Groups.io

[Derek Atkins]

Thanks!
I would suggest looking at the gnucash htdocs repo to see how the current
site theming works; hooking into that would be ideal.
-derek

On Thu, May 11, 2017 3:00 pm, Adrien Monteleone wrote:
> I’m in the middle of a server installation and migration and some website
> customizations but I should be able to play with it a bit and have
> something by middle of next week, perhaps sooner.
>
> -Adrien
>
>
>> On May 11, 2017, at 12:53 PM, Derek Atkins <derek at ihtfp.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> On Thu, May 11, 2017 1:28 pm, Adrien Monteleone wrote:
>>>
>>>> On May 11, 2017, at 6:31 AM, Derek Atkins <derek at ihtfp.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> It looks like groups.io is a hosted platform,  not a package we could
>>>> install and run ourselves.
>>>>
>>>> I'm still waiting for mailman3.
>>>>
>>>> As for searching.... that's a separate issue and can be solved
>>>> piecemeal. Indeed, we could potentially even add a framed google
>>>> search
>>>> if someone wants to create the appropriate pages...  does some html
>>>> hacker want to donate this work?
>>>
>>> If it is just HTML, PHP and CSS I volunteer. I don’t tread in JS but if
>>> it
>>> is a light requirement I suppose I could. I don’t mind including JS in
>>> the
>>> page, I just don’t know it enough yet to maintain or debug it.
>>
>> Yeah, it should be doable with just HTML, CSS, and PHP.
>>
>>> Curiously, why does the built-in Mailman link to search return a 404?
>>> or
>>> is that supposed to link to a custom page? (I used to admin a list but
>>> it
>>> has been a while)
>>
>> It pointed to namazu.  :)
>>
>> Once namazu went away, we eventually removed the pages, but didn't
>> remove
>> the links to the search page.
>>
>>> -Adrien
>>
>> -derek
>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>> -derek
>>>>
>>>> Sent from my mobile. Please excuse any typos.
>>>>
>>>> ----- Reply message -----
>>>> From: "Liz" <edodd at billiau.net>
>>>> To: <gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
>>>> Subject: Groups.io
>>>> Date: Thu, May 11, 2017 6:04 AM
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, 11 May 2017 13:18:30 +0800
>>>> Plutocrat <plutocrat at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> So excuse me for bringing up the issue of alternative mailing list
>>>>> software again, but I only just became aware of groups.io, and my
>>>>> initial impression is favorable.
>>>>>
>>>>> As has been noted before there are a number of shortcomings of the
>>>>> current mailing list format, most obviously the difficulty of
>>>>> searching them (resulting in repeat user questions), and the lack of
>>>>> choice between a web interface and plain email. I believe Groups.io
>>>>> addresses both of these problems.
>>>>>
>>>>> It seems to be free, at least as long as you don't upload lots of
>>>>> images, and the users can be migrated across by pasting a list of
>>>>> emails into the admin interface. The remaining obstacle would be
>>>>> migrating the archives across, which the head coder, Mark, seems to
>>>>> indicate is possible, without going into details.
>>>>>
>>>>> Anyway, I wasn't trying to stir up flame wars, I was just putting it
>>>>> on the development radar in case its a viable option.
>>>>>
>>>>> P.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I'm on a few mailgroups. One has transferred recently from Yahoo to
>>>> Groups.io, and the overall impression on that list was favourable.
>>>>
>>>> Liz
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       Derek Atkins                 617-623-3745
       derek at ihtfp.com             www.ihtfp.com
       Computer and Internet Security Consultant