Hello,

All of the groups on the site are private.
I would like to automatically approve users to a group as soon as they click join group.

Bypassing the 'Your application is awaiting approval from the group administrator' altogether.

Please explain how.
Thank You!
-Mike

Hi Micheal,

sorry, you cant do that. this is by design, every new members for private group must approval by group owner/admin.

here the link, maybe you can find someone to build 3rd party extension for this customization:
www.jomsocial.com/jomsocial-developers

Regards

How can I make it so that only group members can see activity inside of a group... even though the group is public.

you can make override for:
single.php, copy it from /components/com_community/templates/jomsocial/layouts/groups/ to /templates/[frontend template]/html/com_community/layouts/groups/
edit and changing it from

<?php if($isMember || $isSuperAdmin || $isAdmin) {$status->render();} ?>
<?php echo $streamHTML; ?>

<?php if($isMember || $isSuperAdmin || $isAdmin) {$status->render(); echo $streamHTML;} ?>