Product design question

How would you improve usage of Facebook Groups?

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What this question tests

Tests basic product sense for a community feature, picking a specific discovery or engagement lever rather than a generic list of ideas.

Clarify scope: default to increasing meaningful participation in Groups a user has already joined, not just join-rate growth.
Segment users: active group members who post or comment regularly, and passive members who joined but rarely engage.
Pick one pain point: passive members forget which groups they're in or lose track of relevant activity amid a busy main feed.
Propose a dedicated, chronological Groups activity digest, separate from the algorithmic main feed, highlighting a few relevant unread posts per group.
Address the trade-off: this must not become another ignored notification channel, so make it a pull-based destination a user checks, not a push interruption.
Define success: weekly active participation rate among previously passive group members, and Groups tab visit frequency.

Picks a specific, common cause of low engagement, activity getting lost outside the group itself, rather than a generic call to add more features.
Proposes a concrete, pull-based mechanism, avoiding notification fatigue while still surfacing relevant content.
Explicitly targets the passive-member segment, the highest-opportunity group for improvement.
Defines success with a specific behavioral shift, passive-to-active participation, not just raw time spent.

Proposing more push notifications, risking further fatigue rather than solving the actual discovery problem.
Measuring success by overall Groups usage without distinguishing whether previously passive members actually became more active.

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