Groups: Add Pages, change privacy settings and more

Groups are about to get a whole lot better. We rolled out a slew of improvements to the Groups feature.

First, groups creators and administrators will be able to add static pages to a group. Added pages will be featured prominently on the group's home page, which will make it easier to share knowledge or information with group members (or potential members).

Second, group creators and administrators will soon be able to change the privacy settings of an existing group. Today, privacy settings are locked and unchangeable when a group is created. You'll soon be able to change this at will. We've also redesigned the privacy settings to be a lot easier to use and understand.

Lastly, we're enhancing or fixing a slew of issues and flows within the Groups feature, including:

• Adding "Alphabetical" as a way to sort groups on the list of groups on a Ning Network
• Limiting group deletion priviledges only to group moderators, network admins and Network Creators
• New members of groups will no longer, by default, get notified when other people join their group
• Better warning message for members viewing invite-only groups
• Better warning message for members who've been suspended from a group