Anne,
When you visit groups.io for the first time, you will be prompted by a
link that will ask you to set up a password.
One of the factors that is often left unsaid is how the person got to groups.io. If they just typed in that address, or followed a plain link to Groups.io nothing special happens. There's just a page describing the service and links in the upper right to Log In or Sign Up.
Clicking through a link in an email notice from Groups.io is different. Those messages that arrive because you were transferred in, Invited, asked for an email log in, or you sent a +Subscribe command, etc. often have special links. Such links often have landing pages tailored to the purpose of the notification.
But to answer the member's question:
Do I need to login/sign up as an individual to access Freecycle via
this new platform?
To access members-only content of the group, yes. To just receive and post messages by email no (but then there would have been no need for you to click on a link either).
Shal
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