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Unable to upload files
Tina
I am a group owner and I am seeking a little help please. I can create folders in my files section, but I can no longer upload files to those folders. I get a red circle with a diagonal line across it (no access icon). Can anyone help me solve this please?
Tina
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Re: Notice of Pricing Change
Hi All, Because the conversation had devolved, I put this topic on moderation last night before I went to bed, and will be locking it this morning, without approving any of the messages sent last night. Apropos of nothing, here is a picture of Linus. Thanks, Mark
On Mon, Oct 21, 2019 at 2:28 PM Mark Fletcher via Groups.Io <markf=corp.groups.io@groups.io> wrote:
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Re: Split Thread- Is it practice to lose attachments?
It could also be just a bug report.
On Wed, Oct 23, 2019 at 8:14 AM D R Stinson <dano@...> wrote: The way I see it I don't think so. It's a question of how groups.io is handling something as part of the coding. It's not asking how to do something, but a concern about how the system is handling data in a split. I'm not a moderator (I don't think there ARE moderators on beta), but it sounds reasonable to me to ask on beta. --
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Re: Split Thread- Is it practice to lose attachments?
The way I see it I don't think so. It's a question of how groups.io is handling something as part of the coding. It's not asking how to do something, but a concern about how the system is handling data in a split. I'm not a moderator (I don't think there ARE moderators on beta), but it sounds reasonable to me to ask on beta.
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Is this not a topic for GMF? Chris Dave W asked: For reasons of diverging topic, I split a thread but the photos in line were left out, at least their 'code' remains but no pic. IS this usual as I can't find any previous note about this. Obviously not an ideal situation, which linits the usefulness of the split/ merge functionality,
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Re: Split Thread- Is it practice to lose attachments?
Chris Jones
Is this not a topic for GMF?
Chris
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Split Thread- Is it practice to lose attachments?
For reasons of diverging topic, I split a thread but the photos in line were left out, at least their 'code' remains but no pic. IS this usual as I can't find any previous note about this.
Obviously not an ideal situation, which linits the usefulness of the split/ merge functionality, thanks, davew
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Re: Notice of Pricing Change
You are welcome to the last word.
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On Oct 23, 2019, at 12:41 AM, J_Catlady <j.olivia.catlady@...> wrote: Susan, No one is forcing you to agree with my views or anyone else's here. We don't need to discuss the fact that we obviously disagree with each other. This is not a private conversation. We are expressing our views and that's fine. It's not necessary to keep insisting that my own opinion is my own opinion lol. On Tue, Oct 22, 2019 at 9:39 PM Susan B <doggiesmail@...> wrote:
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Susan, No one is forcing you to agree with my views or anyone else's here. We don't need to discuss the fact that we obviously disagree with each other. This is not a private conversation. We are expressing our views and that's fine. It's not necessary to keep insisting that my own opinion is my own opinion lol.
On Tue, Oct 22, 2019 at 9:39 PM Susan B <doggiesmail@...> wrote:
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J. Olivia A to Z I don’t agree with your views at all. Sorry. Susan B
On Oct 23, 2019, at 12:32 AM, J_Catlady <j.olivia.catlady@...> wrote: On Tue, Oct 22, 2019 at 09:25 PM, Susan B wrote: That is in your opinion of course.As it says in my signature: sole opinion of the author. That said, I've seen people here whine and yell (with caps and exclamation marks) that "all our files are going to be lost!" in the same breath in which they blame Mark for charging them money to save it. It is not Mark's fault that "all their files are going to be lost." That's a combination of yahoo and their own intransigence in ignoring the signs of yahoo's demise. And if you want to give these folks the benefit of the doubt, you can say it's entirely yahoo's fault. But still: not Mark's. Not at all. And they (or some of them) blame him. That part is not a matter of opinion. -- J Messages are the sole opinion of the author, especially the fishy ones.
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On Tue, Oct 22, 2019 at 09:25 PM, Susan B wrote:
That is in your opinion of course.As it says in my signature: sole opinion of the author. That said, I've seen people here whine and yell (with caps and exclamation marks) that "all our files are going to be lost!" in the same breath in which they blame Mark for charging them money to save it. It is not Mark's fault that "all their files are going to be lost." That's a combination of yahoo and their own intransigence in ignoring the signs of yahoo's demise. And if you want to give these folks the benefit of the doubt, you can say it's entirely yahoo's fault. But still: not Mark's. Not at all. And they (or some of them) blame him. That part is not a matter of opinion. -- J Messages are the sole opinion of the author, especially the fishy ones.
