Michael,

Do you know if using email to text would work? ie
1234567890@... ?

I don't know.

It has been ages (when I owned a basic flip-phone) since I've tried using a carrier's SMS gateway with an email list (a Yahoo Group). I seem to recall that I made it work, sort-of, but it wasn't very useful. Something like the 160 character limit was all consumed by the email address and other stuff, leaving no room for the message text itself.

In Groups.io the first challenge would be getting the gateway address confirmed - you'd have to be able to reply to the confirmation message and I think that was a sticking point. Or, if you have a premium group you could avoid that problem by using Direct Add.

If you run the experiment and get a useful result that would be a nice how-to article to post here, and/or in GMF's Wiki.

Shal

Oh, I know this member will not get a new email address. In fact all the members I've band won't. If they do I will find out about it and ban them.?They are not welcome.

Mike,

Is there now or is there a future plan to include the ability to send
SMS / Text messages to phones?

It has been discussed, but I don't think there's a plan.


One issue is that there's a cost for sending them, so it would have to be a paid group, or paid memberships, or something (see Mark's reply in the second message of that topic).

That topic is now locked, so you'd have to start a new one to bring it up again.

Shal

Is there now or is there a future plan to include the ability to send SMS / Text messages to phones?
One of the groups I am managing contains a bunch of people that almost never use email but very often phone texting.

Pedja,

I am new to this. I just created my first group and set it to bi
private. It seems it is not visible even for me. I just get error

Hmm. We’re having trouble finding that site.
We can’t connect to the server at ...

It sounds like you have the address wrong, and/or are not logged in to Groups.io. Try going here:

/

If that page shows you a list of your group memberships then click on the group you wish to visit.

If that page shows you general information about Groups.io then you are not logged in. When you log in, be sure to use the same email address that you used when you created your group. Then go back to that page.

Actually, after I created group it seemed normal, but then I decided
to set how subgroups work, and created subgroup which I also set to be
private. After that I was unable to access group or subgroup.

Creating a subgroup does change the address (both web and email) for your group, but the old address should still work - it should automatically redirect you to the new address. And in any case, the group should be in your group list (at the link above).

Shal

John Mc,

Has there been any thought/discussion to add one (or more) fields to
the member information?

There is one "extra" field. If you open a member's page there's the "Notes" tab.

Alas, that feature is rather out-of-sight-out-of-mind right now, there's no indication given in the list that it holds content, and there are no notifications when a moderator updates that field. At least the update does get logged in the Moderator Activity log.

Not trying to turn the member list into a full-out database - but for
some lists it's nice to have one more bit of information about a
person. What street you live on for the neighborhood list. What
your plot number is for the community garden list. Stuff like that.

I've often wished for functionality like this, but I've never come up with a proposed "best" way to do it.

Just adding more fields to the Members list is one approach. But it can make that list cluttered, which could ultimately be an impediment to its primary use cases. Maybe there would be a clever way to manage what is shown when there are too many columns to fit the user's window; a bit like Excel's split and/or freeze features.

I've also thought of having it be another selector, "Notes", in the Members list view button that currently selects Members, Moderators, Pending, Bouncing, or Banned. When "Notes" is selected then the custom fields are shown rather than the standard fields. But I think you'd have to have at least the email field automatically included, or both email and Display name. So you rapidly run into the same width problem as having them in the primary members list.

A pro or con of those ideas (depending on your use case) is that it would be available only to moderators.

Possibly one could do a similar thing built on the member Directory so that it could be made available to members if desired. In my classmate groups it would be desirable to allow members to add their current address, phone number, nick-name in school, activities, or other information to help everyone remember them. Even a second "then" picture to go with their current profile photo/avatar.

Couldn't find anything searching old topics - is this wish list
worthy?

I'd say yes. We could kick it around here some more if you like, or just go for it in beta.

