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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 ·

Signature placement driving me crazy again - redux 33 #suggestion #misc

I griped about this years ago, and probably more than once, and then finally gave up. Now it is driving me and some of my group members crazy again: Why can't the signature be treated as part of the m

By Janet_Catlady ·

Deleted Row moderator notifications not working #bug

Hi Mark, one of the Mods on one of my subgroups added and deleted rows from a table earlier today. I received an email notification (via the combiner) but it only contained the Added Row entries. The

By Andy Wedge ·

subgroups update icon #bug

In the subgroups tab, I was adding a few people to various subgroups and clicked update. The yes button surprisingly has a trash can icon, which suggests the exact reverse of what I was doing. Perhaps

By Glenn Glazer ·

Member subscription colors 10 #update

Hi All, You can now assign colors to member subscriptions. In the Members page, there's a new 'Set Color' Action option, and on individual member pages, you can also set an individual member's subscri

By Mark Fletcher ·

Site updates #changelog

Changes to the site this week: May 26, 2022: CHANGE: For new subscriptions to subgroups, if the subgroup does not have a default color set, the color of the parent group is used. DOCS: Updates from Ni

By Mark Fletcher ·

A Special Notice hashtag can be used by anyone, including non-members 5 #misc

Hi All, I posted this as a #misc as I'm not 100% sure what to make of it. Right now an admin can set a hashtag as Special so a message with it gets emailed out as special notice. The thing is though,

By Christos Psarras ·

Internal color handling 4 #update

Hi All, I have changed how we handle colors internally. This will not affect the majority of you. Where it will be seen is in the API and in any exported JSON files (when you export a group or a datab

By Mark Fletcher ·

Option to discard or cancel poll #suggestion

I don't see any option to discard a draft of a poll, or delete it, or cancel it, whatever you want to call it. It seems like that would be a good addition. Right now, it seems you just exit without po

By Janet_Catlady ·

"Reply to Sender" Anomaly 7 #bug

I have been providing some assistance to the Moderator of another Group (of which I am a member) following the decision to find a means of stopping a degree of misuse by some members. The Group is one

By Chris Jones ·

Group owner, member of Beta, my messages to you are not appearing 4 #misc

I have sent two messages to this group saying that two owners of the K9KidneyDiet group were not getting notifications of memberships and messages needing approval. Neither of my messages to this grou

By Susan B ·

Site updates #changelog

Changes to the site this week: May 20, 2022: API: New default_color parameter for the /updategroup endpoint. API: New color parameter for the /updatemember endpoint. NEW: When editing an existing data

By Mark Fletcher ·

#Bug Pending Message Issue 11 #bug

I am the Moderator of the Sew It’s For Sale buying and selling group. Before I start, keep in mind it works a lot different from a regular discussion type group. Duane and I have gone back and forth w

By Judy F. ·

Notification from name change 12 #update

Hi All, Previously, most group notifications were sent with the From name being "(group email address) Notification", like: From: main@beta.groups.io Notification noreply@groups.io I have changed that

By Mark Fletcher ·

Change table owner 4 #suggestion

Hi, Mark. We have a neighborhood directory database that that is viewable by members, but editable only by a moderator or the table owner. The person maintaining/editing it will change from time to ti

By Pete Cook ·

Customized bounce message 2 #suggestion

I received a complaint from the IT department of a group user. As with most IT departments, they have been training their users to be suspicious of emails that ask them to click links. They (and their

By Dan Barnette ·

Signifying +owner messages 22 #suggestion

Hi All, Right now, messages to the +owner address are forwarded on to moderators with just the group subject tag added to the subject of the message, without any other identifying information. This ha

By Mark Fletcher ·

Missing email notifications again, about Files? 11 #bug

I think this happened a few months ago too. Why is it happening again? Did it happen because of the changes made tonight to the "From" address in group notifications? Earlier this evening, a group mem

By Andy ·

Deleting my message took me to the main topics screen #misc

Hi Mark, There was some kind of ID10T-type glitch on my end with Tbird which resulted in me sending two duplicate messages to the "Signifying +owner messages" topic, #32201 & #32202. I deleted the fir

By Christos Psarras ·

Cannot uploade file w/o using mouse #bug

I believe I have found a rare instance of the groups.io user interface being inaccessible to the blind or visually impaired. Description: Items on Files->New/Upload menu cannot be activated without mo

By Jack Heim ·