I know I've gone on about this before, but this whole "You can only be in seven groups" thing is really starting to frustrate me. On the face of of, it seems like groups should be a great way to build up little sub-communities within Glitch, populated by people with common interests or goals. But the current implementation is fundamentally broken. Most of the groups just never get the chance to get going. As soon as someone is in seven groups, the effort involved in checking out any other group is just way too hard - so hard, that I'm sure many people never bother looking at potentially interesting groups simply because the whole thing is just way too much hassle.
Just to check out a new group, I have to:
1) Actively quit a group I'm already a member of.
2) Join the new group
3) Decide if I want to stay
Then, if I want to stay, I now miss out on anything that happens in the group I had to quit. If I decide it's not worth it, I then have to:
4) Quit the new group
5) Rejoin the group I originally quit.
That's way harder than it ought to be, and easily enough to put me off. The consequence is that I hardly ever bother looking at groups any more.
I know there's a 'workaround' - once you've reached your limit, you can get people to invite you to extra groups, but that just makes things even worse. Putting aside the problem that you first have to find somebody who is a member (nigh on impossible), it just exacerbates the problem. Suppose I'm in seven groups, and then get invited to three more. I'm now in ten groups. Then, I spot a new group called (say), "Really interesting group" and I want to check it out. Now I have to quit *four* groups before I'm allowed to join "Really interesting group". That's ridiculous. And then, if it turns out to be pretty dull in the end, and I decide I'm not interested after all, I can only rejoin one of my original four groups and have to actively seek out people to re-invite me to the other three.
So, we have a handful of groups that gain a critical mass and thrive, and then a huge barrier to entry for any new group that comes along. No wonder so many wither and die with only one or two members.
I know staff have said that groups will undergo a major overhaul at some point, but I don't know if that's something that's actively under way, or if it's just a statement of intent. In the meantime, I don't really see the point of them any more.