wunder,

One of the first things I tried to do when setting up my first
groups.io group was to send mail to the moderators. Since
mygroup+owner worked, ...

That address sends to both mods and owners. See reply in GMF for details:
https://groups.io/g/GroupManagersForum/message/11014

Shal

One of the first things I tried to do when setting up my first groups.io group was to send mail to the moderators. Since mygroup+owner worked, I sent mail to mygroup+moderator, which didn’t work.

On Mon, Aug 13, 2018 at 06:20 AM, Peter Simpson wrote:

I saw that Mark often posts in this forum and assumed that it was the way to communicate with him.

You can reach him at support@groups.io. He is generally extremely responsive.
 
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Thanks both for your responses. Posting here seems to have been a newbie mistake on my part, I did so because I saw that Mark often posts in this forum and assumed that it was the way to communicate with him.

I'll pass on your feedback to the rest of the team.

Regards, Peter

I own a group with over four thousand pictures.  It would be a good feature to be able to search the title field in the photos section to be able to find related pics.  Without a search functionthere is basically no way of utilizing the wealth of knowledge stored in these photos. 

Thanks!

Peter Dubé

From the Home page of this group:
"A group to discuss the Groups.io service and how it can be improved during our beta period. The Groups.io bug and TODO list can be viewed on Trello. Please submit bug reports to support @ groups.io.

For general Groups.io questions, please see the groups Group Managers Forum and the Group_Help group. Note: these groups are volunteer-led and are not officially run by Groups.io."

Duane

That probably was because you are a moderator and/or creator of the poll so you are allowed to view the results. Regular members won't see that button. Ilene

I just created a new poll, selected the option that only moderators and the creators of the poll could view results and who responded.  Selected no other options.

After the poll was created, I noticed that the button to "view results" was there.

Excellent!!

Ask confirmation for delete topic.

Having been a groups.io group owner for about three years, I can say that there are absolutely zero politics involved in any way, shape, or form, and that there is zero chance that groups.io might harvest anyone's email address for any political, commercial, or other reason besides running the system. This is neutral, user-centered system that you can trust more than yahoo, Facebook, google, and others to stay out of your face (my opinion). No sub-plot here.
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Peter,
My 1st comment is - I don't see how this post is "a suggestion for a new feature or improvement to the service" which is what the beta forum is for. 
If you are seeking comment directly from groups.io, best to email support.  If you are seeking advice from other group owners, better to discuss in GMF, IMHO.
This issue was discussed at length here.
My take is - hosting your group on groups.io does not directly encourage or support indivisible in any way.  Your group's content is totally under your control within the terms of the TOS and your group will not see anything related to this other organization unless you post it.
If your group is already associated with indivisible, then you can obtain free upgrade offered by the owner of groups.io, Mark Fletcher.   That's it.  
Toby

Hi,

We need to migrate from Yahoo Groups and were just at the point of pushing the "Transfer" button (having paid for a subscription), when several of my colleagues noticed this on the Groups.io Purchase page:



I've copied some of their observations below, please can you let me know whether you understand their concerns and what can be done to allay them?

If I were to turn this into a request it would be that "Groups.io does not exploit its commercial platform to further a political agenda and that it would make a public policy statement to this effect".

Regards, Peter

Expressed concerns about support for indivisible

"The last thing we need is another partisan social media company. I’m not sure if this is a show stopper but it is a bit of a ‘red flag’ for me. We should have our eyes open about what we are going into here."

"I don’t know what indivisible is. If it’s a radical political or religious organization I’m going to be uneasy as well"

"Our group is non-political and I would hate for our members to become involved in or associated with any political cause simply by belonging to ASCOMTalk."

"If review of the TOS is unrevealing then I think that we need to get a formal response from Groups.io administration that members of our group will not be subjected to political messages from them or anyone else. Also that our members' contact information will not be harvested and sold, given away, shared, or used by them for any purpose whatsoever beyond the administration of their site. This includes making members' contact info available to other groups on the site."

Same situation here.  We're trying to collect travel information for an upcoming event.  Having the date default to today doesn't work.  Yes, I can change to a future date, but then as soon as I edit the line, it reverts back to today's date.  Perhaps a check box set by the table owner to either (a) default to today or (b) allow manual selection that does not revert to "today".  

On Sat, Aug 11, 2018 at 02:19 PM, Mark Fletcher wrote:

That is, if you had checked the Only Moderators Can Create New Hashtags, then your new setting should be messages with new tags are bounced.

Okay thanks, that makes sense. I guess I just haven't had anybody do that before. It's obvious from my inquiry that I prefer the new "strip hashtag" approach and appreciate you making this new option available to us.

Regards,
Bruce

On Sat, Aug 11, 2018 at 04:14 PM, Bruce Bowman wrote:

I suggest the default should be to strip rather than bounce. I don't know where his leaves those groups that require hashtags, though.

I agree with both sentences. I checked the group I moderate and changed the setting PDQ as soon as I read the changelog this morning.

I would be interested to know the rationale for this change, because whatever setting is now chosen it is still only Moderators who can create hashtags (as previously) and members cannot try to create them willy - nilly; whatever the setting they don't get away with it.

Chris

On Fri, Aug 10, 2018 at 12:28 PM, Mark Fletcher wrote:

Please send a message to support with a pointer to an example of where this happened.

Mark,

           I will do this the next time it occurs.   It seems to have settled down for me over the last several days.  I am also a moderator on that group and when it happens I immediately merge the threads.   But I know also when it occurs that I have not, even for a single second, been in the Subject line and have used the Reply button to generate the post I'm making.  That's what's peculiar.

           And, to refresh my memory, I should just e-mail support@groups.io?
 
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On Sat, Aug 11, 2018 at 12:23 AM, Mark Fletcher wrote:

NEW: Replaced the 'Only Moderators Can Create Hashtags' checkbox with a dropdown, allowing messages with new hashtags to be either bounced, or the new hashtags to be removed.

Mark -- When I checked this new setting in my group, I was surprised to find that the default is to bounce the messages. This strikes me as a little harsh. What was the previous behavior?

I suggest the default should be to strip rather than bounce. I don't know where his leaves those groups that require hashtags, though.

Thanks,
Bruce

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