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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 ·

Open Help Centre in new window #suggestion

Hi Mark, if you're working on the Groups.io site and want to refer to the manuals, clicking Help defaults to opening the help centre in the current browser window/tab meaning you lose focus on what yo

By Andy Wedge ·

#suggestion Need to permit different email addresses for group joining 6 #suggestion

Many people like to use different email addresses for different groups. Under Yahoo groups, We could join a group and then state the address we preferred to use for that specific group. I have search

By judy Warden ·

Poll participation by non-account holders 20 #suggestion

We recently posted a poll to our group but response was limited by the fact that many don't have group.io accounts and don't want to bother creating one. One off my winning arguments for using a maili

By Tom U ·

Can you clarify the long-term status of "legacy" groups? 2 #suggestion

I'm one of the owners of this group https://groups.io/g/HP-Agilent-Keysight-equipment we have 4,708 members, and since we are using more than 1 GB of disk space, we are paying for the "Premium" packag

By David Kirkby ·

Generic link type #suggestion

Last summer Mark added links in the files sections, with type of Google Drive/Docs, Dropbox, Box, or Microsoft Onedrive. Each link type has a nice icon to go with it representive of the service. One g

By Gilbert Coville ·

Make mouse pointer consistent on +New button in Files section #suggestion

Hi Mark, On Groups.io the mouse pointer arrow changes to a hand pointer except when selecting options from the +New button in the Files section. Can we standardise please? Thanks Andy

By Andy Wedge ·

Subject line of messages in Activity section 7 #bug

When a member sends a message to the owner it shows up in the Activity section with a link to see the message. I usually use that to reply to those messages, hitting the reply button at the bottom of

By debbie ·

New setting: moderate messages containing links #suggestion

My group has strong restrictions on what kinds of links can be posted. I don’t know how feasible it would be, but an ability (in an unmoderated group) to moderate any message containing a link would b

By J_Catlady ·

search results /members page shows stale data after user edit #bug

Under certain circumstances, after editing a user's data and then clicking Save, the previous versions of the user data will display on the /members page. To reproduce: 1. Go to the /members page of a

By Dan Halbert ·

custom colors don't work in direct add custom message 3 #bug

When constructing a custom message as part of a direct add, one can change the color of the font or font background using this widget: Selecting a pre-selected color from the upper part of the widget

By Glenn Glazer ·

#suggestion Moderators should be able to Reply to or Forward a message of 'importance' and tag it "Special Interest" in the process 5 #suggestion

A message created by anyone but a Moderator cannot be sent as "Special Notice". And, in many Groups, some members only want to receive/know about Special Notices - they aren't really interested in dai

By Dan Tucker - FireTuck ·

Owner box in photos being changed by members 8 #bug

Hi Mark, sometime ago a bug notice was submitted for this issue. Maybe it got lost in the shuffle. Here's what is happening. This is on the Sew It's For Sale group. When members are posting photos and

By Judy F. ·

Samuel's Paid User Proposal 218 #suggestion

Hi All, Thank you all for the vigorous but respectful discussion on the planned pricing changes. I'd like to discuss Samuel's proposal for paid users, as outlined here: https://beta.groups.io/g/main/m

By Mark Fletcher ·

Site updates #changelog

Changes to the site this week: INTERNAL: Work on stopping spam accounts and spam groups as well as deletion of many existing spam accounts and groups. DOCS: Updates from Nina. CHANGE: Ensure that if a

By Mark Fletcher ·

Moderator control for sponsorship notifications 2 #suggestion

Hi Mark, Can we get an extra option in the Moderator Notifications panel to control the sponsorship notifications in the same manner as others please? [Note: I did mention this previously but it may h

By Andy Wedge ·

Include group subject tag on sponsorship notification emails #suggestion

Hi Mark, Can we get the group subject tag included as a prefix to the sponsorship notification emails so that it matches other notifications please? [Note: I did mention this previously but it may hav

By Andy Wedge ·

#bug event times in /feed are all 8 hours out 22 #bug

I think I have covered all possible option settings and searched adequately for past [beta] reports ... Events show in the calendar display just fine but in the /feed display, they all show eight hour

By Malcolm Austen ·

banned spamming email address attempted message logged as coming from "unconfirmed member" 3 #bug

A couple of days ago, my group logged an obviously spam attempted message from nonmember email address X. I immediately banned the address. This morning there was another log entry from the same addre

By J_Catlady ·

Filter Activity Log by Sent Special Notice 2 #suggestion

Hi Mark, the Actions drop-down field to filter the Activity Log allows 'Sent message' and 'Sent message requiring approval'. Could we add 'Sent special notice' to that list please? Thanks Andy

By Andy Wedge ·