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Discussions is Orgo’s built-in forum. Members write posts, comment, reply, react and attach files, either in one shared organization-wide feed or inside a specific group, role group or local center. Built for membership organizations that want conversation spaces tied to their own group structure: youth organizations, professional associations, alumni networks and advocacy groups. Replaces Facebook Groups and standalone forums such as Discourse. It is not a chat tool: posts and comments are asynchronous, and everything is scoped by the group structure you already maintain in Orgo. Discussions feed with the Start a post composer, sort control, the category panel and post cards showing reaction and comment counts

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Where a discussion lives

Every discussion is either organization-wide or attached to exactly one unit. Groups, role groups, local centers and organizational units are all units, so a discussion attaches to any of them the same way. Visibility follows group membership: you see a discussion if it has no group, or if its group is one of yours (your local center, groups you hold a role in, groups that include all members, and open-access local centers when that setting is on). Administrators are not exempt, so a tenant admin does not see posts in groups they have not joined. Events do not have discussions. Event conversations live in the event feed inside the event app.

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Writing a post

Select Start a post at the top of the feed, or the + button on mobile. Images, videos and files can be attached with the image, video and folder icons, or by dragging them onto the composer. One selection must stay under 1 GB in total.

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Reading and taking part

A single discussion showing its category and group chips, attached image, reaction count and comment count Reactions. Four reactions are available on a post or any comment: Like, Love, Celebrate and Informative. You hold one at a time. Hovering a reaction shows the first 20 people who used it, and selecting it opens the full list. Comments and replies. Comments appear oldest first. Every comment can be replied to, and replies can themselves be replied to, so threads nest as deep as the conversation goes. Long threads can be collapsed. Comments carry the same rich text, mentions and attachments as posts. Comment thread with several members replying, each comment offering Like and Reply, a nested reply under one of them, and a Write a comment box at the bottom Counts. The footer of a post shows its reactions and its comment count. Views are recorded too, as unique viewers with the author’s own visits excluded, and they are shown on the discussion cards in the dashboard rather than in the feed. Following. Creating a discussion or commenting on one follows it automatically. Subscribe and Subscribed on the discussion page turn following on and off by hand.

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Who can post where

Deleting a comment that already has visible replies keeps the thread: the comment’s text and attachments are cleared, and the replies stay.

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Finding things

The sort control offers newest, oldest, most commented and least commented, and the icon next to it switches between the card view and a compact list. Categories appear as a panel beside the feed on desktop and as tabs on mobile. Selecting a #tag under a post filters the feed to that tag. Feeds load more posts as you scroll.

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Notifications

Followers are notified when a new comment is added, the author of a comment is notified of replies to it, and mentioned members are notified of the mention. Whether each one also arrives by email depends on the member’s own settings and on the organization default Email Notifications: Discussions. See Notifications.

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Settings

Discussions module settings with the module toggle, Who Can Create Public Discussions, Enable Discussion Namespaces and Enable Profanity Check Settings and then Discussions. Changing these requires ADMIN_TENANT.

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Common questions

Set Who Can Create Public Discussions to an admin level. The feed becomes an announcement channel, while members keep posting in their groups and local centers. Comments stay open either way, unless the author disables them on a specific post.
Discussions attached to a group are visible only to that group’s members, and administrators get no exemption. Check which group the post is in, then check whether the member belongs to it. If the group checks out, have them look at Blocking Members: a member they blocked is hidden from them everywhere in the forum, and only they can see that list.
Yes, at any time. If the post is a comment with replies underneath, the text and attachments are removed and the thread structure stays so the replies still read.
Discussions are two-way and live in the app. The newsletter is a one-way email campaign. Use discussions for conversation, newsletters for announcements that must reach an inbox.