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Re: Question about chat capabilities of groups.io
Michael,
Are these chats publically viewable?No, that is not even an available option. Subscribers can read and participate in chats, they can start new chats if that's allowed by the group's Chats setting, in the Features section of the group's Settings page. Shal -- Help: /static/help More Help: /g/GroupManagersForum/wiki Even More Help: Search button at the top of Messages list |
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Re: How long is the wait?
The most recent information we've seen is 10-14 days, but that was a couple of weeks ago.? Once the invitation is accepted, it shouldn't take long, depending on how well Yahoo is delivering the data needed.
Duane -- Help: /static/help GMF's Wiki: /g/GroupManagersForum/wiki Search button at the top of Messages list A few site FAQs: /static/pricing#frequently-asked-questions |
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Re: Is there some setting to disable the QUOTE FUNCTION when making a reply? . . .
#suggestion
Paul,
So... Is there a setting on Groups.io which disables the quoteAs Duane and Bruce mentioned, this is usually an issue with members who reply by email. There isn't a relevant setting fro the group, but here's what Groups.io does generally: o In replies forwarded to members receiving individual messages, nothing. The quoted matter is passed through. o In replies forwarded to members receiving digests the trailing quoted matter is removed. In some cases quoted matter may not be recognized if the replying member's email interface uses an unconventional marking for quoted material; if you have a frequent case where this happens you can ask support to look into it. In rare cases a top-quote can cause the entire reply to disappear. o In replies shown in the group's messages section the trailing quoted matter is hidden under an ellipsis button [...] that can be clicked to show it. As with the Digest case the detection isn't always perfect. Having an option like that would save our moderators a lot of timeIf your primary motive for rejecting the piggybacking was the effect it has on Y!group digests (extensive bottom quotes making them nearly unreadable) then you may be able to relax the requirement in Groups.io. Members who receive individual messages in email are usually more tolerant of extensive bottom-quotes. In this group I'm still pretty much a stickler for removing excess quotes, especially more than the first message in a reply. But I can't necessarily defend that moderation style on practical grounds. Just a feeling that everyone benefits from keeping things concise and relevant. Shal -- Help: /static/help More Help: /g/GroupManagersForum/wiki Even More Help: Search button at the top of Messages list |
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Re: Just Joined [Yahoo Group transfer]
Kim,
I have requested twice for the Groups.io to join my Yahoo Group toThat depends on what other steps you've taken. If you haven't followed the steps in the instructions then nothing happens merely as a result of inviting the transfer agent to your Y!group. /yahootransfer See the many other threads on the subject in this group's Messages section, and especially see our web page for additional tips: /g/GroupManagersForum/wiki/Transfer-from-Yahoo-Groups As of about a week and a half ago there was a two-week backlog of groups to transfer. I haven't heard any more up-to-date status, so I don't know if that backlog is growing or shrinking. Shal -- Help: /static/help More Help: /g/GroupManagersForum/wiki Even More Help: Search button at the top of Messages list |
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Groups.io site updates
#changelog
Hi all,
This week's change log: Feel free to reply to this topic if you'd like to comment on the changes. Or better yet, if you expect a lot of discussion start a new topic (or rejoin an existing one) about a specific change. NEW: The website now requires consent for cookies.I generally consent to cookies. Except when they're minty. NEW: Added cookie policy.My policy is all chocolate chip, all the time. Plus the occasional Do-si-do or Trefoil (when it is Girl Scout cookie season). Comments about these others are also welcome: NEW: Revamped terms of service/privacy policy/about/cookie policyPlease call out any you find significant. Shal -- Help: /static/help More Help: /g/GroupManagersForum/wiki Even More Help: Search button at the top of Messages list |
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Re: user cannot create a photo album but owner can
¿ªÔÆÌåÓýJerome,I've re-checked it all and everything 'appears' to be correct: ? My user is logged in and the album is set for group access and updated. You didn't mention checking the group setting, so I'm not sure if you included that in "re-checked it all": Shal -- Help: /static/help More Help: /g/GroupManagersForum/wiki Even More Help: Search button at the top of Messages list |
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Bertrand,
