Hallo,
Same experience.
That's the reason why I now opend most of my subgroups so that the users can join wdirectly without further restrictions.
For me it is OK that way. The non-members can send a join request and if they are members of the main group I trust them if they are not they have to follow the subscription process of the main group.
Also I set every new member to moderated for the first message.? This should prevent to be intruded by spammers.
But yes, it would be nice if there where a better subscription processing for the subgroups. I would love to have the possibility to use a matrix to configure what member of what subgroup has what joinig right to what other subgroup.
That would make the process much more better. If then someone is member of a very well controlled subgroup you could configure higher rights to join other subgroups and so on...
Also a better working notification processing for the subscription process would be very helpfull.
At the moment I don't get any emails because the groups.io email server is blacklisted again :-(
Regards,
Isidro