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Re: Search For Groups
Frances,
I would agree with the BOT crawling.? So, the very FIRST line and the very TAIL line of the words on the main page gets placed into the main pages META data for the header aka <head> Meta description is a short paragraph of text in the HTML <head> section of a page. It is usually displayed in a SERP snippet after website's title and URL. In HTML it looks like this for our group: ? <meta property="og:description" content="*yanmar tractor owners group compact deere cadet CUT SCUT Yan... YM1900, YM1800, YM1720, YM1700, YM1500, YM1401, YM1300 * *"> ? My FIRST line is all the white-on-white text.? It does work as GIO pulls that into the meta property field. :)? And the TAIL (last line) contains much of the popular models manufactured in that era.? Thus, I now see this as a win-win when the BOT does crawl thru. ? Using the FF TOOLS > WEB DEVELOPER > INSPECTOR, the above head portion is displayed. As for the header TITLE, it seems GIO doesn't allow this for modification as it shows the first half of the group's web address as the title. I would like to see folks join GIO and not the YG listserv crippled service of our old location.? Getting the GIO group out there in the forefront ahead of the YG is very important to us going forward. BMaverick ? |
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Re: Home Page Does not Allow Text as shown
Thank you all for the?feedback.? I will try this at home later tonight. David Peters On Mon, Dec 9, 2019 at 3:49 PM Bruce Bowman <bruce.bowman@...> wrote: On Mon, Dec 9, 2019 at 03:44 PM, Frances wrote: |
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Re: Home Page Does not Allow Text as shown
I am listed as Moderator in the top left corner. I have entered a Description.? It shows up in the middle of the Group Info and Settings area rather than above it.? I did paste this from another site.? So potentially that caused the issue. I could delete this and manually input the text I suppose.? Or is there another way to clean it up and restart? David Peters On Mon, Dec 9, 2019 at 3:42 PM Frances <frances@...> wrote: On Mon, Dec 9, 2019 at 03:40 PM, Chris Jones wrote: |
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Re: Home Page Does not Allow Text as shown
On Mon, Dec 9, 2019 at 03:44 PM, Frances wrote:
I looked at your Groups.io homepage and you seem to have pasted a section on top of the description box. Or something!Francies -- I noticed that, too. There appears to be some position: absolute or other style directives messing things up, such that content is lying on top of each other. David -- If you are cutting-and-pasting from a Word document or some other web site, don't. Clear everything out and edit your Description using the editor's own menu tools. Bruce |
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Re: Honey, I shrunk the photos
Chris,
Yes, but unknown IF the reduced image size would degrade the quality worse than using a 3rd party software. This way, using the 3rd party software, adjustments and tweaks can be done to nail it right each time.? Then uploading to GIO, the same or close to the same sizing can be used. :) BMaverick |
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Re: Home Page Does not Allow Text as shown
On Mon, Dec 9, 2019 at 03:14 PM, David Peters wrote:
I looked at your Groups.io homepage and you seem to have pasted a section on top of the description box. Or something! Frances ? -- FAQ on Moving from Yahoo Groups GMF Wiki: (unofficial) Help for members (and would-be members) and group managers |
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Re: Home Page Does not Allow Text as shown
On Mon, Dec 9, 2019 at 03:40 PM, Chris Jones wrote:
This example has about 14 lines in the Description;BTW, you can also drag to enlarge the description box in the bottom right corner. Frances ? -- FAQ on Moving from Yahoo Groups GMF Wiki: (unofficial) Help for members (and would-be members) and group managers |
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Re: Home Page Does not Allow Text as shown
On Mon, Dec 9, 2019 at 08:14 PM, David Peters wrote:
The description at?/g/FordEagles?only allows one line.<Scratches Head> I cannot guess what is happening to you. Can you post a screenshot of your Settings page, showing the Description box as per this example: This example has about 14 lines in the Description; some of them contain hidden text for use as keywords for anyone carrying out a search. Chris |
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Re: Home Page Does not Allow Text as shown
On Mon, Dec 9, 2019 at 03:14 PM, David Peters wrote:
Okay, first are you logged in as owner? Or moderator with the right permissions (I think this works. A moderator needs to be able to modify group settings to do this.) What does it say in the top left corner? Owner?? Go to Admin, Settings. There is a box labelled Description. Type there. If you open the Advanced Toolbar hidden beneath the regular toolbar) you get more styles, fonts, etc. You need to save at the bottom of the page. If you can't do this, and you are the owner, logged in with the correct email address, some of your settings are wrong. Or your browser, perhaps? You can put in hyperlinks, bold or italicize, align centre or whatever, use special characters, text colour and more. Frances ? -- FAQ on Moving from Yahoo Groups GMF Wiki: (unofficial) Help for members (and would-be members) and group managers |
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Re: Home Page Does not Allow Text as shown
I went to Settings and the Wiki.? I was unable to figure it out.?? The description at?/g/FordEagles?only allows one line. GMF and other sites enable multiple lines in the description (as shown in the circled area of the provided attachment) and quoted here: "Would you like to be a better Owner and/or Moderator??We discuss our experiences as Owners and Moderators, share our ideas for promoting and customizing content areas, and offer various techniques for managing groups.?We strive to provide a resource of the?highest quality?for Owners and Moderators alike.? Use the links in the column to the left to access our public content.?See especially our?Wiki?section - it contains a collection of tutorial and reference information for group members as well as for group moderators and owners. Don't miss the search box at the top right of that page to help zero in on the information you need. You may also use the search feature our?Messages?section to see if there is any discussion about your questions. If you don't find what you need, please?Join?GMF and ask. This?Group Managers Forum?(GMF) was founded as a sister to the??for Yahoo! Groups owners, with the same management but this one is focused on Groups.io instead of Yahoo! Groups." I am trying to figure out how to add text in a similar fashion? David Peters On Mon, Dec 9, 2019 at 2:28 PM Frances <frances@...> wrote: On Mon, Dec 9, 2019 at 02:13 PM, David Peters wrote: |
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Re: Number of Groups.io Members
Hats off to Mark on his system architecture. Transferring all those Y! Groups is an accomplishment, but as a retired system architect, I am more impressed by the performance of groups.io in the face of a rapid increase in traffic. Scaling up may sometimes be easy in theory, but doing it in practice as well Mark has, is really incredible. There are so many things that can go wrong unexpectedly. Sometimes it is as mundane as an employee or contractor who doesn't perform as expected under the new level of stress or a minor piece of hardware that you forgot to include in your failover strategy.? Or a failover step that worked fine with 1M users, but flubs on 4M. An outage or slowdown or two under the new load is still likely, but performance so far is amazing to me.
Best, Marv |
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Re: Honey, I shrunk the photos
On Mon, Dec 9, 2019 at 03:04 PM, Alan Watkins wrote:
What do you do if you¡¯ve already included the photos in your Yahoo transfer and then discovered they are too big, ?Is there an ¡°in- place¡± resolution capping function?No. The resize only occurs upon upload/transfer. Also, is there a way to download the size and/or resolution of each photo in the group?The size of each photo, in kB, is shown when the image is displayed in the slide show presentation. But the best way to check for oversize images is probably to export all them and examine them offline. See the Export Group Data button at the top of your Settings page. Bruce |
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