The current group is linked to a database which refers to the yahooAs Bruce implied, you're in a tough spot here because there will only be piecewise correlation between the numbering from the Y!Group and in the Groups.io group. If you're a moderator you can use "View Source" in the More menu to see the header of the message. Groups.io added one at the top to identify the corresponding Yahoo Group message number: X-Yahoo-Msgnum: With enough tedious effort you could use that info to find and record the endpoints of each segment that has the same offset (the offset should be monotonically increasing. It may not be too arduous if members and mods seldom deleted any messages in the Yahoo Group. Of course updating your database would be another effort. Hmm, I wonder if the transfer agent could be improved to include that table of segments in the transfer results notice. That might be a reasonable request to make in the beta group: With the right kind of programming skills one might be able to create a script to go read them all and produce a correspondence table, or a list of the segments (as above). Or, the fact that data is available leads to a different request you could make on beta@ - a means to search and/or sort by Y!Group number. Shal -- Help: /static/help More Help: /g/GroupManagersForum/wiki Even More Help: Search button at the top of Messages list |
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Re: Replace Moderator
¿ªÔÆÌåÓý¡°Files and photos can be moved manually by the members who had added them. They can also be moved by you but will get listed under your profile.¡± ? I did the same thing as you, and the ownership of the files changed to me also, since I was the one that uploaded them to our new groups.io group. So that the original creators of the files got their credit for the files I uploaded, I added their name to the description of each file that I could find an owner of. An example would be ¡°Ahoy For Projects by David & Carol Sibley¡±. ? Photos was a different story, since our members can make their own Photo Albums. For the most part albums made by past members that were not current members of the new site, were either assigned to the owner of the group (Me), or had no ownership at all, but as the group owner I could still control the album. There were a few albums, where the owners of the albums transferred to the new group, but lost ownership of their albums in the new group. In those cases the album owners had to download all they wanted out of their album, then make a new album to upload their things into, after I deleted their old album. It was done that way, so the naming convention of the albums stayed in alphabetical order. I still have members that have albums they never took ownership of to date (They¡¯ve been alerted to this situation a couple of times), so I imagine when they finally get around to wanting to do something with their albums they¡¯ll be notifying me of their problem. ? Don |
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Re: user cannot create a photo album but owner can
Check the thread at /g/GroupManagersForum/topic/20335683 that started just before you posted.
Duane -- Help: /static/help GMF's Wiki: /g/GroupManagersForum/wiki Search button at the top of Messages list A few site FAQs: /static/pricing#frequently-asked-questions |
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Re: Searching issues
Alexis,
When using the search option, it seems to return results for the firstYou should have promptly received an automated "[Request received]" message from support. If not, you need to figure out if it landed in your Spam folder or was otherwise diverted by your email service, or if your message wasn't sent, or was sent to the wrong address. If you got the automated reply, but are awaiting a human response that normally takes a day or so, but recently support has been innundated both with Yahoo Group transfer requests and likely with issues relating to Europe's new GDPR law. Still, it shouldn't take Mark more than a few days to respond. I'd be interested to hear what response you (eventually) get from support, or however this issue turns out. If there's an undocumented restriction on searching lengthy messages that deserves to be brought to light. Also, is there a post or a wiki page or such like that also explainsThanks Bruce for that excellent page! /g/GroupManagersForum/wiki/Using-the-Search-Engine Part of the data in the messages are in hexadecimal format and IThat's... peculiar. I tried searching for that and got no results, rather than a bunch of messages with those characters highlighted. But I didn't create any messages that would actually contain that string so maybe I didn't have the initial conditions of the test set up correctly. You didn't accidentally include any invisible separators between those characters did you? For example, did you simply type the string "A1DEF2" into the search box or did you copy/paste it from somewhere (like a message body)? Shal -- Help: /static/help More Help: /g/GroupManagersForum/wiki Even More Help: Search button at the top of Messages list |
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Re: Members cannot post photos in my group - why not?
#membership
#photos
#notworking
Go to Admin->Settings->Features->Photos->Permissions. Make sure it is set to "subscribers can view and upload."
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If this is set correctly and subscribers are still having trouble, it's probably because they aren't logged in. Refer them to this for login instructions: /static/help#password Hope this helps, Bruce ----- Original Message -----
From: John <johnmartin1097@...> To: [email protected] Sent: Sat, 26 May 2018 14:35:09 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [GMF] Members cannot post photos in my group - why not? #membership #photos #notworking I'd like to know why members of my group cannot post photos at this time as it would be a useful thing for my group. Is there something I need to change in the group settings, or is it something the members need to do first?? Thanks, John1097. -- The system Help is your friend.??/static/help |
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