dispense with the notion of "groups", except as a shortcut to adding friends to a bill.
I'm not really sure what purpose groups are serving, but really what I want is to be able to say, "add a bill to this group", and have it just open the same screen as it does when I add a bill to a friend, but with all the correct friends for that group already added...
Not sure why groups are managed as a completely separate thing from friends - seems like a group is just a subset of friends.
Charles
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While we do plan to revisit our groups concept and will be tuning how our groups and friendships interact (it’s definitely not correct in the current UI), the main difference between friends and groups is privacy. In a group, and bill added to the group can be seen by anyone in the group, regardless of if they are involved in the bill or not. This is nice if you have related bills that not everyone is involved in, but might want to see (I might not pay anything on the electrical bill, but it’s important to me that my apartment has electricity).
This also means anyone in the group may add, edit or delete bills for anyone else in the group and balances get shuffled in groups if you turn Simplified Debts on for the group.
The upshot of this is: only set up a group for a set of friends who all know and trust each other. We don’t currently have a method for having a “list of friends” to make a bill with in the normal system.
We’re planning on completely reworking groups because this is a common misconception about them (meaning it’s our fault), but they won’t be going away.
Marshall