No idea.  I would have her try a full-on https://groups.io and also make sure she's not typing a ".com" on the end.

I'm sure there's a way to get Chrome to come up with some diagnostics explaining why it's having problems, but as I don't use it, I can't say exactly how.

JohnF

I have asked people in one of my groups to sign up with groups.io.  One of the members tried by typing in groups.io.  When I gave her the link to this group, she tried that as well.  She ends up with a "?" in front of the url and doesn't know what's going on.  She's not very literate when it comes to this kind of stuff; but, she would like to get a feel for groups.io; but, it seems that she is unable to do so.  Is there a reason that she can't access groups.io?  She uses Windows 8.1 and Google Chrome for her browser.  I would like to help her; but, I only use an old iMac.  If anybody has any ideas or suggestions let me know. 

Donna

I'd like to echo what others have said that anyone wanting to move a
group needs to have that trusted owner make a group announcement. If
I just received that groups.io transfer announcement out of the blue,
I would assume it was a spam/scam.

All,

I've made a couple changes to the Group Home page. I moved the text (group title and address) out of the image, below it. 

More importantly, I changed how the cover image was being scaled. I think this is better and will be easier for people to deal with. It doesn't rely on a specific image size; it dynamically resizes and does not crop.

Please let me know what you think.

Thanks,

Mark

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On 23 January 2015 at 23:46, Mark Fletcher <markf@corp.groups.io> wrote:

On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 3:26 PM, Feathered Leader <featheredleader@...> wrote:

Last night I used the new button for approve post and unmoderate member in MMSanctuary. However, when I went to the member's details, they were still on moderation and I had to manually unmoderate the member.

Is this a bug or was it just not working yet?

 It's definitely working. I think I see the instance where you tried to use it. For some reason it didn't think the subscriber was on modified status. I've added more logging and will track it..

Also, is it possible to separate the two moderator privileges "Modify Group Settings" & "Delete Group?"

Added to the todo list.

Thanks,

Mark 

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I'd like to echo what others have said that anyone wanting to move a group needs to have that trusted owner make a group announcement.  If I just received that groups.io transfer announcement out of the blue, I would assume it was a spam/scam.

I'm not sure how you're downloading the member list, but when I look at it (as a non-moderator) and View Source, I can see owners tagged with a "yg-sprite tip owner-img" class you could use, if you do it that way.

I always like to think of what sorts of evil things that troublemakers could do, and in this case, it would be signing in as other members of the group and registering passwords for them before the actual group members got a chance.  So for group migrations, you would definitely have to send out a verification mail when someone wants to set up a password.  (Maybe you do this already.  I've forgotten.)

JohnF

I think it's good to get the writing off the group image, as that only works well with certain images.  However, I think there should be an option for no scaling at all.  As an example, we had a family group on Yahoo, and when something major happened to a certain family member, we would change the group image to be one of that person.  Stretching or squashing that image would just ruin it, and it's too much work to photo edit everything we'd want to put up.

JohnF

I prefer "Messages" to "Archives" as well.  Archives comes from the listserv practice where it's assumed everyone gets mail, and no one has to look at old messages unless they're really wanting to look at OLD messages.  Messages is better when there may be some people who don't get mail and just want to read on the web.

JohnF

Hi Mark,

It does show the whole image now, which is nice.  It tends to leave a good deal of white space on either side (on my screen anyway) in most cases of images I've tried out so far.  I notice that groups with the default elephant picture have almost the whole page taken up, and the image spreads across the width of the page, but I wasn't able to replicate that with any images I tried.  I'd be content with any of the non-full width images I tried out, except for the white space that remained on the sides.  Would there be a way to allow the mod to set the image to be left justified instead of centered?  

Mostly, I like the functionality of the change, as the images I uploaded weren't cropped anymore, and only a few went smooshy on me.  Just wondering how to best work with the new parameters to create the look I'd prefer.

I also noted that the cover picture doesn't preview the new image.  It would be nice if it could, as I found myself bouncing to the home screen and back as I tried images out.  Minor stuff.

Thanks!

-Tyger

Maybe you are saying what I am hoping for and terminology is
getting in the way. I want to be able to include the last reply to
the original message.

Should we change the name Archives to Messages?