I just went in and unbanned 51 members who, as far as I could remember, had done no wrong. But it was hard to remember at this point which ones in the list had been banned for cause rather than banned so that I could have access more info on their histories. I am hoping for an update on this situation. Thanks!
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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

I just discovered, through a snafu in another group besides my own where I happen to be a moderator, that when someone has been banned, and they try to log in, they get a "you have been banned" banner. I thought that banned accounts simply don't see the "join this group" or "apply for membership in this group" button, and that they are not informed they've been banned.

I have been banning members up the wazoo simply because more can be seen of their past history that way. Usually, when someone leaves my group and does not answer the "good-bye, why did you leave" questionnaire, I immediately ban them only so that I can see their member notes, etc. I was under the distinct impression that THEY ARE NOT INFORMED they've been banned. But this changes everything. Unless this is fixed, I need to go back an unban tons of people.

Is it possible to fix this but changing it back to what it was (i.e., people are not informed they're banned from a group)? I think this is a very bad situation.
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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

I wish messages sent to the group without subject lines did get rejected, but they don't. If they contain hashtags, the hashtags are duplicated as a pointless subject line. Drives me mad.

Helen

I also prefer the original.
Cacky

Changes to the site this week:

• CHANGE: In the activity log, we sometimes truncate long entries. We now have 'more' links to show the full entry.
• NEW: Added new chat API endpoints: /newchat, /updatechat, /getchats, /deletechat, /joinchat, /leavechat.
• NEW: Added /getevent API endpoint.
• BUGFIX: In some cases when someone RSVPs to an event but is waitlisted, an incorrect activity log entry was generated.
• NEW: Added /rsvp endpoint to set/update an event RSVP.
• CHANGE: Previously, the /getsubgroups endpoint would return group objects that represented group aliases. It now longer returns these.
• CHANGE: In the /directadd endpoint, if a subgroupname or subgroupid is specified that points to a group alias, the pointed to group will be used instead.
• NEW: Added /getgroupaliases API endpoint to fetch group aliases.
• INTERNAL: Split out chat websocket endpoint from the web server into a new chat server process.

Have a good weekend everyone.

Mark

I second the vote to change it back to how it was.

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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

On Fri, Jul 19, 2019 at 05:57 PM, Mark Fletcher wrote:

Hi All,

 

I've made some tweaks to the test version of the Your Groups dropdown (what you see when you go to https://groups.io?test=1). I'm truncating group titles at 30 characters. Also, I've fixed the display for when you're subscribed to just the parent group of a group that has subgroups.

 

Please let me know what you think.

 

Thanks,

Mark

 

 

Sorry, but the more I look at this, the more I think that it was a mistake to change how the list of groups is displayed to users without first having the option of maintaining the list that they have become accustomed to.

So, please accept my vote to put the list back to the way it was before these changes were started.
 
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Gerald

On Fri, Jul 19, 2019 at 04:04 PM, Duane wrote:

it's not being truncated.

Too fast for me.  Now it is.

Thanks,
Duane

On Fri, Jul 19, 2019 at 03:57 PM, Mark Fletcher wrote:

I'm truncating group titles at 30 characters.

On our test group, it's not being truncated.  Still shows:

Something to test the test page - a really long title to provoke the Your Groups drop list into truncation or wrapping or something. I wonder how long this text can be?

Duane

On Fri, Jul 19, 2019 at 1:57 PM Mark Fletcher <markf@corp.groups.io> wrote:

I've made some tweaks to the test version of the Your Groups dropdown (what you see when you go to https://groups.io?test=1). I'm truncating group titles at 30 characters. Also, I've fixed the display for when you're subscribed to just the parent group of a group that has subgroups.

That URL should be https://groups.io/groups?test=1

Thanks,

Mark

LGTM.

Best,

Glenn

On Fri, Jul 19, 2019 at 01:44 AM, debbie wrote:

I find that a lot of the messages sent to the owner address here don't have subject lines. Would it be possible to apply that same wonderful feature to the owner address?

If implemented, I'd want it to be optional.  Members looking to join my groups are often not too computer savvy and forget to include a subject.  On the other hand, spammers never forget to include one. ;>)

Duane

On Thu, Jul 11, 2019 at 12:19 AM, Nancy Funk wrote:

Could we please allow group owners & moderators the ability to change RSVPs for members.

This is also something I raised a support ticket (8127) for at the end of January this year and the response I got was:

Mark Fletcher (Groups.io)

Jan 28, 15:45 MST

Andy,

Unfortunately there is currently no way to change RSVPs at the owner level. It's on the TODO list, but I'm not sure when it will happen.

Thanks,
Mark

So until it changes, we are in the same boat as you. It's a feature that could be useful, if we could manage it.

Andy

FYI,

as Bruce reported on GMF, embedded images are scaled to 640px in the long dimension.
https://groups.io/g/GroupManagersForum/topic/photos_attached_or_placed_in/31887820

Andy