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On Fri, May 22, 2020 at 6:47 AM Bob Bellizzi <cdfexec@...> wrote: On one of my Premiuum groups I noticed that my message scroll referted to 20. This should be fixed now. Thanks, Mark
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Hi J, On Fri, May 22, 2020 at 1:19 PM J_Catlady <j.olivia.catlady@...> wrote:
That should now be fixed. I don't know whether the bug where activity log entries show someone not in the group acting as a moderator is related to this or not. The log entries are still there (I would not expect them to be wiped out even if the bug had been fixed) and this may be a separate bug. I haven't touched the activity log, so that's a separate issue. If you (or your friend) can send me the details off-list, I'll investigate. In terms of pages I've re-written, I've only done the User Account, Message, Messages, Topic, Topics and Hashtags pages so far. In theory you should not see any differences, except where I've inadvertently introduced bugs. And also the Hashtags page has a new toggleable List view (it's viewable on production right now, but if I see any bugs, I'll take it down until next week. So if you don't see the new list view, that'd be why). Thanks, Mark
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Re: Rejecting messages without a subject line
#suggestion
On Fri, May 22, 2020 at 04:49 PM, Debbie wrote:
I think it's great that when someone tries to send a message it isI think that honest prospective members are more likely to write to +owner without Subject than spammers.
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Mark,
My group is, right now, showing wrong display names below messages. So I'm not sure whether you meant that only the bad links had been fixed, and that you were still working on the rest of the bug, or that both had been fixed. I can tell you that the wrong-display-name bug has not yet been fixed. I don't know whether the bug where activity log entries show someone not in the group acting as a moderator is related to this or not. The log entries are still there (I would not expect them to be wiped out even if the bug had been fixed) and this may be a separate bug. -- J Messages are the sole opinion of the author, especially the fishy ones.
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Sorry, am seeing Mark's message after posting mine because I was not yet following this topic. Maybe it's fixed now.
-- J Messages are the sole opinion of the author, especially the fishy ones.
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I don’t know whether or not this is related, but a group I’m a mod in (not the owner of) shows an entry “X changed Y’s email address from” . But (a) X is not a member of the group and (b) there’s no “changed it to” - just “from.” The same entry appears in Y’s member activity log. I’ve notified the group owner, who may be reporting it as a bug. But maybe something is awry this morning.
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On May 22, 2020, at 10:57 AM, Bruce Bowman <bruce.bowman@...> wrote:
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J Messages are the sole opinion of the author, especially the fishy ones.
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On Fri, May 22, 2020 at 10:57 AM Bruce Bowman <bruce.bowman@...> wrote: I'm having problems with Messages view right now. Some of the messages display the wrong poster information, and the links look like https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/%7B%7BmsgView.Message.Num%20%%7D. Clicking on said link gives a 400 error. Thanks for the bug report. I am (slowly) redoing all the webpages using a different technology, cleaning up some technical debt, and I've started testing some of those changes on the live site (specifically on one of the 3 webservers in production). The bad links should be fixed now. Thanks, Mark
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I'm having problems with Messages view right now. Some of the messages display the wrong poster information, and the links look like https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/%7B%7BmsgView.Message.Num%20%%7D. Clicking on said link gives a 400 error.
I can overcome the problem by switching to Expanded view. FYI, Bruce
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Re: The ability to resize all uploaded Photos, or even a a single Photo
#suggestion
paul fox
chris jones via groups.io wrote:
> On Fri, May 22, 2020 at 04:51 PM, paul fox wrote: > > > > > Ownership of the files would likely be lost (I assume the zip file > > wouldn't contain that information), but it could be probably be restored > > by group admins on an as-needed basis. > > And what about any additional text that might have been added for > various photographs? I know that many "uploaders" are lazy when it Good point. As it turns out that the downloaded zip file (I fetched one, to see what it looked like) contains a json file for each folder and image containing the original datestamp and description fields. Example: {"Created":"2016-01-12T20:14:10-08:00","Name":"Edge.jpg", \ "Desc":"This View shows how the Wood is tapered for Better Fit"} It's not hard to imagine an import process that honored that json file. > comes to tidying up photographs names and adding explanatory text, > but those that are diligent should not have to see their efforts > come to nothing. > > If any change is to be requested, IMHO it ought to be resizing in situ. Obviously that would be optimal. And actually, as much as I'd love a bulk resize, I think a per-file button on the edit box might be better: we have photos in our Photos section that are scans of antique newspapers and manuals. Those should probably remain big, and should have gone to the Files section in the first place. But I'd hate to lose their detail in a bulk operation. paul =---------------------- paul fox, pgf@foxharp.boston.ma.us (arlington, ma, where it's 77.2 degrees)
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Re: The ability to resize all uploaded Photos, or even a a single Photo
#suggestion
I'm another one with the same problem of needing to resize some photos. If it makes any difference, I have three premium groups that have the problem in, but only on random images. I didn't resize on transfer because I don't want all images resampled. There are a few, however that are not worth the space they take up now.
