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1. You can send anyone an invitation using the invite function?
OR
2. You can send someone a link to your home page, where they can join (or apply for membership, if your group is restricted) - that address is
/g/group-name
OR
3. You can direct-add the person, using the Direct Add function, if your group is premium, as Bruce notes.
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J

Marina, I'm not sure it's a "problem".? I think this is simply how Mark has coded a search result to display (ie, "display first 120 characters in search results from group description").? When I use the Search function, and search using any old key word, all the search results display exactly the same as you've described:? About 1 1/2 lines are displayed from each group's main page description.? In fact, they are all truncated or cut off at the same number of characters.? So, I think is is just "how it is".? I don't think this is an issue, frankly.? If someone is interested in finding out more, and reading the full list's description, they would just click on that search result.? And, you're correct about the bolded word or words:? That word or words are bolded because they represent your search word(s).? However, I think what WOULD be helpful in the Search results would to add three periods at the end of the truncation, to indicate "there's more of a description", or that the description is, indeed, truncated.? Easy coding string to add, so maybe something to suggest on the Beta forum??
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Patty S.

You have to pay for Premium if you want to directly add members without having them accept an invitation.

Bruce

I worked in IT for many years and always believed in the "belt and braces" approach to backup. I'm sure you guys keep backups, but against the horrid possibility that something dire goes wrong, I'd like to be able to take my own backup of the groups that I own (all messages, attachments, files, photos etc. etc.).

So what mechanisms are available to allow this?

Thanks
David

Is anyone else seeing a picture of a cat instead of their group web site? The Home page of one of my groups shows a picture of a kitten. I can get to the conversations and thus to the control menu by using the direct link under Your Groups, but I can't access the Home page. It seems to be only one of my groups. The message on the page says,

We're currently undergoing maintenance. We will be back up by 1AM Pacific Time (9AM UTC). In the mean time, here is a picture of Feynman, one of the Groups.io kittens (2 of 4)

It has been this way since at least yesterday evening, ~18 hours.

Jonathan

Hey Jerry
I've been wondering that also.? Could you tell me where you found it?? I know how to change the picture on the home page
but that's basically all.?

Thanks Jerry

Loopy

This is being worked on and will likely resolve within a few days. But the best advice you can give them is to get rid of Norton. I tried it once, and it was such a resource hog that I decided I'd prefer have a virus.

Bruce

Thanks, Bill, but that’s not an issue. No copy/paste, clean new entry, no dummy blanks (intended or otherwise). I’ve sent a support request to Mark. It’s only this one particular group (thanks to you guys replying to my question). I own other groups and they are having no problems.?

It does seem to have started, we think, around the outage the other day (can’t sweat to it but had no prior complaints). Everything else in this particular wiki is working: links, creating, editing, deleting. Tried creating a new page, that didn’t return either. Tried adding an edit to existing page, nada.

I’ve logged out, closed programs, cleared all temp cache files, cookies, powered down, started over - and on multiple devices. Can’t think of anything else to try (even as quirkycrazy as it may seem).?

Just plain stumped (and frustrated).
Ginny

Judy -- One of the biggest pitfalls we encountered were Yahoo group members who were set to "no email." We had a difficult time notifying them of the migration, and despite our best efforts some of them were blind-sided. Since there's no reliable way to contact them via the Yahoo group, you may have to capture their email address and send them a note manually. To mitigate this, I wanted to put up a new banner (i.e.: "cover image") that notifies anyone visiting the Yahoo group of our move, giving the new groups.io URL. Yahoo has repeatedly frustrated my efforts to do this.

You can also plan to have a number of members start to bounce emails after the transfer completes, due either to dead email addresses among your Yahoo records or recipient mail servers that for some reason think mail coming from groups.io as spam. The latter can be a particular problem as some will be automatically unsubbed from the group and have to be re-added. Anyone who had to "white list" Yahoo to get their group mail will likely have to do so with groups.io as well. Hotmail in particular seems troublesome in this regard.

That said, this can also be useful to eliminate some of the deadwood users that seem to accumulate over time.

In our two migrations, members, files and messages seemed to transfer well. Photos are more troublesome and you can expect to lose a third to a half of them...for no other reason than the Yahoo servers are balky. Be advised the files attachments to messages -- photos or otherwise -- are NOT migrated. This includes any photos appearing in the "Photostream."

Finally, be advised that many groups are abandoning Yahoo right now and it may take awhile (a week or more) for the transfer agent to get around to you. The inability to provide a firm date to your members as to when the migration will actually take place can also be mildly frustrating.

That's my experience. Hope this helps!

Bruce

Hi,

I'm about to use the Direct Add feature to add a large list of members. I understand the required format for the name, email address, and subscription preference.

What file types can I use for the document upload? I assume a text file works, but can I upload an Excel file? A CSV? A rich text document? How about a PDF?

Thanks for any guidance :-)

Marla

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On Wed, Feb 14, 2018 at 04:15 am, Duane wrote:

Now we just need to find out why your description is being
truncated at about 170 characters...

I am bringing up this topic again, just to know if anyone else has the same problem.
My group description in Group Directory is truncated, which makes it difficult to understand what the groups is about.
I haven't been able to understand the reason.
Should I report this as a bug in Beta?

Marina

On Sat, Feb 24, 2018 at 02:59 pm, Shal Farley wrote:

You mean you forged their name and email address into the From of your message to [email protected]?

Be aware that this will cause Groups.io to send a confirmation email message to that address. The recipient will need to confirm their desire to subscribe before they will be made a member of the group.

At which point, wouldn't an Invite be easier?

In our 'get together' group there is one member who only sends one on one eMail He never did join the Yahoo group befote.

Is there a way to add him on so that messages to him do not have to be CC'ed any longer?

Arno

Is this 'track the progress of transfers' available ONLY to new transfers or in my case--I requested the transfer of my group on the 20th--can I check the progress of my transfer? If so, where do I go to CHECK the progress. Thanks.
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