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J. Olivia,
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That is in your opinion of course. Seems to me that many are struggling to cope with two chaotic events at the same time and are feeling pretty beat up and desperate. Susan B
On Oct 22, 2019, at 11:41 PM, J_Catlady <j.olivia.catlady@...> wrote: On Tue, Oct 22, 2019 at 08:13 PM, Susan B wrote: don’t believe they are intending to shift the burdenBut that's what they are doing. -- J Messages are the sole opinion of the author, especially the fishy ones.
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AG1P Ron
I appreciate the difficult situation Mark is in. I know first-hand what it means when your usage exceeds contract bands of service. I used to work for an outsourcer before burnout set in. The rub comes when you have small groups of maybe a hundred or fewer people that are doing good things for humanity - like sharing info on rare childhood diseases or cancer types where the data will be lost if not moved. I am webmaster for a group that fortunately can afford the higher costs but it wasn’t that long ago we were struggling to survive. I know Mark is swamped but maybe come up with a set of qualifications for free or low cost services for those groups whose content would cause detriment to those who really don’t need any more chaos or unknowns in their life. Not many of us have a conscience permitting us to let a child die because they weren’t able to get shared experience data that might save their child’s life. Just charge extra to those who can afford to pay more and ask for donations to cover costs similar to what many local power companies do for emergency assistance. We are on fixed income but still donate a few bucks every month in hope that someone or some people keep their power going.
Ron
From: main@beta.groups.io [mailto:main@beta.groups.io] On Behalf Of J_Catlady
On Tue, Oct 22, 2019 at 08:13 PM, Susan B wrote: don’t believe they are intending to shift the burden But that's what they are doing. Messages are the sole opinion of the author, especially the fishy ones.
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On Tue, Oct 22, 2019 at 08:13 PM, Susan B wrote:
don’t believe they are intending to shift the burdenBut that's what they are doing. -- J Messages are the sole opinion of the author, especially the fishy ones.
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Re: Notice of Pricing Change
Maria,
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If you think about it, everyone is going to have a slightly or largely different take on this. I don’t think anyone can expect another group owner to feel the same as they do, no matter what great reasons are put forth. All their circumstances are unique. What’s easy for one is very difficult for someone else. What may be true for one group may be very wrong for another. I may very much agree with many of your points. But on the other hand, others just may not see it that way and I don’t believe they are intending to shift the burden, I think they are trying very hard to cope with many things that are unexpected. Susan B
On Oct 22, 2019, at 11:00 PM, Maria via Groups.Io <m.conway11@...> wrote: On Tue, Oct 22, 2019 at 09:49 PM, Janis wrote: It is wonderful to have my groups free of ads now.Isn't it? You know what's also wonderful? To have: - No farming of our data - No submission of our data to ad tracking networks - Barely any downtime in the past 3 years our group has been here - Things actually work - unlike back when we too were on Y!groups - frequent updates and improvements - more features than Y!groups ever dreamed of You have all heard the saying - if it's free, you are the product? I think that's mostly true when it comes to other group platforms. They are either marketing your data or ad based. That's their business model. But not the one here. And furthermore, even when it comes to that saying, Groups.io is an exception and reflects the integrity that drives it: they could exploit the groups that are hosted for free - but they don't. Think about that. Then think about how candid and straight forward it was to simply say that pricing for transfers needed to be adjusted to reflect a need to strengthen infrastructure and deal with this huge sudden influx. So, seriously, for those with groups who are not helping them reach the financial goal to deal with the very reasonable transfer fee, please don't shift the burden of that problem on the service that is offering you a solution. It's not cool. I understand the frustration and I feel bad for all those who didn't read all the signs years ago that Y! was sunsetting it's service, but please figure it out, or ask for help on how to figure it out. It will be the best investment in your groups. This platform is so worth it. Maria
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On Tue, Oct 22, 2019 at 08:08 PM, J_Catlady wrote:
the genie filnally lets the person out of the bottle,someone else (not the genie) had trapped the person in the bottle :) -- J Messages are the sole opinion of the author, especially the fishy ones.
