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Length of Group description in Groups Directory #suggestion

 

I looked up for my group using the Find a Group tab and I noticed that my group description was abruptly cut off, showing just a line and a half, while most groups had (more or less) longer descriptions. Where did I go wrong?

In general, group descriptions in the Groups Directory vary in length. I wonder if it would be possibile to have a set length, e.g. only the first 3 or 4 lines of a group description are shown in the Directory.
This would grant all groups equal visibility and give a tidier appearance to the Directory.

Marina
Arranging photo folders chronologically

Elizabeth O'Sullivan
 

Our group is new. We have noticed that photo folders seem to be arranged alphabetically. Is there a setting that can have them arranged with the most recent folder first, and so forth?
Re: Mute Hashtags?

J_Catlady
 

Here is some tentative documentation I've written about muting and following. It hasn't been reviewed by anyone yet and there are several open questions I still have about it, but this should do for now.

J

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You have the option to mute, or conversely, specifically follow, individual topics and hashtags.

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Muting topics and hashtags

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You can choose not to receive emails from a specific topic, or with a certain hashtag, by clicking on the ¡°Mute This Topic¡± or the ¡°Mute [#hashtag-name]¡± link at the bottom of any email in the topic or with the hashtag. (Note: some hashtags in a group may be coded by moderators to be unmutable.) Muting a topic or hashtag ensures that you will not receive any more of the emails from that topic or hashtag. If your Email Delivery method is Daily Summary, Plain Digest, or Full Featured Digest, your summary or digest will filter out those messages and not contain them.

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When muting a hashtag, you are given the opportunity to pick which group you¡¯re muting it in (in case the hashtag exists in more than one of your groupsYou will also be able to specify a duration for the muting, for example, ¡°Forever,¡± ¡°One Hour,¡± etc.

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You can see all the topics and hashtags you have muted by going to the home page and clicking on ¡°Muted¡± under either ¡°Topics¡± or ¡°Hashtags,¡± respectively. You can also mute a new hashtag by going to the list of muted hashtags (¡°Muted¡± under ¡°Hashtags¡±) and clicking on ¡°+Mute a New Hashtag.¡±

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¡°Unmuting¡± a topic or hashtag

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To ¡°unmute¡± a topic or hashtag you have muted, go the home page, click on ¡°Muted¡± on under either ¡°Topics¡± or ¡°Hashtags,¡± respectively, to bring a list of the ones you have muted, click on the topic or hashtag you want to unmute, and click on ¡°Unmute This Topic¡± or ¡°Unmute This Hashtag,¡± respectively.

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Following topics and hashtags

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Instead of excluding topics and hashtags by muting them, you can start from the ground up, picking out exclusively the ones you want to receive by ¡°following¡± them.

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To set up your subscription for following topics or hashtags, click on ¡°Advanced Preferences¡± from your Subscription page, and under ¡°Message Selection,¡± select ¡°Following Only.¡± You can also click on ¡°First Message Also,¡± which will ensure that in addition to messages in topics you specifically follow, you also receive the first message in any new topic. A second option, ¡°Auto Follow Replies,¡± will add to your ¡°Followed¡± list any topic you start or reply to.

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After you¡¯ve set up your delivery to ¡°Following Only,¡± you can pick the topics and/or hashtags you want to follow. The methods for following topics and following hashtags are slightly different from each other:

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Following a topic

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To follow a topic, go to the home page . Under ¡°Topics,¡± click on ¡°All¡± to bring up a list of all the topics in the totality of your groups. To follow a topic, click on it, and then on ¡°Follow This Topic.¡±

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Following a hashtag

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To follow a hashtag, go to the home page . Under ¡°Hashtags,¡± click on ¡°Muted,¡± and then on ¡°+Follow a New Hashtag.¡± Enter the name of the hashtag (be sure to include the # sign), the group name in which you want to follow it, and the duration (¡°forever,¡± ¡°one hour,¡± etc.).

You can see all the topics and hashtags you have followed by going to the home page and clicking on ¡°Followed¡± under ¡°Topics¡± or ¡°Hashtags,¡± respectively.

