would create a normal account. (We'll just need to create an option there for users to select "Group Account" vs "Personal Account").


After the user has confirmed their email (account creation) the group account exists.


To access it the user clicks on "sign in" and logs into the account like any other, to log into their own personal account. 


Needpedia then asks them to provide users with a way to create accounts for groups, but there's so many different ways to do this and so many features that can be incorporated that I've kinda been treating it like a can of worms. But now it's probably about time to open it, so let's begin.


To create a group account, (for now at least), the user goes to "Sign Up", the same way they would create a normal account. (We'll just need to create an option there for users to select "Group Account" vs "Personal Account").


Once they confirm their email the group account exists and can be logged into like any other account,


***Except for one big difference: once they log into a group account, they'll also need to log into their own personal account. This is so that everyone will be able to see which individuals did things on behalf of the group. Group accounts on Needpedia could end up covering some fairly large budgets or other things so accountability will be very very important. 


When someone posts while logged into a group account, both the group and personal account names should be listed, in that order. Please also make it so these can be clicked on to take users to the account they clicked on. (IE: click on the group account name to be taken to the group account page). By the way normal user accounts aren't doing that yet, so please take a minute to make all times a personal account is listed link other users to their account. 


It would also be great to have a time stamp on user comments. Presently comments (and such) don't have time stamps. 


We'll need to make sure that if group accounts/content gets flagged that the flagging system can tell admins the name of the personal account, AND the group account. -Admins will also need the ability to destroy them, in case anything bad pops up. 


And finally we'll need a way for people to request being added to groups, or to leave. We already developed something kind of like that for "curated" wiki posts that worked really well so feel free to copy and paste code from that. -Those are on wiki pages whereas a group account is listed in the social media section, but we still need a way for devs to see who's part of a group and send them a request to join. If they want to leave a group they'll need a button somewhere to do that as well.

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