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Posting window
Just an observation. If one starts to post something and then changes their mind, the window should perhaps have a 'Cancel' button at the bottom next to 'Send' to take the user back.
Dano
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Re: A few questions
Will you still make it where we can set the default text option for repliesBrenda, you need to scroll down just below the Reply box to find the HTML/Markdown/Plain text switch. Personally I'd like to see it at the top of the Reply window, to the right of the HTML text style stuff, so it's easier to find. Dano
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A few questions
Hi Mark, A few questions that aren't bugs. 1. Is there any RSS support for this site? 2. Will you still make it where we can set the default text option for replies, or are we no longer going to get to choose a default, since you added Markdown? Is it just not done yet? 3. Will you consider allowing more customization of the Home Page down the line? (a question from a member of my group). By the way, THANK YOU for fixing the Home Page photo ratio issue. All of my owls are finally NOT stretched or squished! Brenda
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Mark, A couple questions, not sure if they are bugs. 1. When I was replying on the interface in Beta, the message number box at the top would not always work whenever I was taken to my reply (i.e. the last post in the group. 2. I thought you said that you had fixed the Reply feature so that it would allow you to return to the post you just replied to, but if you did, I don't see it, or it isn't working. Is it a bug, or is it still pending? Thanks, Brenda
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Re: The Biggest Deal Breaker -- Database
#suggestion
David wrote:>>Regardless, a large number of people who left Yahoo groups aren't going to come back, even if Groups.io was a perfect replica.<< Judy wrote:>>You don’t know that, people amaze me every day. LOL<< There is no "coming back" because they wouldn't be coming "back" to Yahoo, they would be moving "forward" to IO. And I guarantee you, that if IO gets a database feature, they will come. It's been the one major thing we've been unable to find in any other alternative to Yahoo Groups. Brenda
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Re: [owlperch] To Duane, Matthew, Shal & Tyger
Judy wrote:>>Mark, hopefully you understand you are human and you can make mistakes. I’m amazed at how well you are handling all of these I like this, I don’t like this messages. <<
Same here. I'm trying to encourage everyone from my huge Mods and Members group to be patient and tactful about how they comment to you, but you seem to handle all kinds of responses quite well. We really appreciate you, and all the work you are doing to help us. I hope you know that. :) Brenda
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Re: POLL: Change Archives to Messages?
Thank you!!!!! Brenda
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Re: [owlperch] To Duane, Matthew, Shal & Tyger
Matthew wrote:>>As long as you found and fixed the bug, it should be good. This is the sort of thing that the current Yahoo Groups team would never communicate with us on, and why we like hearing from you on things.<<
That's for sure. Some of those bugs hung around forever. waiting on the Yahoo team to fix them,. .and many are still there... Brenda
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Re: [owlperch] To Duane, Matthew, Shal & Tyger
Mark,
I'm not upset, I completely understand it was a bug. I'm just totally relieved that it wasn't something stupid that I did. Even though I'm married to a programmer, I'm still not super computer literate. No worries, just glad I wasn't losing my mind. I only do one group at a time, ever, anywhere, and I was in Owlperch. Nice to know that was true...that I really did see number 42 jump to 1087 or so. Brenda
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Re: The Biggest Deal Breaker -- Database
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David,
The option needs to be made available to group owners to make the WikiFor a public Wiki I can recommend PBworks. I've been using it to host YahooGroupedia for several years now and it has worked beautifully. It may be because the subject matter is so limited in scope (Yahoo Groups) but I've had very little trouble with defacement by spammers - mostly SEO crooks dropping links - and all handled with a simple reversion followed by restricting that user name. The fact that I'm able to get email notification of any edits is a key factor in keeping on top of any inappropriate changes. That said, I'm not suggesting that Groups.io groups shouldn't have an option to open the Wiki (or other features) to non-members. I can well imagine an intermediate access control setting that allows non-members to read the wiki but only members (or only moderators) to edit it. Or even allow non-members to edit the wiki so long as they have a Groups.io account (the latter is crucial so that a troublemaker can be banned). Completely anonymous writing would probably be a recipe for trouble. -- Shal
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Re: The Biggest Deal Breaker -- Database
#suggestion
Judy wrote:>>David, as I stated in my other note, we have a lot of members that know very
little about the computer and groups. What you are saying is probably great if everyone knows how to use Wordpress and Google sites, etc. It's also easy for any of us to say something is 'easy' to use because we know how to use it. << Couldn't have said it any better myself! Brenda
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Re: The Biggest Deal Breaker -- Database
#suggestion
Judy F.