Shal

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I have to confess I and my members also miss the comments feature. I get off list messages, mags please enable comments for photos, so I respond with, sorry it simply isn't in my power to do that, sigh, despite all the moans we had about Yahoo groups, it did spoil us.

I started a Yahoo group in 2004, did a short 'about' write up outlining what was offered, would be subscribers had to send a brief message saying why they wanted to join. Within a week I had a dozen members, growth was slow, but gradually as word spread within the area my group covered, the dozen became 2500. In 2004 my area of interest existed in a small niche software market, machine embroidery software, I made videos showing how a small selection of the programs worked and how to use them. As a listed group I attracted 'freeby hunters', and group collectors, one boasted she belonged to over 100 groups, so in 2007 I altered the group to be an unlisted one, sent mails at weekly intervals stating I would remove all 'special' notices members, ( treat all members as vips so 'special Notices' members never got information) permanent bouncers, anyone that didn't respond with I want to continue my membership by a given date. They had 2 months to decide. I culled the membership to 700, was unlisted, put all members on permanent moderation, appointed 2 moderators, and made membership by invitation only.?
I made the move to Groups.io Dec 31st, informed my members, asked them to let me know if they wanted to be part of the move, they have until Feb 28th to make up their minds, on March 1st I will simply delete the old group. After I unlisted my Yahoo group all new member requests came via existing member requests. I intend to stick with the same procedure here in Groups.io, I neither desire or want members that are not interested in learning how to improve their skill set, offer support and encouragement to fellow old and new members. If what you offer via your group proves to be of value, word of mouth becomes a great marketing tool, but be warned as word of mouth can also destroy a group if members feel a group doesn't fulfil its members needs. So far my new group here has 124 members, it will grow slowly but that's what I want, I have no desire to own the biggest group there is, I want my members to enjoy their membership experience.?

Have reported it it to support...

I did a some further testing, which showed that '#word,' (note comma), as created on appending event date/time to the title, is not seen as a valid hashtag.

Jeremy

Hi,

I am new to this. I just created my first group and set it to bi private. It seems it is not visible even for me. I just get error

Hmm. We’re having trouble finding that site.
We can’t connect to the server at ...

I mean I cannot even access group administration.

Actually, after I created group it seemed normal, but then I decided to set how subgroups work, and created subgroup which I also set to be private. After that I was unable to access group or subgroup.

I cannot even access to delete group to start over.

Is this a bug or I did something wrong?

Has there been any thought/discussion to add one (or more) fields to the member information?

Not trying to turn the member list into a full-out database - but for some lists it's nice to have one more bit of information about a person.? ?What street you live on for the neighborhood list.? What your plot number is for the community garden list.? ?Stuff like that.?

I could certainly add a database, but that would have to be maintained separate from the list membership, which will end up being out of sync over time.??

Couldn't find anything searching old topics - is this wish list worthy?

- John Mc

Hi, I'm new here.? But have had a yahoo group for 4 years come next month. Time for a move.? Here.

I get new members via other members in the group.

I have been reading the updates since they began and saw you can send invites. anyone know how?

I tried putting something on a calendar page, then it was sent to members.

What showed up was a button, outlined in grey, within it was a blue outlined page, with one corner turned down.
Below this was the link? invite.ics

As the owner of the group I tried in my personal email to open it, and it would not.

Here, in this message i clicked on it and it gave me a OPEN LINK , but again, nothing happened.

Please, help if you can, I want to move my yahoo group here, but first need to learn more.

Cara Febe Giaquinto
SOTHUSAgroups.io

Yup,
Yahoo allowed owners to ban owners.
We had one of our colleagues literally go bananas and send "shouting" messages to us when we asked why he bugged a member the way he did, forcing her to leave.
The message to us were full of 30 font curses, etc.
Two of us had to coordinate removing him from more than one group and other secure access assets by telephone after actually making a script detailing what to do in order.
Otherwise he would have banned one or more of us while we were processing things if he got even a hint.

--
Bob Bellizzi

The Corneal Dystrophy Foundation