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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 ·

Sign-Up Challenge Question 3 #suggestion

We're getting sign-up subscriptions to approve, but we don't have any way of seeing the person's real name, only their email. And even if we could, we wouldn't necessarily know whether they're a legit

By Steve Puffenberger ·

Event: Unscheduled downtime #outage - Monday, August 15, 2022 #outage #cal-invite

Unscheduled downtime #outage When: Monday, August 15, 2022 12:38am to 12:49am (UTC-07:00) America/Los Angeles View Event Description: The connection pooler service for our main database stopped accept

By Group Notification ·

Photo scaling on database images not working 2 #bug

I have the database set to scale photos to 1024x1024, but people are uploading huge pictures and slowing everything down. Is the scaling thing not working?

By Steve Puffenberger ·

Editing a pending message is not logged 2 #bug

NOT a big deal. But it probably ought to be fixed eventually: If a member who is new-member-moderated sends a message, and a moderator claims the message and edits the message and then approves it, th

By Andy I ·

Include old and new colours in Activity Log message #suggestion

Hi Mark, when the colour associated with a member changes, it is logged as follows on the Activity Log: Can we show the old and new colour in the message in the same way we do when an email address is

By Andy Wedge ·

Hotmail allows PMs in a group with private replies disabled if user selects "reply all" 52 #misc #bug

Despite the fact that our group has PMs disabled and replies go only go the group, a group member using hotmail through an iphone's mail program is able to PM members on a reply message if they select

By J_Catlady ·

# bugs Members getting error messages about group not existing. 4 #bug

Hi, I just came here to post this problem to see if there's a cure. A lot of my people on my list, both yahoo mail and gmail users, have gotten error messages while trying to reply to messages or send

By Catherine . ·

Merging multiple messages into one topic 3 #suggestion

I've been fully through the Owners Manual on this, and the multi-directional thread on "merge" but don't see the answer. Though I do see others who appear to have asked about it. In the Owners Manual,

By Dan Tucker ·

Site updates #changelog

Changes to the site this week: August 12, 2022: SYSADMIN: Increased the file descriptor limits for the pgbouncer process responsible for the main database in hopes that it fixes the problem that led t

By Mark Fletcher ·

Mark on vacation 5 #admin

Hi All, I am going to try to take the next four weeks off on vacation. That is, I most definitely will be taking the next two weeks off. And I am going to try to take the following two weeks off as we

By Mark Fletcher ·

Searching for "User Names" in Members 7 #suggestion

User profiles can have a "User Name". I don't know how significant it is. Its use appears to be limited to about three places: in Chats, in one's Profile ID (as in "https://groups.io/g/groupname/profi

By Andy I ·

Image Upload in Database Suddenly Quit 5 #bug

Users are trying to upload photos in a photo database field on our site. It was working until it wasn’t. Now one can drag/drop or select a photo in the field, but there’s no “upload” button. I have co

By Steve Puffenberger ·

Increased incidence of Groups.io mail being flagged as spam 4 #misc

Dear all, Has anyone else noticed this? A couple of groups I run have reported all their group mail being flagged as spam and my own personal Groups.io subscriptions are being treated the same way. An

By Nick Dunmur ·

Event: Unscheduled downtime #outage - Friday, August 12, 2022 #outage #cal-invite

Unscheduled downtime #outage When: Friday, August 12, 2022 5:42am to 5:54am (UTC-07:00) America/Los Angeles View Event Description: The connection pooler service for our main database stopped acceptin

By Group Notification ·

Extra member data 19 #releasenotes

Hi All, I just pushed the first iteration of the extra member data feature I mentioned a few weeks ago. Here are the details of this new feature: You can now specify new fields, similar to Database ta

By Mark Fletcher ·

Promoted events on cal-summary messages #suggestion

Hi Mark, as a group owner, I'd like the ability to have selected events appear at the top of the #cal-summary message to give them more prominence as 'promoted' (for want of a better word) events Rath

By Andy Wedge ·

Enable "Subject" column sorting in the "View Attachments" screen #suggestion

Hi Mark, The "View Attachments" screen offers sorting on a message's attachment total size or message sent date columns, but not the message subject column. It can be useful IMO to be able to also sor

