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Make Sticky Topic show at top of Messages view
#suggestion
I'm also in favor of consistency. I observe that when a change like this is made, user behavior changes also: moderators will get better at trimming top-heavy clusters of stickies and become more judi
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I'm also in favor of consistency. I observe that when a change like this is made, user behavior changes also: moderators will get better at trimming top-heavy clusters of stickies and become more judi
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· #26048
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Changes to new basic groups
#update
From day one of my awareness of groups.io. I have been troubled by sustainability of its business model. During my career in software development I saw good products fail when finance directors insist
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From day one of my awareness of groups.io. I have been troubled by sustainability of its business model. During my career in software development I saw good products fail when finance directors insist
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Marv Waschke
· #25923
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Drafts policy change
#update
I would be glad to see drafts automatically purged. My drafts older than a day or so are just clutter to remember to delete. For what it's worth, I keep snips of text that I want to reuse in group mes
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I would be glad to see drafts automatically purged. My drafts older than a day or so are just clutter to remember to delete. For what it's worth, I keep snips of text that I want to reuse in group mes
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Marv Waschke
· #24795
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Digest sent before member accepted
#bug
I just noticed Duane's comment on Time Zones. The digest was sent across the international date line. Could that have affected the digest sending logic? Best, Marv
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I just noticed Duane's comment on Time Zones. The digest was sent across the international date line. Could that have affected the digest sending logic? Best, Marv
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Marv Waschke
· #24681
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Digest sent before member accepted
#bug
On April 4, a user requested membership to our restricted, private archive group, received our standard reply asking for more information. Before replying, the as yet non-member received a message dig
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On April 4, a user requested membership to our restricted, private archive group, received our standard reply asking for more information. Before replying, the as yet non-member received a message dig
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Marv Waschke
· #24680
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Process to propose new features
#meta
Mark-- If your goal is to induce some order on the suggestion process, i.e. consolidate duplicate or similar ideas, reduce the number of suggestions that have been hashed through in the past, and gene
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Mark-- If your goal is to induce some order on the suggestion process, i.e. consolidate duplicate or similar ideas, reduce the number of suggestions that have been hashed through in the past, and gene
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Marv Waschke
· #23920
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Slow email delivery
Growing pains! Best, Marv
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Growing pains! Best, Marv
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Marv Waschke
· #23629
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Feature requests/Canny after two weeks
Canny is a nice interface, but, for me, it makes keeping up with groups.io more difficult because it is yet another thing to monitor. Using hashtags in beta to separate new feature requests, bugs, etc
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Canny is a nice interface, but, for me, it makes keeping up with groups.io more difficult because it is yet another thing to monitor. Using hashtags in beta to separate new feature requests, bugs, etc
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Marv Waschke
· #23403
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Open Source?
Highly recommend open sourcing. The company I worked for open-sourced several products that I worked on. We saw no dips in revenue and it made the products more salable. These were enterprise service
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Highly recommend open sourcing. The company I worked for open-sourced several products that I worked on. We saw no dips in revenue and it made the products more salable. These were enterprise service
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Marv Waschke
· #22269
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suggestion - Consistency (ies)
Memory, storage, processor cycles, and bandwidth are all cheaper than dirt compared to the last century. But screen real estate in these days of pocket computers, is still precious. "Post" is shorter
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Memory, storage, processor cycles, and bandwidth are all cheaper than dirt compared to the last century. But screen real estate in these days of pocket computers, is still precious. "Post" is shorter
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Marv Waschke
· #22114
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Web-only group
#suggestion
Way back, I suggested a "flying lawnmower" analogy. The discussion has ranged so widely, I'm not sure what this is, but I will go back and say that a simple implementation may be useful for some group
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Way back, I suggested a "flying lawnmower" analogy. The discussion has ranged so widely, I'm not sure what this is, but I will go back and say that a simple implementation may be useful for some group
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Marv Waschke
· #21417
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Group home page redesign
This is a bit late. As a general principle, I think hashtags are a good feature, but for some groups, they are an unnecessary complication and best not used. When one of my groups moved to groups.io,
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This is a bit late. As a general principle, I think hashtags are a good feature, but for some groups, they are an unnecessary complication and best not used. When one of my groups moved to groups.io,
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Marv Waschke
· #21407
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Paid vs free policy- request
First, Mark can run his business any way he wants to as long as he does not break the law. Groups.io is a business, not a public service or even, as far as I know, a non-profit. As many people have po
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First, Mark can run his business any way he wants to as long as he does not break the law. Groups.io is a business, not a public service or even, as far as I know, a non-profit. As many people have po
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· #21243
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Need help figuring out a policy on this
I suggest that there is nothing that can be done to the platform (groups.io) that will prevent hijacking when trust deteriorates between co-owners. Who is the "true" owner of a group? That is a pact b
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I suggest that there is nothing that can be done to the platform (groups.io) that will prevent hijacking when trust deteriorates between co-owners. Who is the "true" owner of a group? That is a pact b
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Marv Waschke
· #21221
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New feature: donations
I don't think any of my groups are likely to use a donations service, but I think about it like this: every service is paid for in some way. Free Google services are paid for by scanning searches and
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I don't think any of my groups are likely to use a donations service, but I think about it like this: every service is paid for in some way. Free Google services are paid for by scanning searches and
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Marv Waschke
· #21118
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User-friendly message rejection after attempt to post to a locked thread
#suggestion
I should add that I fully defer to the arguments that locked threads are necessary and a user friendly response is desirable, but I won't endorse a solution that relaxes security because Groups.io is
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I should add that I fully defer to the arguments that locked threads are necessary and a user friendly response is desirable, but I won't endorse a solution that relaxes security because Groups.io is
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Marv Waschke
· #21082
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User-friendly message rejection after attempt to post to a locked thread
#suggestion
I will stick to my opposition to "security by obscurity" because I've seen too much. I've been writing code and designing systems since the late 60s. I have heard the "you don't need Fort Knox..." arg
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I will stick to my opposition to "security by obscurity" because I've seen too much. I've been writing code and designing systems since the late 60s. I have heard the "you don't need Fort Knox..." arg
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Marv Waschke
· #21069
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User-friendly message rejection after attempt to post to a locked thread
#suggestion
Forgive me if I am missing something, but groups that want to avoid ugly bounce messages could put topics under moderation instead of locking the topics. Wouldn't that be an effective workaround that
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Forgive me if I am missing something, but groups that want to avoid ugly bounce messages could put topics under moderation instead of locking the topics. Wouldn't that be an effective workaround that
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Marv Waschke
· #21060
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Why isn't there a "don't like" option, in addition to the "like" option?
I'll go even farther. The groups I work with go a long way to encourage people to express their thoughts on the subjects under discussion. The moderators try hard to express appreciation for everyone
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I'll go even farther. The groups I work with go a long way to encourage people to express their thoughts on the subjects under discussion. The moderators try hard to express appreciation for everyone
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Marv Waschke
· #20894
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Anonymous suggestion box
#suggestion
I've worked on a lot of software projects, used, designed, developed, presided over a lot of different defect/suggestion systems. How well they work seems to depend more on the people who use them tha
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I've worked on a lot of software projects, used, designed, developed, presided over a lot of different defect/suggestion systems. How well they work seems to depend more on the people who use them tha
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Marv Waschke
· #20865
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