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Bugs sent to support not generating acknowledgements #Bug about bugs
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Mark, Happy New Year! About a week ago, (and also this morning), it happened again: I sent a bug report to support, did not receive an acknowledgement, and then (for the one a week ago) forwarded the whole thing to your groups.io email address with an explanatory note because I wasn't sure it got through to support. I don't know if you received that, but I heard nothing back and assumed that it is because you are on vacation, which is totally cool but I just want you to know that this is happening. It happened again this morning (the bug is that the Past Members page incorrectly shows some Rejected members - logged correctly in their History - as having been Removed). Since I'm receiving crickets from all of this, I decided to post about it on beta so that you will at least be aware of the problem. I will not post or email about it again until I hear something back one way or the other, either on beta, or from support, or from your email address. Meanwhile I will just try to keep track of the bugs I'm sending. Thanks and Happy New Year! J -- J Messages are the sole opinion of the author, especially the fishy ones.
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Re: Feature requests/Canny after two weeks
And hashtags also only really work for viewing on the web. Email
recipients may gain some advantage but the threaded views in email clients largely make them superfluous - if only people would use the threading features of their email clients of course, many do not (and hashtags won't help them either). Although hashtags are occasionally used in the groups I own they are few and far between. Most people just don't know what they are about (myself included...). Dave On 1 Jan 2020 at 5:03, Samuel Murray wrote: I thought that hashtags only "work" if they are applied to the first http://davesergeant.com
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Re: Feature requests/Canny after two weeks
Chris Jones
On Wed, Jan 1, 2020 at 01:03 PM, Samuel Murray wrote:
I thought that hashtags only "work" if they are applied to the first post of a topic. Wouldn't this mean that you would have to turn beta into a moderated group, so that you can add hashtags before the messages go out?Members can add hashtags when they start a topic. However, at present the library of hashtags is (IMHO) a complete mess that is badly in need of rationalisation; if you don't believe me go and look at it. I am working towards putting a semi - finite proposal to Mark, probably within the next day or two. As it will be proposed via beta I daresay it might trigger one or two howls of protest but that's a risk I am prepared to take. Watch this space... although I might make it a new topic. Chris
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Re: Feature requests/Canny after two weeks
On Thu, Dec 26, 2019 at 06:03 PM, Mark Fletcher wrote:
This is an odd restriction. I understand that you might want to give people who pay money some kind of priority attention w.r.t. feature requests, but generally feature requests should be evaluated on their individual merits, and people who don't pay can also have some good ideas (and be able to formulate it properly). How hashtags work and the fact that they can/should be used, may be clear for you and for people who regularly frequent group where hashtags are being used, but if you want to rely on hashtags alone to separate bug reports from feature requests and from support requests, you're going to be only partly successful. On the other hand, I agree with what others have said: many bug reports are actually feature requests, and vice versa, so it's useful to deal with both types of tickets in a single system (not in e.g. two separate mailing lists, unless there is a feature whereby a thread can be "moved" to another mailing list). Is there a reason why you don't have two subgroups, RFE@beta and BUG@beta, where people can post feature requests and bug reports? People will still post feature requests and bug reports to the main group, but a lot of RFEs and bug reports will end up in the right place, and you can hope that such posts will be better formulated, too. I think that sometimes if people know that they're posting to a bug-report specific list, they'll formulate their bug reports better, whereas if they post to a general discussion group, they tend to let their fingers wander along with their thoughts. I thought that hashtags only "work" if they are applied to the first post of a topic. Wouldn't this mean that you would have to turn beta into a moderated group, so that you can add hashtags before the messages go out? Or are you (and moderators in general) able to add hashtags to posts after they've been posted? Samuel
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Re: OT: amazing cat toy
Looks a lot like a leggy catterpillar that my cats go wild over! Will make a nice NY 2020 gift for them.
-- Sandi Dickenson ASG Volunteers Group.
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Re: OT: amazing cat toy
KWKloeber
A black leather whip? Hmmmmmm.... Ken
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Re: OT: amazing cat toy
Haha! They’re all going to sell out now. 😊
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On Dec 31, 2019, at 10:35 AM, txercoupemuseum.org <ercoguru@...> wrote:
-- J Messages are the sole opinion of the author, especially the fishy ones.