By Christos Psarras ·

Merging accounts loses history info 3 #bug

Mark -- Not sure this is really a bug, but I don't know what else to call it. I merged two of my groups.io accounts late last week. We're currently moving to a different city, and trying to gather all

By Bruce Bowman ·

Groups.io logged me out without telling me, and lost my saved draft 21 #bug

Something odd happened a short while ago. I was editing a reply in a group, in the web interface. While doing that, I was also checking things (checking the web, etc.). So it took a while. But during

By Andy I ·

idea in the admin/subgroups 15 #suggestion

idea in the admin/subgroups add in a field next to name for date joined. that way we can sort by date joined in the sub groups. that way for the larger groups we can edit fast to join all sub groups.

By iowagold2020 ·

#suggestion Add option to create a hashtag that sends a message only to moderators 8 #suggestion

I have a suggestion for a feature. I would like there to be an option where when I am creating a hashtag, I can make it so if a member includffs that hashtag in the subject of their message, it only s

By Adrietta Woods ·

Site updates #changelog

Changes to the site this week: August 5, 2022: DOCS: Updates from Nina. Owners Manual Revision History, Members Manual Revision History. NEW: The Extra Member Data section on the Default Sub Settings

By Mark Fletcher ·

Subgroups are great but sometimes I just want distribution lists 20 #meta #suggestion

I am the president of an HOA and am using a paid groups.io subscription to manage communication and documentation for the association. Sometimes I would just like to create an email distribution list

By Dan Speck ·

#bug User names that have been changed are showing up as originally entered. 8 #bug

This groups is main@HelpingHandsCelebrate.groups.io I've attached 2 images (image 6.jpg) a snipette of the activity log where I changed a user's display name back in March and IMG_5073.jpg from the us

By Chris Kozel ·

Archived group sent calendar notice to unsubscribed person 3 #bug

https://lists.hyperledger.org/g/webinarsHi, One of our members got an email from an archived group. I've provided the raw email here: https://gist.github.com/ryjones/e00f4347976d1364258f22ee4d2ea4b6 S

By Ry Jones ·

Add numeric data type to database 23 #misc #suggestion

There is currently no numeric data type for database columns. For numeric data I use Single Line Text. This is troublesome when sorting. If the column data includes 1,2,3,10 it will sort as 1,10,2,3.

By Paul Lever ·

Peculiar behavior with member notices 2 #bug

This morning I removed 7 members only to discover that my member notices of type "Removed Member" and "Welcome" had both disappeared. There was no corresponding entry in the activity log. Half an hour

By Bruce Bowman ·

Group Guidelines #guidelines-notice

The beta group welcomes your participation. When you post messages to the group, please observe these guidelines: Hashtags are required for new topics. Members of this group can apply these hashtags:

By Group Notification ·

Site updates #changelog

Changes to the site this week: July 29, 2022: SYSADMIN: Upgraded kernels and software on several of the machines in the cluster. BUGFIX: Fix the admin statuspage.io API integration for easily creating

By Mark Fletcher ·

Add more obvious Groupname to group webpages 4 #suggestion

Something that bothers me, is that a group's name is not more visible on the webpages for a group; e.g. when one is viewing Messages, Files, Photos, etc. in a web browser. If I go to a group's webpage

By Andy I ·

Database search function stopped working 6 #bug

I’ve noticed the past few days, continuing today, that the Search function on the database has stopped working. No matter what I put it (names I know are there) it returns nothing. I use Firefox as my

By Terry Tegnazian ·

Allow message More/View Source to non-moderators, at least in groups where the message archive can be downloaded by normal users 32 #suggestion

I would like to suggest that it would make sense to allow the View Source entry in the More menu for messages, not just for moderators, but also for list members in the case where the list allows down

By Mike Beaton ·

Event: Unscheduled downtime #outage - Thursday, July 28, 2022 4 #outage #cal-invite

Unscheduled downtime #outage When: Thursday, July 28, 2022 5:52pm to 6:42pm (UTC-07:00) America/Los Angeles View Event Description: The connection pooler service for our main database stopped acceptin