I totally agree Brenda.
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Judy F. SW Florida - USA
-----Original Message-----
From: Feathered Leader [mailto:featheredleader@...] Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2015 2:08 AM To: beta@groups.io Subject: [beta] Re: The Biggest Deal Breaker -- Database #suggestions David wrote:>>However one need not fear using the Wiki feature on Groups IO as it works just like Wordpress and Google Sites, both of which I find very easy to use for simple text and linked documents.<< Not me whatsoever. I own The Yahoo Crusade Blog on Wordpress, but I have almost no ability to handle it alone. I had to get editors and etc. I am not able to figure it out on my own, not even after buying a book to help me, called Wordpress For Dummies. If it weren't for my experts, I couldn't maintain it myself. David wrote:>>One can easily build content on a Word document or its equivalent and simply paste this preformated content including hyperlinked text and color from the Word document or other source right into the Wiki and it works just fine.<< Once again, I have no idea how to do that. And I don't have the kind of time I used to have in my life to explore how Wordpress and wiki works. But I know how to use a database, like many others, and that's what we need in order to be able to relocate many many Yahoo groups to IO. Brenda
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Re: The Biggest Deal Breaker -- Database
#suggestion
David wrote:>>However one need not fear using the Wiki feature on Groups IO as it works
just like Wordpress and Google Sites, both of which I find very easy to use for simple text and linked documents.<< Not me whatsoever. I own The Yahoo Crusade Blog on Wordpress, but I have almost no ability to handle it alone. I had to get editors and etc. I am not able to figure it out on my own, not even after buying a book to help me, called Wordpress For Dummies. If it weren't for my experts, I couldn't maintain it myself. David wrote:>>One can easily build content on a Word document or its equivalent and simply paste this preformated content including hyperlinked text and color from the Word document or other source right into the Wiki and it works just fine.<< Once again, I have no idea how to do that. And I don't have the kind of time I used to have in my life to explore how Wordpress and wiki works. But I know how to use a database, like many others, and that's what we need in order to be able to relocate many many Yahoo groups to IO. Brenda
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Bookmark URLS changed
Mark, I had to redo my group message bookmarks, is that because of what you did to change it from archives to messages? No worries, just wanted to make sure I didn't do something dumb to mess them up. Thanks Brenda
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Re: Suggestion for files settings
Laurence,
This would have to be at the option of the recipient, as people mightAgreed. See the last paragraph here: https://groups.io/org/groupsio/beta/message/347 -- Shal
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Re: Suggestion for files settings
Judy F.
OK Shal, I'm with you now! Sometimes it takes a while. Is it possible to
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get Denial added? Thanks to both you and Trish for your help. Judy F. SW Florida - USA
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From: Shal Farley [mailto:shal@...] Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2015 1:38 AM To: beta@groups.io Subject: RE: [beta] Re: Suggestion for files settings Judy F. On the group, I clicked the Setting button on the leftCorrect. When I scroll down it shows Moderated, Restricted, etc.Pointless. I then clicked Member Notices at the top and it shows a welcomeCorrect. But not just Welcome (when someone joins your group) but also tabs for: Pending Subscription (restricted groups only), Goodbye (someone leaves your group), and Banned (you ban someone). The tabs are clearly shown in Trish's screen shots (Message #1243 & #1314). "Welcome" is on the left of the row, "Banned" is on the right. I clicked Update Notices at the bottom and it looks like I getThat button saves the text you entered into the text entry box above the button (and below the row of tabs). I also clicked on all of the down arrowsI don't know what you mean by that. I'm lost. I don't see any place where I can pick when pended, whenI'm baffled that you're lost. You must be expecting to see something different and not recognizing what's there. -- Shal
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Re: Suggestion for files settings
Judy F.
