main@beta.groups.io

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 ·

Notification from name change 10 #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 ·

Site updates #changelog

Changes to the site this week: May 13, 2022: DOCS: Updates from Nina. Owners Manual Revision History, Members Manual Revision History. CHANGE: When uploading a directory, if one of the files was an im

By Mark Fletcher ·

#misc Bad bounces 5 #misc

I have been trying to investigate posts *to* (not from) groups.io that are bouncing. I was initially getting a HELO error but after changing some settings in postfix (mail agent running on Debian 10),

By Al ·

Missing email notifications again, about Files? 3 #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 ·

"message edit approval" notice sent when edit was saved but not send 3 #bug

This morning I did a "save not send" edit of a message by deleting its attachments. The message was successfully edited in the archives but, confusingly, I received a "message edit approval" notice. A

By Janet_Catlady ·

No "Add Pictures" icon in wiki editor 4 #bug

Wiki photos count against group quota, so obviously they are allowed. I can paste a photo into a wiki page from my clipboard, but there is no Add Pictures icon on the wiki editor's menu bar. Has it al

By Bruce Bowman ·

Drafts completely disappearing 16 #bug

This is a bad one and I've noticed it over the past week or so. I compose a very detailed draft, go outside of the draft to look something up (I am NOT using the back arrow), and when I come back to t

By Janet_Catlady ·

Signature being included when the option is not checked 2 #bug

Hi Mark, I've just started a new topic via the website for a suggestion and my signature text was included in the message even though the option for this is not currently checked on my Beta subscripti

By Andy Wedge ·

Drafts 9 #suggestion

I am offering two suggestions to maybe(*) improve the Drafts function in Groups.io. 1. When someone starts a message online in the web interface but isn't finished, it is saved in Drafts. After severa

By Andy ·

Show end dates and times for events in the Upcoming Events message #suggestion

Hi Mark, in the Upcoming Events messages, the start and end times are shown for an event that occurs within a single day, such as: When: Sunday, May 22, 2022, 9:00am to 4:30pm (GMT +1:00) Europe/Londo

By Andy Wedge ·

Display name change not always recorded in Activity Log 2 #bug

Hi Mark, I've seen that some members change their display name but on occasions, there is no entry in the activity log for this. I have just figured out that if you reset a group profile and that rese

By Andy Wedge ·

Highlight to reply in plain text group 6 #bug

I just noticed this, so don't know when it popped in. On a plain text only group, if I highlight text to be included in a reply, it doesn't show up. The "Quote Whole Post" icon/button doesn't work eit

By Duane ·

File ownership #suggestion

Suggested changes to File ownership, in the Files section of groups. By "Ownership", I mean the name in the "Uploaded By" column when viewing a list of files. 1. When a member who had previously uploa

By Andy ·

Weird topic-locking behavior in a particular group 4 #misc #bug

Hi Mark, Something weird may have gotten inadvertently introduced today, this just happened on a group of mine. It almost looks like the system locked-topic notice gets sent or posted to the group as

By Christos Psarras ·

Erroneous activity log entry when using TopicProperties method to lock/unlock a topic 2 #bug

Hi Mark, I was doing a bit more testing today regarding that locking & group notice error and one of the times I went back to unlock the test topic I went to Topic Properties instead of the usual dire

By Christos Psarras ·

More granular permissions 8 #suggestion

(starting a new topic) I'm happy to suspend work on moderate-all-the-things to focus on improve permissions, but we need to decide what that would look like. I'm hearing two different permissions-rela

By Mark Fletcher ·

Photo album improvements 2 #suggestion

There are many thing to like about GIO's photo tools, including the rotation tool. Many images in the group I help manage arrive as mail attachments. Moving them to albums is convoluted; download, the

By David ·

Request to limit new photo album creation to moderators 15 #suggestion

It would be so helpful to be able to moderate who can create new albums. There is no way to stop every member from willy nilly adding albums, resulting in duplicates and even inappropriate albums. Ple

By Ginny T. ·

Photo rotation #suggestion

I've been cleaning up decades of photo albums brought over from Youknowhere. I love the fact I can rotate them to be upright, but it takes way too many keystrokes to do so for each image. A rotation i

By David ·