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On Tue, Oct 22, 2019 at 08:00 PM, Maria wrote:
please don't shift the burden of that problem on the service that is offering you a solution. It's not cool.Yes! It reminds me of that fairy tale where the genie filnally lets the person out of the bottle, and the person kills the genie. Or something. :) -- J Messages are the sole opinion of the author, especially the fishy ones.
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Maria
On Tue, Oct 22, 2019 at 09:49 PM, Janis wrote:
It is wonderful to have my groups free of ads now.Isn't it? You know what's also wonderful? To have: - No farming of our data - No submission of our data to ad tracking networks - Barely any downtime in the past 3 years our group has been here - Things actually work - unlike back when we too were on Y!groups - frequent updates and improvements - more features than Y!groups ever dreamed of You have all heard the saying - if it's free, you are the product? I think that's mostly true when it comes to other group platforms. They are either marketing your data or ad based. That's their business model. But not the one here. And furthermore, even when it comes to that saying, Groups.io is an exception and reflects the integrity that drives it: they could exploit the groups that are hosted for free - but they don't. Think about that. Then think about how candid and straight forward it was to simply say that pricing for transfers needed to be adjusted to reflect a need to strengthen infrastructure and deal with this huge sudden influx. So, seriously, for those with groups who are not helping them reach the financial goal to deal with the very reasonable transfer fee, please don't shift the burden of that problem on the service that is offering you a solution. It's not cool. I understand the frustration and I feel bad for all those who didn't read all the signs years ago that Y! was sunsetting it's service, but please figure it out, or ask for help on how to figure it out. It will be the best investment in your groups. This platform is so worth it. Maria
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Mark,
I think we all understand the havoc YG has caused by not announcing the website shut down months ago and giving groups more time to preserve archives, and find a new group home. I have even worried that your team would not be able to do all the requested transfers before Dec. 14. And we understand the extra cost incurred by your business sincd the YG announcement.by The only issue is the short notice for the price change. I actually thought one reason for the price change was to get everyone to hurry up and nmake a decision and get the transfer requests in ASAP so you have an idea how many you will have to deal with and can get all our YG stuff copied in time. The short notice forced a decision for those of us waiting to upgrade. I found about the price change last night about 10 p m CDT and first thing this morning upgraded all 4 of my groups. 2 do not need transfers. The other two have transfer s started this morning. Glad I did it. We had a choice not to wait for the price change to take effect. I won't charge my members. It has always been my group and my sole decision to move here to save our message archives instead of abandoning the group.message Thanks for your hard work and for keeping the site ad free! I just found out about this site a few days ago from a LifeHacker article on Apple. News. What a lucky find! 😄 I love Groups.io! Janis I like your cats too. You could probably have a place for all t he cat loving members to upload our cat photos! Just for fun!
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My two cents worth:
There are no ads showing in our groups and our personal pae on Groups.io yahoo is not free. We pay for the service at Yahoo groups by having annoying ads in our medsage board and underneath the list of topics. Probably why they sre going away. I read that one of the reasons for YG shutting down the group online pages is that people are using thebemail and not visiting the group. So they are not seeing the ads. Advertisers do not like that! It is wonderful to have my groups free of ads now. And wonderful to be able to have a site that is transfering my members, files, photis, links and best of all message archives. One of the groups I am a member of is going to Facebook. They cannot move the ir 16 years of messages, except by saving a few in pdf files. And the group owner is spending everyday trying to move files. They are also losing members eho dislike Facebook or who do not want to bother with it. I am thrilled I found the Groups.io site. I only found out about it because one of my group members shsred an Apple News LifeHacker article with us. The writer recommended Groups.io as the best option for those of us abandoned by Yahoo Groups. He listed a few other options including Facebook, but only recommended Groups.io. Janis
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On Tue, Oct 22, 2019 at 05:24 PM, deborah75001 wrote:
It is easy to be sarcastic when you are already on io groups and have transferred a long time ago.I am far from being sarcastic. I am dead serious. -- J Messages are the sole opinion of the author, especially the fishy ones.
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