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Re: OT: amazing /c/a/t dog toy
Glenn Glazer
With deference to the previous posters,
I'm very much a dog person not a cat person, so let me share with
you an AMAZING and cheap dog toy. Take an empty plastic water
bottle, stick it in an old sock and tie a knot on the sock. Dogs
love it because it simulates chewing on bones. Happy new years, Glenn
On 12/31/2019 10:23, J_Catlady wrote:
Lotta cat lovers in this group! Glad it’s appreciated. Seriously, the toy is unbelievable. -- PG&E Delenda Est
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Re: OT: amazing cat toy
txercoupemuseum.org
Bought one too!
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WRB —
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Re: OT: amazing cat toy
Lotta cat lovers in this group! Glad it’s appreciated. Seriously, the toy is unbelievable.
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Happy New Year to everyone, too! 😊🐱
On Dec 31, 2019, at 10:02 AM, Steve G via Groups.Io <racer91@...> wrote:
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J Messages are the sole opinion of the author, especially the fishy ones.
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Re: OT: amazing cat toy
Steve G
That's so funny ... the last thing I
expected on this list was to learn about a great toy my cat would
probably love (looks fantastic!) Thanks for the accidental post & Happy New Year!
On 12/31/2019 12:49 PM, Victoria via Groups.Io wrote:
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Re: OT: amazing cat toy
Never mind. Got cats too. Happy new year to you and your cat. Victoria
Von: main@beta.groups.io [mailto:main@beta.groups.io] Im Auftrag von J_Catlady
SORRY! Posted to wrong group. Messages are the sole opinion of the author, especially the fishy ones.
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Re: Please create settings option to disable tags
#suggestion
Chris Jones
On Tue, Dec 31, 2019 at 05:16 PM, Alois Treindl wrote:
please create an option to disable/ hide the hashtag feature.You can do this for yourself: In Admin > Settings > Message Policies > Hashtag Permissions; set this to Messages from Subscribers can only be tagged with existing hashtags, new hashtags will be removed and then go Hashtags and delete (via Edit) any that already exist. Chris
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Please create settings option to disable tags
#suggestion
I like to run my group as close as possible to a traditional mailing list.
please create an option to disable/ hide the hashtag feature.
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option to Auto Follow Likes
#suggestion
This suggestion is for an option to Auto Follow Likes, similar to Auto Follow Replies.
(Not sure whether to post on canny any more, so am posting here.) -- J Messages are the sole opinion of the author, especially the fishy ones.
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Re: Feature requests/Canny after two weeks
Canny is a nice interface, but, for me, it makes keeping up with groups.io more difficult because it is yet another thing to monitor. Using hashtags in beta to separate new feature requests, bugs, etc. may be a convenience for Mark when he is planning his work agenda. If he finds them useful, I'm in favor.
Best, Marv
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Re: OT: amazing cat toy
SORRY! Posted to wrong group.
-- J Messages are the sole opinion of the author, especially the fishy ones.
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OT: amazing cat toy
My cats' feather wand toys were wearing out so I looked for a couple of new ones. Among the ones I ordered was this one:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00G90773S/ref=ox_sc_act_title_1?smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER&psc=1 It arrived yesterday, and wow!!! My cats are so obsessed with it that I had to share here. In all my years of cats, and billions of toys, I have never seen such an amazing reaction to a toy. (I'm almost afraid to post this because I'm afraid it will sell out or they'll raise the price.;) I just ordered two more, just in case!) They will play with non-stop, until *I* am the one worn out. I think it's the combination of the leather tassles and the feather. Who knows. -- J Messages are the sole opinion of the author, especially the fishy ones.
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Update Delete Topic dialog to include topic title
#suggestion
Louie S
I just had to delete an inappropriate topic from a group I moderate and accidental used the pull down menu from the previous topic. While there is a confirmation dialog it does not contain any information to identify the topic you are about to delete. I believe it would be very helpful for that confirmation dialog box to contain the topic title. That would very helpful and would probably prevented my from deleting the wrong topic.
tks, -louie
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Re: Sometimes, clicking Like causes a draft message to be saved
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>>> ... But if we click on
view/reply online, there should not be a reply box
automatically opened. We can do that for ourselves once
online by clicking the reply button. The problem is ... in the
automatic opening of the reply form... <<< Yes, the "View/Reply Online" link in the footer behaves differently in group digest*** emails vs group individual emails; the former will automatically open the reply box, the latter will not; i.e. the former includes the ?reply=1 parameter in the link, the latter does not. So in the former case, any click on most all other options on the thread/topic page except the red Discard (draft) button will result in a saved blank message body draft. The other two footer reply links behave the same, it's only this link that's different between the two. I don't know what's the intent behind this difference, but IMO it should work the same on both. Cheers, Christos *** (I only tested the Full-Feature digest, not sure if it also does the same on the plain or daily summary emails)
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