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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 ·

Polls table readability #suggestion

Referring to the "See Who Responded" table (sorted by Answer): For polls that have a lot of answers and a lot of respondents it is difficult to keep track of particular columns while scrolling to the

By Drew ·

Email Address change 7 #suggestion

As much as I dislike verification procedures, it might be worthwhile to have a second step to verify an email address that is entered when changing it. On GMF, we've had at least 3 people make a typo

By Duane ·

Allow subscribers to email poll respondents #suggestion

Unless I have missed it, only owners (and poll authors?) can conveniently email poll respondents. It would be very useful if we had the ability to allow subscribers to do the same; i.e., any subscribe

By Drew ·

Cannot change cover photo 3 #bug

I can't seem to be able to change the cover photo on my group: https://groups.io/g/o14/coverphoto I have tried a jpeg and png - the size is 681x489. I am allowed to select the file to upload and it ch

By John C ·

wrong navigation from past members list (goes back to members list) #bug

After doing something in a past member's record and saving, you're taken not back to the past members list but to the members list. So to go back into the record you have to manually navigate to the p

By J_Catlady ·

Bug in hashtags - Online only messages appear in summaries and save and send to group sends to group - even though tags set as "online only" 4 #bug

Hi, I have created a tag that is for "online only" I created a confidential post that needed to stay online only, its needed to stay inside the group. I was editing and saving loads. The last save I d

By Mo ·

"Find or Create a Group" page does not do what it looks like it was designed to do 15 #bug

After all the discussion in two other threads about the problems with the "by name" search, I have come to conclusion that the intention of the search page was good, and consisted of precisely what I'

By J_Catlady ·

Calendar shows different times for a meeting 10 #bug

Hi, At least one of our groups has a weird calendar issue: the time shown for events is different between refreshes. Karen has recorded a video showing several issues. I was able to recreate the flip-

By Ry Jones ·

Directory page not displaying properly 2 #bug

The Directory page is no longer displaying the blue menu bar at the top of the page. Looks like a missing server-side #include. In addition, those using infinite scroll are reporting an inability to n

By Bruce Bowman ·

#suggestion Group calendar shows all events from subgroups you are a member of #suggestion

Like https://groups.io/calendar but filtered to only the subgroups on https://glaarg-vec.groups.io/g/glaarg-vec/calendar for example.

By Alwin ·

#bug Cover photo check box 3 #bug

I noticed today that when I un-check the box that says "cover photo" beneath one of the photos in an album, and then click on "update", it does not update and the photo still remains the cover photo o

By Annick Phillips ·

Member changing from Special Notices to Following Only stays on Special Notices #bug #suggestion

I'm calling this a design bug. The log in my group shows that a member changed to Special Notices, and afterwards, changed to Following Only. I believe she thought that the second change would result

By J_Catlady ·

What is the algorithm for the display order of groups after entering a keyword search? 65 #misc

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

By J_Catlady ·

Site updates 7 #changelog

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

By Mark Fletcher ·

How to make your group findable. 8 #misc

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

By Curt Gowan ·

Site updates #changelog

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

By Mark Fletcher ·

Invitation email misdirection 2 #bug

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

By Curt Gowan ·

Tell members why the Directory only shows them some other members 3 #suggestion

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

By Shal Farley ·

Group Search Sort Options? 4 #suggestion

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

By Patty Sliney ·