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Conventions used in this documentation
- User interface
- Terminology
Introduction
Joining groups
- Overview
- Joining a publicly listed group through the group’s website
- Responding to an invitation to join a group
- Receiving a notice that you have been added to a group
- Joining a group by email
- Joining subgroups
- Responding to a “Confirm your subscription” message from Groups.io
Understanding Groups.io accounts
- Overview
- Creating a Groups.io account
- Logging in to your account
- Setting account preferences and viewing account information
- Merging accounts
- Exporting your account data
- Recovering your account if you enter an incorrect email address
- Deleting your account
Understanding Groups.io home pages
- Groups.io home page
- Your Feed home page
- Your Groups home page
- Topics home page
- Hashtags home page
- Your Calendar home page
Understanding individual group websites
- Content stored at group websites
- Visiting your groups’ websites
Controlling your email subscription preferences
- Displaying the Edit Subscription page
- Email Delivery
- Signature
- Advanced Preferences
- Saving your subscription preferences
Working with group messages
- Understanding topics compared to messages
- Using email to send or reply to group messages
- Using the group’s website to post new topics or reply to existing messages
- Quoting messages you are replying to
- About the Show quoted text button on the group’s website
- Working with draft messages on the group’s website
- Searching for messages in the archive
- Reposting messages
- Editing your own messages in the group’s archive
- Deleting your own messages in the group’s archive
- Reporting messages to moderators or to Groups.io Support
- Responding to a “You have been removed because of reported spam” message from Groups.io
- Downloading a group’s message archive
Understanding and using hashtags
- Overview
- Viewing the hashtags used in a group
- Hashtag uses
- Applying hashtags to topics
- How hashtags are displayed in the group archive
Controlling the volume of email messages you receive from a group
- Overview
- Muting or unmuting topics and hashtags
- Following or unfollowing topics and hashtags
- Managing muted and followed topics
- Managing muted and followed hashtags
Working with calendars
- Understanding group calendars
- Viewing a group’s calendar
- Adding calendar events
- Making an event a Zoom meeting
- Editing or deleting calendar events
- Downloading event iCalendar (ICS) files
- Subscribing to a group’s calendar
- Adding events from outside calendar invitations
- Using the RSVP feature
Working with chats
- Understanding the Chats feature
- Creating a chat
- Participating in a chat
- Closing or reopening a chat
- Viewing open and closed chats
- Editing a chat
- Deleting a chat
Working with databases
- Understanding the Databases feature
- Viewing database tables
- Creating a database table
- Adding table rows
- Importing a JSON or CSV file
- Editing a table’s properties and columns
- Editing or deleting table rows
- Exporting tables
- Deleting tables
Viewing the directory
Working with files
- Understanding the Files feature
- Viewing files
- Uploading files and folders
- Updating files and folders
- Moving files and folders
- Deleting files and folders
- Reporting files or folders to moderators or Groups.io Support
Viewing the member list
Working with photos
- Understanding the Photos feature
- About the Emailed Photos album
- Viewing photos
- Adding photos
- Editing photos
- Moving photos
- Deleting photos
- Reporting photos to moderators or Groups.io Support
- Adding albums
- Editing albums
- Deleting albums
Working with polls
- Understanding the Polls feature
- Creating a poll
- Voting in a poll
- Viewing a list of polls in a group
- Viewing the results of a poll
- Editing a poll
- Closing or reopening a poll
- Deleting a poll
Working with wiki pages
- Understanding the Wiki feature
- Viewing a group’s wiki
- Displaying a specific wiki page
- Viewing a wiki page’s revision history
- Creating and editing wiki pages
- Organizing wiki pages
- Deleting wiki pages
Sponsoring groups to help cover their hosting costs
to donation requests in Premium and Enterprise groups
Leaving a group
Additional information
- Standard group email addresses
- Understanding message digests
- Understanding message footers
- Understanding how group messages are threaded into topics
- Member badges and topic icons
Acknowledgements
Revision history
Updated: February 26, 2021

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Updated: February 26, 2021