By Group Notification ·

Short downtime this evening 4 #downtime

Hi All, I need to take the site down this evening to upgrade some of the database software. I expect the downtime to last only about 15 minutes. Email sent during this time will be queued up and sent

By Mark Fletcher ·

change in signature settings causes display name to revert to profile name 13 #bug

Suddenly, or recently, members' display names have been reverting to their profile names, and I keep having to change them back. I know that a change in a profile name is not logged in each group, and

By J_Catlady ·

Bug? Emoticons in Topic title even with Strip Attachments selected 8 #bug

Some newer member of our support group is putting emoticons in their Topic/Subject and they remain and are propagated into Digests and replies. But we have Strip attachments set which I thought inhibi

By Bob Bellizzi ·

Site updates 6 #changelog

Changes to the site this week: July 22, 2022: INTERNAL: Rolled out improvements to database search as part of the project to add extra member fields. July 21, 2022: BUGFIX: In certain instances, the c

By Mark Fletcher ·

Use calendar colour codes on Upcoming Events message 11 #suggestion

Hi Mark, the calendar provides the option to apply colour codes to different events and we use those to indicates different event types. These show up nicely on the different calendar views such as Mo

By Andy Wedge ·

Cannot enable notifications in Firefox 2 #bug

Hi Mark, I'm running Firefox 93.0 (64-bit) and Windows 10 and cannot enable notifications. When I click the 'Enable Notifications In This Browser' button it shows 'Windows - Firefox' in the list of no

By Andy Wedge ·

Group archive access 20 #suggestion

Is there any way to allow certain members to join a group but *not* have archive access? Emails would still go out to the member as per the usual setting, just no access to the message archives online

By Al ·

RSVP change 5 #bug

When someone with guests changes an RSVP from yes to no, the Attending count only drops by 1, not the guests who will also not be there. Anthony

By Anthony Angelo ·

Online message/FILES/PHOTOS upload attachment/file naming issues #bug

Hi Mark, We're allowed to use all "special" chars `~!@#$^&*()-_=+/|\[]{};<>.,:% when naming a Photo or File online. Some of those special chars are translated to an underscore when saving that file/ph

By Christos Psarras ·

#bug - Can't download photo from album 2 #bug

Hi All, Some others have said they also have a bug with trying to download photos in albums. I'm now experiencing it as well. When I click on the photo in the album, and then click on Download, I get

By Margo Seegrist ·

image attachment (name) 6 #bug

I have just worked out the solution to my rejections this morning ... I have been trying to send an attachment named: "4-Generation Fan Chart of Malcolm David Austen (1950- ).png" to one of my groups

By Malcolm Austen ·

Failed to load plugin: table from url https://groups.io/tinymce-4.7.13/plugins/table/plugin.min.js 3 #bug

Sorry, just was able to get a screen shot. Here's my dropbox link to is https://www.dropbox.com/s/m7f5q6zffszqkmz/Screenshot%202022-07-17%2019.23.15.png?dl=0 -- Bob Bellizzi FuchsFriends@groups.io onl

By Bob Bellizzi ·

"Faliled to load Pluging table from url 2 #bug

Pretty sure this is an intermittent bug. It's happened before over the past severl weeks but I tended to ignore it since I spend a lot of time debugging other stuff and often just have to soldier on t

By Bob Bellizzi ·

Site updates #changelog

Changes to the site this week: July 15, 2022: BUGFIX: Merging accounts with + aliases did not work. Discussion CHANGE: Newly uploaded photos will now have max gallery dimensions of 1024x1024, down fro

By Mark Fletcher ·

#bug owner-address unreachable from gmail 5 #bug

Hi there Recently I tried to send a message from my gmail-address to one of my own +owner@groups.io addresses, but it never arrived. Trying the same from my regular email it was delivered within a min

By ro-esp ·

Merging using +aliased addresses doesn't work 3 #bug

Hi Mark, I suspect this may have to do with using +alias addresses only, I did not test it with a "regular" address. I tried to merge account+alias2 --> account+alias1, and when the Merge screen comes

By Christos Psarras ·