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Is the link to prompt new members for a sassword not working?

 

This from one of my members:

Hi Anne,
Thanks for doing this! I tried to do this, as suggested:
  • When you visit??for the first time, you will be prompted by a link that will ask you to set up a password.? This will allow you to view the message archives online, regardless of your email address.
But when I clicked on the link, I wasn't prompted to do anything. Do I need to login/sign up as an individual to access Freecycle via this new platform?
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Hi Anne,
I just checked it on my iPhone and on my Mac laptop. It seems to be working.
Here's the screen when I click on Email me a link. And I received the email almost instantaneously. (Please note, I did not click through on the link in the email - didn't want to reset my password!)
Frances
 

Anne,

When you visit groups.io for the first time, you will be prompted by a
link that will ask you to set up a password.
One of the factors that is often left unsaid is how the person got to groups.io. If they just typed in that address, or followed a plain link to Groups.io nothing special happens. There's just a page describing the service and links in the upper right to Log In or Sign Up.

Clicking through a link in an email notice from Groups.io is different. Those messages that arrive because you were transferred in, Invited, asked for an email log in, or you sent a +Subscribe command, etc. often have special links. Such links often have landing pages tailored to the purpose of the notification.

But to answer the member's question:

Do I need to login/sign up as an individual to access Freecycle via
this new platform?
To access members-only content of the group, yes. To just receive and post messages by email no (but then there would have been no need for you to click on a link either).

Shal


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