Nick, You can prevent them from posting in the main group that way, but you can't stop them from reading its messages. They can do so either by visiting its archive (unless no one can) or by changing

The 'problem' with that is that anyone in the sub-group has to be a member of the main group and there's nothing to prevent them from posting there. You might want to put all of those in the

I agree totally re not notifying people - that would be bad. My worry is that duplicate messages confuse and the sub-group would never be an active part of the main group Kind

I don't think we want to go down the path of "Allow adding users to a group without notifying the users that they have been added to a group," but you could make a custom welcome message for the main

Dear all, I wish to create a new sub-group of my main group, and will be using the Direct Add feature to get their names and email addresses registered and active. However, I wish to only allow

Hi Mark, I'm pretty sure I'm never going to be in a situation where I can pay for premium. But could you give us a way to donate? Strictly voluntary, of course, but it could be a secondary income

Changes to the site this week: BUGFIX: Display lock/gavel for locked/moderated messages in the expanded message view. BUGFIX: Hashtags that are set as special are now forced to be moderator

Mark, Still nada on hover-over with mouse using NVDA or JAWS on the gavel icon. Dead silence. It is also important that whatever technique you use for this will result in a

Hi Brian, Good catch. Should be fixed now. (The fix is to add <span class="sr-only">description to be read out</span>). Thanks, Mark

Mark, Since I know you take accessibility seriously there is a problem with those icons. When testing with NVDA it's as if they do not exist whether I'm hovering over with a mouse or in a

Now, I twist on your closing: Thanks, Mark. I feel so much better that my "dumb as a box o' rocks" may be accurately applied going forward (at least for the sighted, I have no idea how those icons

[Beta] New card "Automated, customizable "topic closed" and "topic moderated" notices" was added to list "Messages and Archives". [Beta] The blue label "Messages & Archives" was added to the card

Locks and gavels are now displayed in all message views (they were missing from Messages and Expanded Messages). Thanks, Mark

Mark, On this message the issue appears to be gone. I will continue watching and let you know if it occurs again. If you would prefer that issues like this be identified via the support

Brian, I just upgraded the version of TinyMCE to fix another bug. I haven't been able to reproduce your bug. Can you see if the new version fixes it? Thanks, Mark

Hi All, Based on the feedback I received after I increased the price of the premium plan a few weeks ago, it became clear that that was the wrong thing to do (while Mark likes to believe he's perfect,

Thanks, Shal. -- J Messages are the sole opinion of the author. Especially the fishy ones. I wish I could shut up, but I can't, and I won't. - Desmond Tutu

J, I don't think groups.io addresses have been figleafed in quite a long time - I think that exception was made maybe as early as the implementation of figleafing

I noticed this morning that groups.io email addresses (xyz@groups.io) are no longer figleafed on the web. I jumped to the conclusion that email addresses in general are no longer figleafed and I was

Mark, I am now encountering an issue that I had not encountered before: the inability to "backspace out" a block of selected text if and only if that selected text runs to the last character