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I haven't used Nestable Groups yet in any of my implementations, and am curious as to how well they scale, how well they work with the APIs, and, well, how they work generally :-)  So I'm curious to hear people's experience and recommendations concerning the feature.

Among my key areas I need to get educated:

• How well does the feature work with ACLs?
• Is a parent group simply a "group of groups" (i.e., doesn't have independent members, but is just a merger of its children) or would a contact need to be a member of both the parent and the child group?
• Does the feature scale well?  If not, what are its limitations?
• Where does the feature become visible in the UI?  Is there native UI for this, or do you need to code a bit of Smarty to get custom behavior?
• Does anyone have sample code that manipulates hierarchical relationships between groups?
• Does this work with Organic Groups and civicrm_og_sync at all, or are approaches at odds with each other?

I figure that where these features work, no need to reinvent either fire or the wheel.  And where, well, not so much, I need to use other solutions.