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Re: Disable RSS Feeds for a Member suggestion
dg,
Okay - still not sure what the big deal of it is -It isn't really a big deal. But if you're a member of a lot of low-activity groups, or like to read a lot of blogs, it can be handy to set up all their feeds in a reader or aggregator, and thereby get a single digest that contains any recent messages from all those different sources. RSS wouldn't really be appropriate, in my opinion, for keeping up with a very busy email list. For that a conventional digest from that list is probably the better choice. but it sounds like the answer for the OP is to tell the member to justI'm not sure, but Mark may have addressed the actual question. One of the available Integrations in a group is to post messages from an RSS feed (or maybe more than one). For example, if I had a blog where I post major articles, I could integrate its RSS feed to my group. This would cause a "blurb" (digest) of the article to be posted in the group whenever I make a new blog post. That might be appropriate if the blog and the group are on the same topic, and it might be a better way of having a user community comment on your blog than using the blog service's comment mechanism. So if the OP's group has such an integration, then there may have been a member hoping to not receive the RSS "blurbs". Muting the #feed hashtag would be a solution for that. -- Shal
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Re: Disable RSS Feeds for a Member suggestion
On 1/9/2016 1:42 PM, Shal Farley wrote:
RSS is something you must set up in an RSS reader, or aggregator service, or other software. If you haven't done that, then you aren't getting one.Okay - still not sure what the big deal of it is - but it sounds like the answer for the OP is to tell the member to just not enable it? dg
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Re: Disable RSS Feeds for a Member suggestion
dg,
I'm seriously old tech - and have never quite gotten what,Rich Site Summary (aka Really Simple Syndication) - it is a mechanism for new web page postings (primarily from blogs, but also messages from groups with public archives) to be delivered to you in a simple digest form. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS If I am getting an "RSS feed" from Beta - what is it andRSS is something you must set up in an RSS reader, or aggregator service, or other software. If you haven't done that, then you aren't getting one. For what it's worth, Yahoo Groups once supported RSS feeds for groups with public archives, but that seems to have been lost with the Neo redesign. http://web.archive.org/web/20130410111215/http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/GroupManagersForum/ There's a small orange RSS badge just above the message history table. If you have the Sage plug-in to Firefox (or another browser-based RSS reader) you can click that badge to see the digest of that group, at that time. -- Shal
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Re: Disable RSS Feeds for a Member suggestion
I'm seriously old tech - and have never quite gotten what,
exactly, an "RSS feed" is. If I am a member of a group (beta), I have a choice of email, digest, special notices, nomail (I think - I get email, so that's the only one I know for sure.). If I am getting an "RSS feed" from Beta - what is it and where is it going? If it is simply a notification - FB and Twit allow me to turn notifications on or off per person (and "thread"). Plus my phone allows me to turn off notifications (and assume any android phone does - and i or w phones or tablets). If it is more than a notification - then I would hope it would follow the email choice options. IOW, I agree that if a member is wanting to go noRSS they could, just like noMail. dg
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Re: Collapsable messages
Ella Yu <ellaxyu@...>
I'm not crazy about that, but it can be implemented.
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From: "Chris Leong" <walkraft@gmail.com To: beta@groups.io Date sent: Sat, 09 Jan 2016 05:36:27 -0800 Subject: [beta] Collapsable messages In Gmail, you can click at the top of a message to be able to collapse it. I think that would be a very useful feature that allows you to navigate through a thread faster.
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Collapsable messages
In Gmail, you can click at the top of a message to be able to collapse it. I think that would be a very useful feature that allows you to navigate through a thread faster.
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Re: NEW: Unmoderate After
I'm not yet using this feature, but the more I think about it, the more I like the idea. A few questions:
1. Does editing a post also reset the number of approved posts counter? 2. Does the change of status get logged? 3. Is there a way for the owner/moderator to know how many posts remain for a member before the status change occurs? Thanks, Duane
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Re: Join flow without password
Shal Farley wrote:>>You stepped right into an issue that caused a rather lengthy thread or two about the join process...<<
Yep, I figured that out when it happened. So I think I'm going to wait before inviting people to come who haven't got that much tech savvy. Please remember to send me an invite from your test group, so I can see what it's like to join by invitation. Thanks! Brenda
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Re: email
#suggestion
Which is a bug Ella Yu? (1) Not being redirected to the Edit Subject page, or (2) No info visible on the Edit Subject page about what hashtags are available? Green
On Thu, Jan 7, 2016 at 4:51 PM, Ella Yu <ellaxyu@...> wrote: That's strange, and it's a bug that needs fixing.
