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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 ·

Disallow concurrent "special notices" and "following only" 17 #suggestion #bug

I'm calling this a bug because I consider it a bug (an unintended consequence) in the UI. It is currently possible for members of a group to have email delivery set to Special Notices and advanced pre

By J_Catlady ·

Owner box in photos being changed by members 10 #bug

Hi Mark, sometime ago a bug notice was submitted for this issue. Maybe it got lost in the shuffle. Here's what is happening. This is on the Sew It's For Sale group. When members are posting photos and

By Judy F. ·

Report File -- "Content flagged as objectionable" #suggestion

There is a feature to Report File by clicking the flag icon next to the filename. It sends a message ("Content flagged as objectionable") from Groups.io to each owner/moderator. We recently saw a file

By Andy ·

Subject line of messages in Activity section 8 #bug

When a member sends a message to the owner it shows up in the Activity section with a link to see the message. I usually use that to reply to those messages, hitting the reply button at the bottom of

By debbie ·

Generic link type 5 #suggestion

Last summer Mark added links in the files sections, with type of Google Drive/Docs, Dropbox, Box, or Microsoft Onedrive. Each link type has a nice icon to go with it representive of the service. One g

By Gilbert Coville ·

Very minor #bug on subgroup Direct Add page 2 #bug

While looking at some things this morning, I noticed that on the subgroupdirectadd page (Admin > Direct Add of subgroup), the second column is headed Eame instead of Email. You can probably fix this o

By Duane ·

Unable to set web notifications in Firefox mobile #bug

Hi Mark, following on from my last post about this I can no longer set notifications on Firefox mobile on my Android phone. When I try to enable them, I see the 'Send A Test Notification' button but i

By Andy Wedge ·

#bug Infinite Scroll in Photo Albums not working again 2 #bug

I see this topic was address in Dec 2020 with a reply from Mark to say it was fixed. I have just loaded 41 photos into an album but only 20 show and there is no way to scroll or go to the next page? M

By Pamela Tatt ·

Periods in subgroup name? 5 #bug

Someone on GMF reported creating a subgroup with periods in the name (e.g. my.sub.group). I was about to say that they couldn't, so had to test and found that they seem to work. The documentation says

By Duane ·

Cannot change wiki page edit permission 3 #bug

For some reason I can no longer change edit permissions for wiki pages on a page-by-page basis. See screenshot. Regards, Bruce

By Bruce Bowman ·

Clarify when topic 'reply to' option is changed back to 'group setting' #suggestion

Hi Mark, when the 'reply to' settings are changed for a topic an Activity Log entry is made showing the topic name and what the setting has been changed to, except when changing to use the group setti

By Andy Wedge ·

New setting: moderate messages containing links 3 #suggestion

My group has strong restrictions on what kinds of links can be posted. I don’t know how feasible it would be, but an ability (in an unmoderated group) to moderate any message containing a link would b

By J_Catlady ·

Poll participation by non-account holders 21 #suggestion

We recently posted a poll to our group but response was limited by the fact that many don't have group.io accounts and don't want to bother creating one. One off my winning arguments for using a maili

By Tom U ·

Open Help Centre in new window #suggestion

Hi Mark, if you're working on the Groups.io site and want to refer to the manuals, clicking Help defaults to opening the help centre in the current browser window/tab meaning you lose focus on what yo

By Andy Wedge ·

#suggestion Need to permit different email addresses for group joining 6 #suggestion

Many people like to use different email addresses for different groups. Under Yahoo groups, We could join a group and then state the address we preferred to use for that specific group. I have search

By judy Warden ·

Can you clarify the long-term status of "legacy" groups? 2 #suggestion

I'm one of the owners of this group https://groups.io/g/HP-Agilent-Keysight-equipment we have 4,708 members, and since we are using more than 1 GB of disk space, we are paying for the "Premium" packag

By David Kirkby ·

Make mouse pointer consistent on +New button in Files section #suggestion

Hi Mark, On Groups.io the mouse pointer arrow changes to a hand pointer except when selecting options from the +New button in the Files section. Can we standardise please? Thanks Andy

By Andy Wedge ·

search results /members page shows stale data after user edit #bug

Under certain circumstances, after editing a user's data and then clicking Save, the previous versions of the user data will display on the /members page. To reproduce: 1. Go to the /members page of a

By Dan Halbert ·

custom colors don't work in direct add custom message 3 #bug

When constructing a custom message as part of a direct add, one can change the color of the font or font background using this widget: Selecting a pre-selected color from the upper part of the widget

By Glenn Glazer ·