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New Group Charter 16 #admin

Hi All, This is the new charter for the main beta group. This message outlines how I've changed the set up and would like to run the group going forward. This group now requires topics to be tagged wi

Hi All, This is the new charter for the main beta group. This message outlines how I've changed the set up and would like to run the group going forward. This group now requires topics to be tagged with a hashtag. These are the currently available hashtags for users: #bug #meta #misc #suggestion You can see their descriptions by going to the Hashtags page. There are additional hashtags, but they are set for moderator use only. If you want to post something and are not sure which hashtag to use or there isn't an appropriate hashtag, use #misc, and I will fix it. But please try to use the existing hashtags whenever possible, as I will be limiting the total number of hashtags. #meta is the tag to use when making suggestions about this group. During cleanup, I combined some of old hashtags into the new hashtags, but mostly I deleted them as they didn't directly fit into the new scheme. This group is now set so that all new topics are moderated. Therefore, expect a delay before your post shows up if it creates a new topic. Please let me know if you have any questions. Thanks, Mark

By Mark Fletcher ·

Announcement in other moderator groups? 4

Are you interested in announcing groups.io, and this beta group, in the other moderator groups on Yahoo? If you'd rather that happen "organically" there's enough overlap in membership of these groups

By Shal Farley ·

Unsubscribing from hashtags is unintuitive 2

Instead of unsubscribing by clicking on Subscription and seeing the option under that tab, you have to click on Groups.IO, then select muted hashtags

By Chris Leong ·

Subs and home pages 2

One page that's been missing is a page displaying all your subscriptions. Here is a first pass: https://groups.io/subs You can sort, but you can't change any subscriptions/unsubscribe yet. Please le

By Mark Fletcher ·

Discovering new groups 3

I just created a group for people to announce new groups that they've created as an alternative discovery mechanism. https://groups.io/org/groupsio/new-groups

By Chris Leong ·

Pricing changes

Hi All, I've just pushed to the live site the changes to the pricing model that I mentioned last week. This means that free groups can now have private archives and can be unlisted. It also means tha

By Mark Fletcher ·

Membership options 2

Hi Mark, Thanks for creating this alternative email exchange service. I created a group and asked a few friends to join so we could kick the tires. A couple of issues. Members require approval to

By monamouroui ·

Feature suggestion: Group calendar 4

Hi All, I suggest this with some trepidation, as I know that calendars are just about the canonical example of the "how hard can it be?" fallacy. Closer to the "research team and five years" end of t

By Shal Farley ·

Welcome 10

Hello, There have been several new subscribers to beta in the last couple of days. If you're one of them, welcome! I'm always looking for feedback about groups.io. Did you have any issues registering

By Mark Fletcher ·

A review of Groups.io 3

Hi Mark, I really like your service, so I just wrote up a review. https://medium.com/a-future-together/groups-io-a-modern-take-on-google-groups-83dd0a007b84 In terms of suggestions: Discovery mec

By Chris Leong ·

Business model changes 7

Hey All, After gathering a lot of feedback, and doing a lot of thinking, I've decided to make some changes. I hope you'll like them. Here's what I'm considering: there will be two types of groups, Ba

By Mark Fletcher ·

questions 5

my co-owner and I have discussed opening a group here, but I have a few questions. First off, I hope it is allowed to have 2 group owners. We would like to open a group which is not private in that

By Cherrill ·

Join flow 3

Join (using an email address never before registered) 1) After Email Delivery asks for email address and password. It isn't clear whether filling in these is to login or to register. Evidently eith

By Shal Farley ·

A suggestion... 2

So I'm in the kick the tire stage. My Yahoo group has about 1700 folks, and I suspect that the free version is probably adequate. One obstacle is getting all those members over to the new site witho

By Steve ·

Well... 2

So I created a group, put up a post without a hashtag (in my settings I said one was required), and hit post, etc. I thought it posted. Then I get an email saying I didn't include a hashtag and gives

By Steve ·

Help Center 4

All, I've started putting together a help center. It's at https://groupsio.zendesk.com/hc Please let me know if you have any suggestions for things I can add or any other way it can be improved. I'

By Mark Fletcher ·

trimming and e-mail 12

Hi, I'm new here. the archive looks pretty "clean", but how does it work in email? Is there an option to use the traditional interspersing quoting ( http://www.learn.to/quote )? Is there an autotrim

By ro-esp ·

Tuesday site changes #changelog

I'm going to start posting what changes have been made to the site. I'll do so under the hashtag #updates, so if you're not interested in the minutia, you can mute it. Changes to the site today: The

By Mark Fletcher ·

suggestion: private hashtags 4 #suggestion

Not sure this is the spot for feature suggestions, but I find myself needing... A way to message a sub-set of the group (leaders) privately from the larger general members. I realize I could set up a

By Derek Shanahan ·

Inbox, Archive and muting 2

Hi Mark, I have a question or two about the way Groups.io works. There seems to be two views for messages - an Inbox for all groups I belong to (Home), and a screen for each group I belong to. (from

By Frances ·