Mark, In "Find or Create a Group," if you enter a search term, what is the algorithm for the display order? I can't discern any pattern. Thanks. -- J Messages are the sole opinion of the author, espec

Changes to the site this week: CHANGE: Guidelines sent monthly will now have the hashtag #guidelines-notice. CHANGE: Monthly notices will now have the hashtag #monthly-notice. BUGFIX: Notification mes

Made some quick tests with my "crash test dummy" group. The bad news: Groups that have every one of the requested list of search words in the group name or description are displayed in reverse alpha o

Changes to the site the last two weeks: DOCS: Updates from Nina. NEW: Added a confirmation dialog when saving a photo edit and moved the Notify Members checkbox into it, for hobgoblins. NEW: Added a c

If a group owner invites someone who has a gmail address, they get this friendly, well-worded email: --------------------- Invitation to join the <GroupName>.groups.io group Hello, You have been invit

Mark, It's a FAQ in GMF and Group_Help: "My group members report that in the Directory they only see (some small number) of the (some large number of) members. Why?" At the top, the Directory page say

I noticed in doing a Groups search, there's no Sort options, to re-sort your search results. Would be nice to be able to sort by best match/relevancy, newest, oldest, # of members, # of messages. Patt

Hi, I manage some groups at Yahoogroups but we need to find another plateform to host our mailing list. We need to find something with a french interface (some member are quit old and don't speak engl

The member directory search function fails to find a match when the member name in the directory is an email address and the person doing the search is not a moderator. It failed for both partial matc

Adding a line space or two at end of each individual email message as it goes out, before footer. Will make it easier to read message.

Our group used to have a Cats database and we eventually got rid of it. Our Database tab shows "no tables." Yet under Billing, we are still being dec'd by some amount of space for "Database Images." M

This happens only when a user follows a new (to them) topic, which tells the Architect to email right away the OP post and any existing replies to the member so they can catch-up if needed, at least f

There seems to be a bug in the database time fields... If I add a record that has time fields in it, then go back and edit the same record and don't change the time fields, they are saved blank/empty.

Hi Mark, I thought this had been discussed, yet can't find it. I've paid for my co-owned group since transferring from Yahoo. I'm about to undergo some serious surgery and would like to prepay for 5 y

Some of the settings in the Message Formatting block are mutually exclusive. For example, you can check the box for "Force HTML Emails" and also check the box for "Plain Text Only," and save your sett

When paging through the results of the various views in the groups directory, there comes a point when it won't show the next page. It always happens when crossing over the 10,000 results line. As an

Not really a bug, but I don't know what else to call it. The page at https://groups.io/static/compare shows that Photos and Files are limited to 100MB on the Basic plan. Since neither feature is actua

Since only moderators can post in Announcement-Only groups, I suggest removing the Reply To and New Topic links from the footer of email messages for these groups. Of course members could still use th

I noticed today that it doesn't appear that photos are being resized properly when uploaded. Best I can tell, the uploaded photo is stored at the original size and the displayed photo for editing is s

while talking to lb01.groups.io.: >>> RCPT To:<arch-econ@groups.io> <<< 500 Invalid request, no reverse DNS for 148.163.139.74 554 5.0.0 Service unavailable 451 4.4.1 reply: read error from lb01.group