On the group, I clicked the Setting button on the leftCorrect. When I scroll down it shows Moderated, Restricted, etc.Pointless. I then clicked Member Notices at the top and it shows a welcome messageCorrect. But not just Welcome (when someone joins your group) but also tabs for: Pending Subscription (restricted groups only), Goodbye (someone leaves your group), and Banned (you ban someone). The tabs are clearly shown in Trish's screen shots (Message #1243 & #1314). "Welcome" is on the left of the row, "Banned" is on the right. I clicked Update Notices at the bottom and it looks like I get basicallyThat button saves the text you entered into the text entry box above the button (and below the row of tabs). I also clicked on all of the down arrowsI don't know what you mean by that. I'm lost. I don't see any place where I can pick when pended, whenI'm baffled that you're lost. You must be expecting to see something different and not recognizing what's there. -- Shal
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Re: Lightweight "integrations" - link only
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Chris,
An interesting question - should there be some visual indication thatAbsolutely. That's why I suggested that the icon for such integrations could be the same sort of stylized page and arrow that signifies going "off-site" on Wikipedia. But maybe that alone is too subtle. -- Shal
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Re: Suggestion for files settings
Judy F.
Trish, I think I replied to you about this earlier today. We have messages that need to go out for various reasons to a specific person for a specific reason. This is not the weekly, monthly messages. We send one out when a member joins and is pended. That message asks for information to be returned. Once I approve a member, then another message goes out welcoming them. If I deny a pended request, another message goes out. All of these are scheduled under various categories Pending Denied Joined
These are shown in Yahoo groups Control Panel/Notifications.
Note: I just uploaded a file in the shaltest group and nowhere do I see where I can select a scheduled option such as Joined.
Judy F. SW Florida - USA
From: pnrfan@... [mailto:pnrfan@...]
Judy,
Are you talking about the files that go out to pending members or are you talking about approving pending members?
These are Member Notices, which are files that get sent out to: Welcome Pending Goodbye Banned
All can be modified to suit your group's info/needs.
Trish
On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 8:36 PM, J. Faulkner <jfaulkner44@...> wrote: Thanks Trish, but I don’t think we are talking about the same thing. If I am reading that page correctly, those settings are group settings (who can do what). That’s not what I am talking about.
When we have a member join the group, they are pended. Also at that time, a message is automatically sent to them under the Pended category requesting information. Another options is a letter goes out to welcome them when they are approved, another if they are denied, etc. These various messages do not go out to everyone nor do they go out weekly/monthly, etc. Just the one time to that particular individual.
I don’t see anything like that when I click on the Setting option.
Judy F. SW Florida - USA
From: pnrfan@... [mailto:pnrfan@...]
On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 9:53 PM, J. Faulkner <jfaulkner44@...> wrote: Thanks Trish. I don’t have a group set up so I can’t check it out. If it does what I mentioned below, then I’m happy.
Judy F. SW Florida - USA
From: pnrfan@... [mailto:pnrfan@...]
Judy,
What you need is in Settings > Member Notices.
Trish
On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 9:11 PM, J. Faulkner <jfaulkner44@...> wrote: Duane, if it doesn't also provide a way to send an automatic message to a specific email address, when they are pended, actually join, leave group, denied, etc. that doesn't help those of us that use that feature in Yahoo Groups quite extensively. Example: When someone joins the selling group, they are pended and an email is automatically, sent asking for required information and ask that it be returned within a certain amount of time. If we get it within that time and all of the information is there, I then approve them. If I don't get it in that amount of time, I deny the request to join.
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Re: Not getting copies of messages I sent to my group
On 1/26/2015 8:28 PM, David P. Dillard wrote:
Only if you use the Gmail Web interface. If you use a *real* email client - Thunderbird, for example (because that's what I use), they have a POP server - and if you use another email to get ggroup email at a different address, it gets delivered individually, including your own, the way any listserver software works. dg
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