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I've done some research on this question, posted it here without any feedback, and have left messages for OG owner (amitaibu) without any response, so hopefully I can solicit useful feedback here.

I'm building a story telling platform that combines passions for genealogy, family photography, and social media, and brings them to a whole new and integrated level of telling stories about your ancestors, and celebrating the life of an individual who has just passed away. I'm building this on Drupal with Organic Groups as the main organizing construct. Every Album - whether it's a family tree, a single individual, or even a photo album - is instantiated as an OG. I'm writing about it and will launch it at www.greatalbum.net.

Right now, I'm building the prototype on D7+OG because it's stable and it's essential that any piece of content (family/individual/event/place/story/media/etc.) be allowed to exist in more than Album. The goal is to launch the prototype in April, and then launch the production v1 site in June or July. I'd love the public launch to be on D8+OG, but I'm not sure how realistic that is, since OG v8.x is currently 1.0-alpha2.

So, my questions are:

  1. Am I correct to understand that Group module does not allow content to exist in more than one group at a time, and hence based on my requirement OG is the better choice?
  2. Should I assume that OG 8.x-1.0-alpha2 is not stable enough to use for a production site, and that I should stick with OG 7.x-2.10 on Drupal7 for now, and wait on the benefits of Drupal8 until OG matures at least to RC1?

Any guidance?

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  • Go through the module's issue queue and see if there are any outstanding deal braker issues for your use case.
    – No Sssweat
    Mar 28, 2019 at 14:20
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    @NoSssweat an issue queue of a module's alfa release? I'd expect quit a few issues then, no?
    – Pierre.Vriens
    Mar 29, 2019 at 16:19
  • @Pierre.Vriens flag module is in alpha, and I am using it cause there are no deal breakers for me :)
    – No Sssweat
    Mar 29, 2019 at 17:02

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... Am I correct to understand that Group module does not allow content to exist in more than one group at a time ...

Yes that is correct, but you seem to not take into consideration that the Group module has the notion of Group Types, and when you create "a" Group, you have to specify which its Group type is (compare to creating nodes, which you can only do if you first specify the content type for that node).

Moreover, a user can:

  • have multiple levels of access (none, read, update) to some group (outsider, member, etc).
  • be member of multiple Groups.

... and hence based on my requirement OG is the better choice?

That's a matter of preference (opinion based), e.g. if you prefer to go for D8, at this time, IMO, the Group module is way more stable ...

  1. Should I assume that OG 8.x-1.0-alpha2 is not stable enough to use for a production site, and that I should stick with OG 7.x-2.10 on Drupal7 for now, and wait on the benefits of Drupal8 until OG matures at least to RC1?

If you do decide to go for OG, then for the sake of stability, at this time, D7 seems to be the way to go.

Read more: What are the features of the Group module versus Organic Group module?

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  • Pierre - thanks for your helpful response. Your points about a user being able to have multiple access levels and belong to multiple groups is true for both modules. My biggest requirement, is an easy way to specify that a node belongs to one or more groups (to which the user belongs) when creating or editing the node. This is easy in OG, because it's a simple ER field in the content type. But it seems harder in the Group module. I have to go Group A, then create Node C, then go to Group B and select Node C to be associated with that group as well.
    – Erik Britt-Webb
    Apr 10, 2019 at 3:31

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