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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 ·