Re-posting from my lemmy.wtf account, since outgoing federation from lemmy.sdf.org appears to be broken at the moment:

@necropola@lemmy.sdf.org said:

Of course I don't know for a fact that LFG actually checks subgroup 1 to figure out whether a squad's map is full, but it seemed pretty plausible.

Also, I didn't say that map full detection is in any way related to the squad size limit. The question is how does LFG determine whether a squad's map is full? Does it actually check the map of the squad's commander (squad might not have one) or does it check the map of the first player in subgroup 1 (which is what I think).

I have even seen squads to explicitly use subgroup 1 as a lobby/queue for players not in the commander's map (yet) which would be really bad, if LFG actually uses the first player of subgroup 1 to check whether the squad's map is full.