On Wed, Jun 17, 2020 at 04:48 PM, Duane wrote:

Create them and make the settings you want. 

Ok, great, thanks. However, it seems preferable for the system to create them all. Before I create them on my own, how do I even know which ones are available? Failing groups.io doing it, there should be a list somewhere, maybe in the documentation, about exactly what notification hashtags are available.
 
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Bug: I edited the #wiki hashtag to not be emailed to the group. Then I edited a wiki page. A #wiki notification was emailed to the group.

Also: I still am receiving no push notifications, despite my notifications being enabled, and specifically enabled for groups.io in Firefox. The text push notification worked, but nothing since then.
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On Wed, Jun 17, 2020 at 06:44 PM, J_Catlady wrote:

1. The hashtag does not come into existence until the event (e.g., edit wiki page) occurs. That does not allow pre-editing. In the example of wiki pages, and probably others, I don't want notification messages going to the group. But there's no way to prevent that a priori, because the hashtag does not exist a prior.

Yes you can, just like I did for all the #cal- tags (I set them all to moderated).  Create them and make the settings you want.  The hashtag is only created on occurrence if it doesn't already exist.

Duane

I've started running some tests in my test group. I edited a wiki page. Here are the issues so far:

1. The hashtag does not come into existence until the event (e.g., edit wiki page) occurs. That does not allow pre-editing. In the example of wiki pages, and probably others, I don't want notification messages going to the group. But there's no way to prevent that a priori, because the hashtag does not exist a prior.

2. I didn't get a push notification.

3. I'm not sure about whether a general hashtag edit makes sense for these special tags. I like that there is (I now see, once the tag came into existence) a way to prevent the notification from being emailed to the group. But I feel like hashtags are not the right kind of thing for this. It feels like a square peg in a round hole. I don't see any obvious problems yet but I feel like they will surface eventually.
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On Wed, Jun 17, 2020 at 07:14 PM, I wrote:

For those of us who own multiple groups, it would be helpful if the pushed notification included some indication of which group the update occurred.

Well, if you click on the link, it takes you there...so maybe not so important after all.

Bruce

On Wed, Jun 17, 2020 at 06:38 PM, Mark Fletcher wrote:

Please let me know if you have any questions or suggestions.

For those of us who own multiple groups, it would be helpful if the pushed notification included some indication of which group the update occurred.

Thanks,
Bruce

I'm behind the curve on this due to not being able to allow Notifications until a few minutes ago. So please excuse a few basic questions: Does
"sent to the group" in the #wiki notification mean the notification is sent as a message to the group? Will there be, or is there, a way for selected notifications to go to moderators only, as there is now for things like pending members? I certainly would not want my whole group notified every time I, or anyone else, edits a wiki page, and hope that all of these deliveries would be subject to options set by moderators.  I don't see any of these hashtags yet in my group and am wondering where they are (since they've been pushed), and I have reloaded since reconfiguring my FF and enabling notifications. So wonder whether I'm looking in the right place, and also I can't see how they can be edited. I hope to catch up on all of this quick.

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Mark,

I'm not sure whether you're still following the other thread on this, but since you're asking for suggestions: Thomas helped me determine that if you're private browsing in FF, that's when you get the "notifications not available on this browser" message. So if that can't be changed/fixed, I think the wording should at least be changed to reflect the reason, if possible. And if the reason is not immediately known in any individual case, I think there should be Help documentation to the effect that private browsing disables notifications.

Good question about what to do about 10 edits in a short period of time. Maybe there should be options for each kind of notification about whether to group them or not. I would not want individual notices for wiki edits by the same user, but I'd want them for photo uploads, for example.
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Hi All,

I just pushed the following changes:

• Creating or modifying a wiki page now generates a #wiki notification, sent to the group.
• Uploading photos to an album now generates #photo notification, sent to the group.
• The existing file notification now comes tagged with a #file hashtag.
• The Notify Members checkbox when uploading files is now checked by default, in preparation for removing it at some point.

Please let me know if you have any questions or suggestions. One thing I'm curious about is whether I need to aggregate these notifications if they are generated within a certain limited time period. That is, if someone does 10 edits of the same wiki page in 5 minutes, should those just generate one notification (after 5 minutes). This would cause a delay on when the notification is sent out while we wait to see if any more changes happen. I'm curious to know if that will be a common occurrence.

Thanks, Mark

Test notification worked.
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On Wed, Jun 17, 2020 at 02:56 PM, J_Catlady wrote:

I double-click on FF in the dock, it no longer allows me to open a new window from there.

I fixed this. Now I'm all set!
 
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On Wed, Jun 17, 2020 at 03:03 PM, J_Catlady wrote:

because it is set to not remember history

Or the real reason(?), "because it is set to private browsing." It's tricky because it seems that in FF, removing the "always private browsing" setting disallows "never remember history." So I'm not sure what's the most proximate cause of the failure.
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Mark,
If it's possible for groups.io to do, Ii.e., if the information is available, I would change "not available in this browser" statement to "not available in this browser because it is set to not remember history" if that's the case. This took several days to figure out and at various points, I was ready to give up and thought, ok, I just can't have notifications, so forget about it.
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Hi Shal,

On Wed, Jun 17, 2020 at 06:12 PM, Shal Farley wrote:

 

I agree that the bell icon is a commonly used method of altering users to notifications. I'm not sure it that would be classed as a push notification though ...

 

Correct, it is not the push notification - that's something separate.

Yes, it was sort of a rhetorical statement/question.

 

 

Presumably in the mobile app the push notifications would go to the device's notification display mechanism, whatever that is.

 

I would hope so too. The notifications from the mobile Chrome and Firefox browsers I have on my phone show in the same manner as all the other apps I have. Interestingly, if I login using the default Samsung mobile browser (Internet) and enable notifications for that, it gets listed as Android - Chrome on my Account > Notifications screen.

Cheers,
Andy

Thomas,

Yes, that was it! I had History set to "never remember history," which did not allow me to use custom settings for history. I instead checked "use custom settings" and sure enough, it had "always private" checked, which I unchecked. Now I can enable Notifications here. So it seems that in order to use groups.io notifications in FF, you have to enable history, at least in the current incarnation?

Unfortunately, though, doing this made it so that when I double-click on FF in the dock, it no longer allows me to open a new window from there.
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On Wed, Jun 17, 2020 at 02:47 PM, Thomas Gruber wrote:

the setting for always opening in private mode is here:

Thanks!!!! I thought I looked in every possible setting, but did not see that one. I'm again wondering whether the problem is my antique MacOS. I'll look again now.
 
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On Wed, Jun 17, 2020 at 02:45 PM, Andy Wedge wrote:

The only options in Firefox I checked were:

Thanks but that presupposes that groups.io even made the request, which, in my case, it didn't and is not listed there.
 
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Hi J,

On Wed, Jun 17, 2020 at 10:21 PM, J_Catlady wrote:

In the cogniscenti's esteemed opinions here, could any of the following be what's making groups.io say that my Firefox browser doesn't support notifications?

The only options in Firefox I checked were:



Apart from the Firefox config change to ensure the notifications were passed to the Windows Action Centre I haven't made changes.

Andy

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