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Unfollowing topics and hashtags you have followed

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There are two ways to unfollow a topic or a hashtag you have followed. You can click on ¡°Unfollow This Topic¡± or ¡°Unfollow [#hashtag=name]¡± at the bottom of any email in the topic or with the hashtag, respectively. Or, you can go to the home page , find the topic or hashtag in your ¡°Followed¡± list, click on it, and then click on ¡°Unfollow This Topic¡± or ¡°Unfollow This Hashtag.¡±

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On Sun, Feb 11, 2018 at 6:53 AM, Sharon Villines <sharon@...> wrote:
On Feb 11, 2018, at 8:47 AM, Marina <moderatore@...> wrote:
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> Under Subscription>Membership>Advanced Preferences I found a
> Following Only option
> "Only the messages in threads or hashtags you have chosen to follow are emailed to you, according to your Email Delivery Selection."
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> "Chosen to follow" means "that you have chosen not to mute¡±?

I was confused by this too. Where does a member choose to follow?

People will interpret it as having set an option somewhere and wonder if they are getting all the messages.

Sharon
Subgroup calendars do not seem to appear on Web site, but _do_ appear on calendar subscripton (ICS file) #calendar

Titus Brown
 

Hi all,

I'm trying to set up a system of calendars for a large mailing list with many subgroups. The 'main' calendar (above all the subgroups) doesn't show events in the subgroups when I view it on the Web site, but when I add it to an iOS calendar via a subscription, I see all of the subgroup events (which is what I want!) Am I missing a feature or a setting, or is this a bug, or am I doing something wrong, or ...?

I can add screenshots if the problem isn't well described. Let me know :)

thanks! I love groups.io!
Re: Rotate photo sent by email

 

I don't see a way to rotate email attached photos as you can with others. On a regular, uploaded photo, you can choose Edit while looking at one, then select Rotate Left or Rotate Right, then Update.

Duane
Re: While we¡¯re at it - merging

 

You would use Merge to combine two threads/topics.? You must be in Topic view, use the down arrow below the topic to select Start Merge, wait for the page to refresh, then use the down arrow below the Topic that you want to merge it into to select Merge Into, then verify that this is correct.? If you change your mind after starting a merge, you can select Cancel Merge from any drop down arrow.

Duane
Re: While we¡¯re at it - merging

 

Nancy,
/g/GroupManagersForum/wiki/How-To-Merge-Threads

Cheers,

Frances
Re: Question about Subject lines/splitting posts

 

No, you can't split an individual message.? You can split off a message to start a new thread.? As mentioned, anyone that replies using the original subject/title will have their replies in the original thread.? Any with the new subject would go in the new thread.? That's why splitting isn't recommended for an active topic.? Folks that only use email will tend to reply to the original which wouldn't have the new subject.

Duane
Re: Mute Hashtags?

 

On Feb 11, 2018, at 8:47 AM, Marina <moderatore@...> wrote:

Under Subscription>Membership>Advanced Preferences I found a
Following Only option
"Only the messages in threads or hashtags you have chosen to follow are emailed to you, according to your Email Delivery Selection."

"Chosen to follow" means "that you have chosen not to mute¡±?
I was confused by this too. Where does a member choose to follow?

People will interpret it as having set an option somewhere and wonder if they are getting all the messages.

Sharon
Rotate photo sent by email

 

Hi everyone,

My nephew sent a new baby picture to our family group but it is sideways. I don't want to ask for a new one. And yes, likely we can each download it and rotate it for better viewing.

But is it possible to rotate it within Groups.io? The photo is attached to an email and thus in the default Emailed Photos album.
Thanks!
Frances
While we¡¯re at it - merging

Nancy in Renton
 

We talked about split, I don¡¯t see a merge function. How would I merge two messages?

Nancy
Re: Question about Subject lines/splitting posts

Nancy in Renton
 

So, you¡¯re saying if a person uses one message and talks about two subjects I can use the split function, rename the second subject in the split and all replys to that second (now new) message will be tied to that subject line.

Will members be aware it¡¯s a split or do I mention in the new message that it¡¯s split off?

