Re: Embedding a sign up form in my Squarespace website
I may be speaking out of turn, but it sounds like the goal is to use a Basic GIO group as an email listserve only, while making it appear to be hosted on the local web server. In such a case it might
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Bruce
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#35215
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Re: Embedding a sign up form in my Squarespace website
Can I ask why ? Chris
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Chris Jones
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#35214
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Re: Embedding a sign up form in my Squarespace website
So it transpires Squarespace doesn't supports PHP which is a real shame as that seemed like the perfect solutions for our needs Back to the drawing board...
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Loneliness Lab (Collectively)
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#35213
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Re: Embedding a sign up form in my Squarespace website
/On 2020-11-25 16:19, Bruce Bowman via groups.io wrote:// / Yes, like I mentioned the nice advantage of this is it still allows the GIO normal signup process to take place, because all we are really
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Christos Psarras
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#35212
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Re: Embedding a sign up form in my Squarespace website
Thanks everyone for your responses. Just to add I am not a web developer and playing middle (wo)mxn and so please excuse me if termilology isn't 100% accurate Sounds like bypassing Groups IO sign up
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Loneliness Lab (Collectively)
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#35211
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Re: Embedding a sign up form in my Squarespace website
I very much second that; I don't think doing it that way is right from either the potential member's point of view or from Groups.io's point of view either. I also agree with Bruce's comments
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Chris Jones
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#35210
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Re: Embedding a sign up form in my Squarespace website
After thinking about this some more, I'm beginning to believe we're making this harder than necessary. Rather than use the API to directly subscribe, you could use PHP to capture the email entry from
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Bruce
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#35209
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Re: Embedding a sign up form in my Squarespace website
I honestly think that's a bad idea, and I personally wouldn't recommend doing that, as it bypasses GIO's group approval mechanisms, and the word will go out in their circles and every spammer/scammer
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Christos Psarras
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#35208
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Re: Embedding a sign up form in my Squarespace website
That feature cannot be achieved without API function calls. Well, it really isn't the same thing. You're asking for a feature that allows signup to a group that resides on a different server/domain.
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Bruce
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#35207
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Re: Spammers attempting to join groups
No, not banning the person. Just put him on moderation.
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Donald Hellen
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#35206
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Re: Embedding a sign up form in my Squarespace website
Thanks so much for the quick and helpful reply. I have followed the instructions in the manual and copied the html code into Squarespace,?but then it takes the user to the Groups IO confirmation page
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Loneliness Lab (Collectively)
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#35205
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Re: Embedding a sign up form in my Squarespace website
See /helpcenter/ownersmanual/1/promoting-your-group I have no familiarity with Squarespace and cannot speak to whether the provided html form will work with?it. The form code
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Bruce
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#35204
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Embedding a sign up form in my Squarespace website
Hi there, I have searched in previous topics and can't see to find a page that has clear info about this. Is it possible for me to embed a sign-up form where visitors to my website can add their email
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Loneliness Lab (Collectively)
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Re: Turn off Moderation
Thank you Bruce- I did uncheck that box and will see how it goes.? The group is pretty quiet today but I¡¯m sure that¡¯s what it was. Thank you! Scott Mohr- Information Systems Manager Chowchilla
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Scott Mohr
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#35202
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Re: Question about Backups
Jim -- A full explanation of these export functions is available at /helpcenter/ownersmanual/1/exporting-or-downloading-your-group-s-data I'm sure that groups.io has made provision
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Bruce
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#35201
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Re: Favicon again?
#Discussion
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Interesting, Larry. I have a favicon showing in the Groups.io tab I was working in before. Not this one, since it's open and has only the little x (in Chrome on Kubuntu Linux). I usually have lots of
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Valorie Zimmerman
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#35200
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Re: free group question
No. Old attachments are purged according to the "Out of Space" setting on a weekly basis, not in real time. It's entirely possible to have someone to photo-bomb your group and put it over quota before
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Bruce
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#35199
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Re: free group question
Hi - Let me see if I understand this correctly.? In a free group if an item is sent as an attachment and the storage space is approaching max of 1 Gig then those oldest attachments would be
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Judith Freed
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#35198
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Question about Backups
Hello Moderators, I'm a new moderator for a 700-person group and have a question about backups.? We've just converted over from Yahoo Groups but did not try to transfer over historical Yahoo
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Jim Sterken
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#35197
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Re: Turn off Moderation
Scott -- Based on what you've sent us so far, the group is not moderated, but topics are getting moderate without your intervention. On that basis I can only guess that you've previously set up the
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Bruce
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#35196
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