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Re: Site updates
#changelog
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Re: Site updates
#changelog
Thanks. :-)
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Re: Site updates
#changelog
On Fri, Jan 8, 2016 at 9:56 PM, J_catlady <j.olivia.catlady@...> wrote:
It gets sent to all people who are added to the group during the transfer that were not already members. Mark
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Re: Site updates
#changelog
Mark, On the custom welcome message in the group transfer, did you mean to say "to all new members" or "to all members"? If "all new members," by "new" do you mean any member who was not already in the io group at the time of the transfer? Thanks, and have a nice weekend! J
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Site updates
#changelog
Changes to the site the past few days:
Have a good weekend everybody! Mark
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Re: Notification to member of Role changes
#suggestion
Judy F.
I totally agree Dano.
Judy F. SW Florida - USA
From: D R Stinson [mailto:dano@...]
Sent: Friday, January 08, 2016 11:38 PM To: beta@groups.io Subject: Re: [beta] Notification to member of Role changes #members #suggestions
> It appears that members are not sent any notification when a moderator > changes their Role. I think perhaps there should be.
I would rather this be a moderator's option. There are some posters we'd as soon think they're still moderated. They're much more thoughtful and careful about following group rules when they're moderated. Unmoderated, they seem to revert back to their own sloppy ways. There are a number of reasons why someone might want to change a moderator's abilities without coming out and saying something. Yeah, it's a little dysfunctional, but then, groups aren't democracies and sometimes quiet things work best for the owner.
Dano
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Re: Notification to member of Role changes
#suggestion
> It appears that members are not sent any notification when a moderator > changes their Role. I think perhaps there should be.
I would rather this be a moderator's option. There are some posters we'd as soon think they're still moderated. They're much more thoughtful and careful about following group rules when they're moderated. Unmoderated, they seem to revert back to their own sloppy ways. There are a number of reasons why someone might want to change a moderator's abilities without coming out and saying something. Yeah, it's a little dysfunctional, but then, groups aren't democracies and sometimes quiet things work best for the owner.
Dano
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Join flow without password
In "Re: [beta] "P" next to member name" Brenda wrote:
My attempt to join GMF cold, as someone not already having an iohttps://groups.io/g/beta/message/4960 You stepped right into an issue that caused a rather lengthy thread or two about the join process. I believe that's part of what Mark's intending to fix in his early 2016 roadmap. https://groups.io/g/beta/thread/join_group_flow/269647 https://groups.io/g/beta/thread/suggestion_make_subscription/240853 As things stand, the way to join email-only is to use the email +subscribe command. The web interface assumes you want access to the group's members-only web pages (for which a password is required). -- Shal https://groups.io/g/GroupManagersForum
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Relative versus absolute date/time
#suggestion
Mark,
Elsewhere Duane said: I use https://groups.io/ to see if there are any pending posts orSo, how about wherever a relative time is shown, provide a hover text with the absolute date/time (user's time zone, of course)? Bonus: a profile option to swap those (display absolute, tool-tip the relative time), or https://trello.com/c/sAS6woCj/4-date-format-in-profiles -- Shal p.s.: http://xkcd.com/1179/
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Re: "P" next to member name
Hi Shal,
My attempt to join GMF cold, as someone not already having an io account, brought up this message: ********************************** "To join any groups you must log in below. If you haven't already registered with Groups.io you can register now by entering your email address below and choosing a new password that you will use to log in to Groups.io." Email address: Password: Passwords must be at least 6 characters long. ************************************ So I can understand the confusion if someone is trying to join a group, but doesn't understand that they can subscribe without a password, since it states when clicking the "join this group" button that they "must log in below" and lists Email address and password. ********************************** Can you explain this or can Mark? I thought there would be an option for e-mail subscribing only, but I don't see it if it's there. Brenda
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Photos feature wish list
weebeequilting <weebee.1@...>
The members of my group would very much like the capability to add comments to other people's photos like we could in Yahoo. Janice Bahrt
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