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Hello everyone

What are the current options or strategies for having a Groups.io group "follow" a Facebook group?? I'm considering creating a Facebook group for members of my Groups.io group who might want to chat via Facebook as well (and so that other people who don't want to join the Groups.io group can join the Facebook group instead), but I would like the mailing list people to be notified when there are new Facebook posts.? In the worst case, I'd post a weekly "What's new on our Facebook group" post manually to the mailing list, but since our group is an ask-and-answer type of group, it would be nice to get more immediate or more automated notifications.

What are various things I can try?

Thanks
Samuel

On Tue, Aug 4, 2020 at 11:26 AM, Samuel Murray wrote:

What are the current options or strategies for having a Groups.io group "follow" a Facebook group?

Since the demise of the FB integration (which would only pick up public posts - so anything requiring a login was not supported) that was , I've not seen anything that would work.

Andy

Samuel,

I don't know if that would work, but it's worth a try:

1. Create a "forwarder" email address.
2. Create an FB account with that email, address, set it to only email notifications and group notification ON, plus set it to private account, no friends, and all that stuff.
3. Login to FB with that account, join the FB group, and set the group notifications to ALL.
4. create a .io login for that email address and add it to your group.
5. Setup a rule in that account's mailbox to forward just the FB group notification emails to the .io group.

If it works at all, it may do what you want, maybe with some additional tweaking on FB & group notification settings, and on the forwarding email rule, to ensure only group-related and not FB-account related messages get forwarded. ?

I'd be curious if it does work!

Cheers,
Christos