Nancy
Re: Mute Hashtags?

 

Thank you, Shal.
I pointed out the omission in Beta Group as suggested.

I must confess that I find it a bit difficult to manage Groups.io features. They are more complex that YG's ones. I wouldn't worry so much if weren't a group owner. But I know that at some point my members will turn to me for assistance in their own language.

For instance, I still haven't been able to figure out how to follow or mute topics and hashtags from the web.
At the bottom of each message in Digest there is a Mute this Topic link but not a Follow this Topic link.

In Groups.io Help, under the section Muting and Following, I read:
"In addition to the above subscription options, you have the option to mute individual discussion threads and hashtags. In the footer of each email is a link to mute the thread. And from the website, you can mute hashtags."

I find it a bit cryptic.
How do I mute hashtags from the website?
How do I follow specific topics or hashtags?

Under Subscription>Membership>Advanced Preferences I found a
Following Only option
"Only the messages in threads or hashtags you have chosen to follow are emailed to you, according to your Email Delivery Selection."

"Chosen to follow" means "that you have chosen not to mute"?

This is killing me.

Marina
Re: Send "automatic" files to pending/new members

 

Thank you, Shal, and everybody here for your precious suggestions (and patience).
I have to think this Group Guidelines thing over.

Marina
Waiting List

Al Silverstein
 

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I am ready to move one of my groups from Yahoo to groups.io
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I have secured a group name at groups.io
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I sent an invitation a couple of days ago to [email protected].
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I have heard nothing. I do not even know if my invitation was received.
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Is there a way I can find out where in the invitation queue that my invitation request is located.
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Al
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Re: Send "automatic" files to pending/new members

 

I wrote;


See also: /g/GroupManagersForum/message/3749
Here's what it looks like on receipt:

From: "[email protected] Calendar" <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: [shalstest] The event name you enter - Sun, 2/11/18 #cal-notice
Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2018 00:00:02 -0800

The event name you enter

When:
Sunday, 11 February 2018

Description:
This event serves as an example of using an event to post a scheduled message to one's group. I've set it to two weeks, matching one of the choices available in Yahoo Groups (the other choice being monthly). In a Groups.io event the scheduling is far more flexible.

The schedule, the event name, and the descriptive text are under your control. The rest of the message is boilerplate you can't change.

Shal
Re: Instructions for Group Members?

 

Paul,

Would you please post your instructions?
Here's one I used:
/g/GroupManagersForum/wiki/Welcome-Message-for-Yahoo-Group-transfer

Anyone else who's willing to post one please feel free to add to that wiki page.

Shal
Re: Mute Hashtags?

 

Marina,

At the bottom of each email of my GMF digests there is a "Mute this
Topic" link, not a "Mute this Hashtag". This happens even when an
email (within the digest) is tagged with an hashtag.
I see what you mean; I don't see a reason it shouldn't be there.

That could be an oversight; you could suggest it in the beta group.

A related omission has already been posted, you could reply to that to point out the omitted per-message links:


Shal
Re: TIME ZONE SETTINGS

 

John,

How do I change the time zone for my io group?
There is no such thing as a time zone for the group as a whole.

In some platforms the time displayed on the message you receive is the
sender's local time.
On Groups.io's pages each member sees times reported in their own time zone.

Now I can't remember where I found it.
As John McLachlan said, you find that in your account.

o In the upper right corner click on your name
o From the drop menu Select Account
o In the left column click on Preferences
o In the Timezone box select your time zone
o At the bottom click the blue Update Preferences button

Shal
Re: own messages not coming through email today?

 

Oh, no! Got what he deserved, tho.

Barb Jones


From: Bob Bellizzi <cdfexec@...>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Saturday, February 10, 2018 8:38 PM
Subject: Re: [GMF] own messages not coming through email today?

The river of no sevice (De Nile)
Youngest son got ticked at banal msgs in his job as SysAdmin and on last day sent 100 meg attachment on a broadcast msg to all employees.
Then he wondered why his new company fired him a couple of days later.<g>
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Bob Bellizzi
The Corneal Dystrophy Foundation
44841 - 44860 of 49097