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Testing -- question about restricted groups

 

I just joined this group.

I am curious how the signup process works for restricted membership groups.

When I search for groups, I see "Public Groups". ?But, I am wondering if there is a way to find Restricted Groups only so I can try signing up for a restricted group. ?

Thanks.
 

L Jade,
I am curious how the signup process works for restricted membership groups.
You can test it and report back to us how it goes. I gave you mod privileges in my test group. Unlike Yahoo Groups, I believe the choice to restrict membership is reversible in Groups.io, so feel free to change the group's setting.
You may want an inexhaustible source of email addresses to go with such testing - the behavior is a little different if Groups.io has never seen that email address before, versus if it has.

See also my "Join Flow" and "Invite Flow" topics in the beta group.
When I search for groups, I see "Public Groups". But, I am wondering if
there is a way to find Restricted Groups only so I can try signing up
for a restricted group.
Interesting question. Might be something to suggest over on the Beta group.
-- Shal
 

L Jade,

Interesting. Editing my message while pending made a mess of the formatting, including losing the quote markers... Something to report in the Beta group once I test it a bit more.

See the correction below.

-- Shal

On 11/25/2014 3:02 PM, Shal Farley wrote:
L Jade,

I am curious how the signup process works for restricted membership
groups.
You can test it and report back to us how it goes. I gave you mod
privileges in my test group. Unlike Yahoo Groups, I believe the choice
to restrict membership is reversible in Groups.io, so feel free to
change the group's setting.

You may want an inexhaustible source of email addresses to go with
such testing - the behavior is a little different if Groups.io has
never seen that email address before, versus if it has.

See also my "Join Flow" and "Invite Flow" topics in the beta group.

When I search for groups, I see "Public Groups". But, I am wondering
if there is a way to find Restricted Groups only so I can try
signing up for a restricted group.
Interesting question. Might be something to suggest over on the Beta
group.

-- Shal
 

Thanks Shal.

I did try setting your test group to restricted and then I tried joining using a different email address. ?The process seemed a little cryptic or vague and it didn't seem to go very smoothly. ?But, I'm not sure if I could explain what happened or how I got it to work. ?After doing the test, I then re-set your group back to being unrestricted.

I'm done testing for tonight, and at some point in the next day or two I may try creating a group of my own and doing all of the various tests etc. ?If I do that, I'll probably do some testing to see if I can create or edit the various messages that go out to people who request to join a restricted group. ?That is one of the issues that I have with Yahoo Groups and I'll want to see if the groups.io system works better in that area.


From: Shal Farley


L Jade,

Interesting. Editing my message while pending made a mess of the
formatting, including losing the quote markers... Something to report in
the Beta group once I test it a bit more.

See the correction below.

-- Shal


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If you want to join a restricted group, you can join my test group. Restricted and I have a pending subscription notice for it as well.
[email protected]

If you want to know a bit about restricted groups, see
/g/GroupManagersForum/wiki/Joining-a-group

and this overview:
/g/GroupManagersForum/wiki/Quick-Start-for-Group-Formation

Frances




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