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As has been suggested, it's possible to resample them manually and replace the original and reassign ownership, but that's a lot of fooling around for something that should be more simple. I would really like to see a function where an owner or moderator with such rights can select an image and have the system resample them down without changing the ownership or other information. I might be something that could be added to the extra abilities of Premium groups. A group that needed to do this one time might be able to go Premium for a month to do this. Personally, I prefer to keep a few groups Premium to help support groups.io. A related thing I would like is to be able to move an attachment to another folder without losing the connection to the original message, so the attachment didn't cycle out. I wouldn't worry so much about later appearances in a group, and am only concerned with the first appearance in a thread. Dano
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Another possible solution to this problem occurred to me. As I understand it, I have the ability to export all Photos and end up with a big zip file. Assuming (and this is a big assumption) that the folders and folder names are preserved in that zip file, then it could be possible to: • Export to zip file • Do an offline batch resize of the photos • Create a fresh zip file • Pay groups.io a one-time fee to wipe out the current photos and replace them with the contents of the zipfile Ownership of the files would likely be lost (I assume the zip file wouldn't contain that information), but it could be probably be restored by group admins on an as-needed basis.
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Re: The ability to resize all uploaded Photos, or even a a single Photo
#suggestion
Chris Jones
On Fri, May 22, 2020 at 04:51 PM, paul fox wrote:
Ownership of the files would likely be lost (I assume the zip file wouldn't contain that information), but it could be probably be restored by group admins on an as-needed basis.And what about any additional text that might have been added for various photographs? I know that many "uploaders" are lazy when it comes to tidying up photographs names and adding explanatory text, but those that are diligent should not have to see their efforts come to nothing. If any change is to be requested, IMHO it ought to be resizing in situ. Chris
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Re: The ability to resize all uploaded Photos, or even a a single Photo
#suggestion
paul fox
Another possible solution to this problem occurred to me.
As I understand it, I have the ability to export all Photos and end up with a big zip file. Assuming (and this is a big assumption) that the folders and folder names are preserved in that zip file, then it could be possible to:
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Re: Rejecting messages without a subject line
#suggestion
I hope this feature never goes away. And, yes, I also want this to apply to owner messages as well.
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On Fri, May 22, 2020 at 09:47 AM, Bob Bellizzi wrote:
On one of my Premiuum groups I noticed that my message scroll referted to 20.This is normal (but perplexing) behavior for database tables. See https://groups.io/helpcenter/membersmanual/1/understanding-groups-io-accounts/setting-account-preferences-and-viewing-account-information If it's happening with something else that would be a bug. Regards, Bruce
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Rejecting messages without a subject line
#suggestion
Debbie
I wrote about this a couple of times in the past few years, and never saw anything about why it's not being done. I think it's great that when someone tries to send a message it is automatically rejected if it has no subject line. I would love it if that feature would be applied to the messages sent to the owner address. I get those often and find it very annoying.
Have a good weekend, Debbie
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Bob Bellizzi
On one of my Premiuum groups I noticed that my message scroll referted to 20.
When I checked my account it indicated I had it set to Infinite. I set it to 20 and it worked. I set it to 100 and it worked. I set it to Infinite and it only provided 20. When I checked it it was set to Infinite. I went through this procedure several times and had the same results. Mark, the group is FuchsFriends -- Bob Bellizzi
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Re: New notifications proposal
#misc
Some time ago I asked fot notifications to the moderators when someone uploads a file, a photo, a database.
Will this be considrered in the notifications overhaul? Victoria
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Re: Reinstate previous version of groups home page on mobile devices
#suggestion
On Fri, May 22, 2020 at 12:10 AM, Duane wrote:
Not 100% sure it will show what you want, but try going to the main group, then select Subgroups on the left (NOT the one under Admin).Hi Duane, I've looked at that too. It does show membership details of subgroups as you say but does not show pending messages or subscriptions, and it involves more user actions to get there. The Groups page is a great overview of all groups and subgroups I am a member of and it's probably my 'go to' page on a mobile and desktop. The desktop version includes the number of members for each group and each number is also a link to the membership list which I find really useful. I'm sure that was the case on the mobile version too and it's probably one of those things I used without really thinking about it. Andy
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Re: The ability to resize all uploaded Photos, or even a a single Photo
#suggestion
txercoupemuseum.org
My groups are much the same. We need this also; as, undoubtedly untold “free” (or will be “free” come fall) groups. So “Me too”! WRB —
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The ability to resize all uploaded Photos, or even a a single Photo
#suggestion
paul fox
I'm going to paraphrase a bit of a thread from GMF that occurred in November 2019. ("Resizing photos?") At the time, it was suggested that I wait until after all of the Yahoo transfer churn had settled down, and then post this to beta. So here I am.
The issue for me (and similarly for others, if I search for "photo resize" in GMF) is this: I'm a relatively new co-owner of a group that was started 7 years ago, and as a result of our recently hitting the free storage limit (1G plus a very generous .4G overage) I've realized that no one had ever set up resize-on-upload for images. So we have a relatively small number of huge images consuming our space. I'd love to be able to do a resize on all images, but the steps to do so manually involve downloading, resizing, deleting the original, uploading, and then reverting it to the original owner (if its an admin doing the work). For each and every oversize image. The idea of doing this for an entire Photos collection is daunting, to say the least. It would be great to have a way (either with a UI button, or a request to an uber-admin) to resize an entire Photos collection. Next best would be to have a "Resize" button on the photo Edit page, which would eliminate most of the drudgery described above. It might default to resizing to the group max upload size, and of course it would never increase an image's size. Thanks for maybe considering this!
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