Today there was the release of the new interface for the Google Groups, a community styled system with WYSIWYG functionality and file storage.

Web products for groups have traditionally focused on an email thread or message board format; they’ve been largely text based. Google Groups, however, now provides a richer forum for group collaboration with the following new features…

A quote from the official press release.

Pages
With the tools from Google Page Creator it is possible to create pages with html style, images and links without any knowledge of HTML.

File sharing
Share file with you group members, free 100MB storage for images and other (safe files)

Customizing
Give you group the style you like, choose from ready made color sheets or create your own one. Each group owner has full access about to mange messages and members.

Maybe something for the next version is to develop something that discussions are not posted anymore with the old interface. Check the new Webdigity Group and the related thread at the Webdigity website