Hi Mark,
while on the subject of photos is there any plans for an option to have an email/announcement sent to our group when new photos are added?

im a newbie so sorry if this has already been discussed
kind regards
pamela 

Yes, Group Owners should be able to control the default setting for their groups, and all options should be available for them to choose among.


I have no need/desire to restrict subscribers/members from communicating privately.

If such an option existed and is chosen as a blanket prohibition, it should be stated (by un-editable default) in the Group’s description (Home).

If done on a Topic by Topic basis, it should be stated in the Message Footer of those Topics (instead of the choice of reply links).

Perhaps all Messages should state what the default reply is.

Mark,
It does now, it didn't then. For me anyway... :)
An alpha text search seems to work.  I have an album with files named "ThisParty01.jpg", "ThisParty02.jpg", etc.  Search for "0" returns no photos.
Also, a minor thing - when displaying the results, the breadcrumb link at the top says "Photo Search" and the link takes you back to the albums, but seems like the breadcrumbs should be:
<group> / Photo Albums / Photo Search

Thanks
Toby

Toby,

Doesn't work - as in can't put anything in the field. How do you manage to enter text in the field?

I've tested with both Chrome and MS Edge. What browser are you using? Can you still make this work?

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Gerald

Received from Charles M. Register at 10/21/2018 09:05 PM UTC:

Suggestion: Give group owners control over how subscriptions are processed

Specific Suggestion: Add a group configuration option that controls the "Apply for Membership" button. This could have the following options:

1. Make the button work as it does now (default);
2. Make the button not show at all on the group's main page;
3. Make the button a "mailto" link directed to the groupname+subscribe address;
4. Make the button a link to an owner-supplied URL.

Yes!... Tho I'd prefer that subscriptions via web simply be handled the same as via email ones are... with sub requests not appearing or owners being notified until the email address is confirmed.

Jim H

FYI, https://groups.io/static/help,top of the page.

Duane

Please define "doesn't work" - works for me:

To complicate matters, I'll mention that in one of my groups, someone applied for membership via the web, and was actually sent the group's welcome message while still appearing in the members list as NC for a significant period of time afterwards. My understanding is that "NC" means that the member is not yet in the group in the sense of receiving group materials, having access to group content, etc., so I don't think the welcome message should have gone out before the confirmation. (I've already emailed Mark offlist at support about this, although the situation has since been resolved since the member eventually did confirm.)

In my main group, which is a premium, I no longer have to deal at all with NC issues, since approving a membership in a premium group automatically confirms it. So I have no real dog in this race (my other, non-premium group is smaller and not very active). But there have always seemed to me to be significant problems in the membership approval/confirmation sequence. I posted about this long ago, before premium groups were allowed to confirm their own members. 
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J

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On Mon, Oct 22, 2018 at 07:39 AM, Brian Vogel wrote:

And that's generally an option on most forums with regard to private messaging,

Right. And some, as you know (even the god-awful Facebook!), provide even more granular controls (e.g., which types of individuals are allowed to PM you, etc.).
 
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J

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On Mon, Oct 22, 2018 at 07:43 AM, Brian Vogel wrote:

Which is what I said at the outset, and still think is the best idea.

And I totally agree with that.
 
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J

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On Thu, Oct 11, 2018 at 01:53 AM, Michael Pavan wrote:

Better yet either:
-allow Moderators to not be subject to the lock or moderation;

Which is what I said at the outset, and still think is the best idea.  Group Owners or Moderators should not be subject to any of the strictures that can be put on topics since they, themselves, are the ones putting them on.

I have, way more than once, locked a topic immediately prior to adding my reply.  I could see doing the same thing with putting a topic on moderated status and then posting my reply as a moderator/owner.
 
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Brian - Windows 10 Home, 64-Bit, Version 1809, Build 17763 
The terrible state of public education has paid huge dividends in ignorance.  Huge.  We now have a country that can be told blatant lies — easily checkable, blatant lies — and I’m not talking about the covert workings of the CIA. When we have a terrorist attack, on September 11, 2001 with 19 men — 15 of them are Saudis — and five minutes later the whole country thinks they’re from Iraq — how can you have faith in the public? This is an easily checkable fact. The whole country is like the O.J. Simpson jurors.

      ~ Fran Lebowitz in Ruminator Magazine interview with Susannah McNeely (Aug/Sept 2005)

On Sun, Oct 21, 2018 at 10:15 PM, J_Catlady wrote:

Would you also consider allowing individual members (in a group with directory viewable by subscribers) to opt out of the email feature, in case they prefer not to be contacted but don't want to make their profile invisible?

And that's generally an option on most forums with regard to private messaging, whether said private messaging comes via e-mail or an internal messaging system or, as is also often the case, both.  One forum on which I moderate sends e-mail messages indicating that a private message has been received, and with a copy of its contents, but all actual messaging occurs using the built-in messaging mechanism on the site.  That wouldn't make much sense here due to the Groups.io infrastructure.

All give the member the option as to whether or not they wish to be able to be privately messaged.  I'd think in this case all it would require is a "visibility switch" for the e-mail address/button where if the member elects to not receive private messages that just would not show for them.

I agree that this applies only to other regular group members.  Moderators and Owners must always be able to privately message anyone who's a member of a group.
 
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Brian - Windows 10 Home, 64-Bit, Version 1809, Build 17763 
The terrible state of public education has paid huge dividends in ignorance.  Huge.  We now have a country that can be told blatant lies — easily checkable, blatant lies — and I’m not talking about the covert workings of the CIA. When we have a terrorist attack, on September 11, 2001 with 19 men — 15 of them are Saudis — and five minutes later the whole country thinks they’re from Iraq — how can you have faith in the public? This is an easily checkable fact. The whole country is like the O.J. Simpson jurors.

      ~ Fran Lebowitz in Ruminator Magazine interview with Susannah McNeely (Aug/Sept 2005)

Mark,

It appears that the email link goes to a page identical to the "send message" page, complete with bcc's for "me" and "all moderators." I'm not sure the bcc to "all moderators" should be there when a subscriber (non-moderator) is sending the message.
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J

Messages are the sole opinion of the author, especially the fishy ones.
My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together. - Desmond Tutu

Mark -- I have two questions, both of which relate to how these overrides will interact with group emails.

1) Is there a way to override the reply-to setting for a topic during topic creation? If not, the footer links for those receiving Individual Emails will not comply with the override.
2) Are subsequent email replies that don't comply with the override put on moderation, rejected, or ????  If something isn't done along those lines then it seems to me that the override isn't really accomplishing its objective.

Thanks,
Bruce