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...FD as viable options which means that such groups must be FD + TN or just FD. We would work with such groups to help them make the transition.<br>

====Task 55 - Sharing Moderation on FD==== ====Task 67 - FD hosting for Caretaker groups====

*Photos can be attached if posting to FD via email as well as when posting on the web. *FD shows the photo uploaded first, first. The order can't be changed later.

Users of Freegle groups receive a message with each email generated by FD - "Please vote for Freegle to win up to £7000 of much-needed funding. Save On the 16th, please send both a Special Notice on Yahoo, and an Admin on FD, adapted from the text at link Y.

...ield.<br>It would be good practice to notify people when they change their FD email or password - in case someone else is trying to hijack their account. ...s here: [https://trello.com/b/GuUpwqxW/fd-v2 https://trello.com/b/GuUpwqxW/fd-v2]

====Groups Using FD==== ...42, so it looks like we had some success and 10 more groups are now using FD.

====Freegle Direct (FD) and Member Lists==== The first being if a group is on FD and then decides it doesn't want to be.

...droid 4.3<br>There is a problem where some photos don't upload properly to FD. One user sees this repeatedly when using the default browser on this devic ...has tried contacting us three times using the contact moderators button on FD led to us finding out it wasn’t working and hadn’t been for a while. Th

...bugs at [Https://trello.com/b/GuUpwqxW/fd-v2 https://trello.com/b/GuUpwqxW/fd-v2] Sorry you need to join Trello to see it.<br>Most comments about the new === Confused about FD memberships? ===

The MM will now look up a members "friendly name" in the FD database so emails received have a name rather than FBUser… If the membe '''Q Is there any way I can just email my Yahoo users (and not FD users)?<br>'''

====Task 53 Review of Freegle Direct information policy / Transfer of FD members====

====Fundraising via FD====

...hould be able to make the decision to post directly on FD groups, with non-FD groups being bulk mailed with a message to be placed locally.

...function we need.<br>We are also thinking of changing the look and feel of FD to make it a bit nicer.<br>An example of a revised login page is here: http ...ifications now inform the moderator if you have already been approved. <br>FD signin issues.<br>A Google 414 error was coming up on a mobile. <br>Hopeful

There was a link at the top of each FD daily digest, 2 different centrally prepared admins, a lot of Facebook and

*[[Geeks Team Remit|Geeks]] - looking after the website, FD, Apps and anything else IT!

...yet to be sent because of discussions on Development about contacting non FD groups. The discussion is taking a little longer than expected so we expect ...roups now have FD added to them with mentors help. If you need help adding FD please contact us at mentors@ ilovefreegle.org, we are happy to help.

We summarised that the new FD and modtools interface will eventually solve the problem of Yahoo owner ema For non FD/Modtools groups, Edward will create an interface to record all known emails

...scussed doing a trial of a banner asking for a £1 donation. That's live on FD now. In a few days we had donation of £73 but only two donations were from ...confusion in FD v1, to the extent that some groups have turned it off. In FD v2 It has been changed to make it easier for the user to understand. You ca

b. We are considering ways that we could cut down the volume of FD messages to the owner address. Two suggestion are: *Implement a scheme on Freegle Direct. You could add or remove a moderator on FD if you were yourself a moderator, or get the first one added via a -owner a

...iends freegling, the more we'll grow. To aid this when you're logged in to FD using Facebook, you'll see a button to send a post to a friend. The idea is ...a widget designed and trialled that shows recent posts for those groups on FD. The widget is some HTML code that can be put on any website,<br>It contain

...been Taken or maybe the member had just deleted it - but when I search on FD and Modtools, it is shown as being reposted and there is no indication that ...s which I can see on ModTools. However only one has appeared on our Group FD page</br>

Stable. Some new features (e.g. settings) being added in preparation for FD v3. ====FD v3 aka new platform aka Iznik====

...vite the members to join the Yahoo group before the group was deleted from FD.

* FDv2 isn't covered in this section or much at all - FD pages need updating and putting in this portal?

...sed the merits of groups staying on Yahoo and whether new groups should be FD only. Many people on Development could see no point in starting new groups FD + TN

When you go into your FD/FB page you can see a number in red of how many posts have come on since yo *Admins going out to members via both FD and Yahoo were not clickable on the FD Digests, so members getting them this way for be unable to read them.

...hould she create a new account in FD – perhaps after I delete her existing FD account ?<br> A Yes she can change it in her FD settings.<br>

* FD + TN * FD only

On the 16th, please send both a Special Notice on Yahoo, and an Admin on FD, adapted from the text [[EBay_My_Favourite_Charity_2017#Suggested_first_Adm On the 28th, please send a second Special Notice on Yahoo and an Admin on FD, adapted from the text [[EBay_My_Favourite_Charity_2017#Suggested_second_Ad

...osts every 90 days. This is because:<br>It only applies to Yahoo users, as FD users default to republishing.<br>We fairly often get members saying "I've ...d received multiple alerts on a worry word. This was promptly fixed.<br>On FD there was a problem for some being unable to mark posts as taken, which was

...ave been Neo’d have, selecting reply to sender.<br>They will be trapped on FD and hidden but we can’t do anything about Yahoo. Q. Can we allow ‘taken’s on FD to be sent from the post tab as some members get confused?<br>A. No, as we

====Freegle Direct (FD) and Member Lists==== ...group decides to leave Freegle Direct. (The info available to Freegle via FD doesn't include whether a member is also a mod or owner.)

...they will be sent out by email if the user is configured to get mails from FD.<br> You might be aware that FD has a menu option for "Other reuse options" which lists places near you tha

====Task 67 - FD hosting for Caretaker groups====

...onversations where you've replied to someone else's post; currently, as in FD, you cannot see what you said or the subsequent thread. Both these are more ...is unable to login or register as he gets error message when signing in to FD.</B>

...their area, ie charity shops, furniture reuse points, etc. as available in FD. :https://direct.ilovefreegle.org/reuse <br>As a trial, a box in the popup you see when you post a TAKEN/RECEIVED on FD was introduced, to ask people to tell us why they freegle. This may enable

...o make it clear who they are from and send instead from email addresses on FD (groupname-auto@groups.ilovefreegle.org), which may also have the benefit o ...n ModTools/ Group Settings which will suppress the area name in posts from FD. This means posts will just have the first part of the postcode. <BR>

...he Wiki will be updated ASAP<br>Changing the order of the sign in boxes on FD was discussed. A simpler solution was found in taking out the gaps so membe ...earch on member choice broken and fixed<br>An error on the posts on FB and FD which put in the name of the member looking instead of the ‘someone’ wa

...cessitates either the use of modtools, or downloading the member list from FD and doing a search. . <br>A. There is no app available at present. So pleas

From our current appeal for donations on FD we're getting an average of about £20 per day, so about £600 per month. FD gets about 1.6 million page views per month. Based on estimates, prominent

...howing that she left the Banbury Yahoo group in March. When I download the FD memberlist it is still showing her email address as a member. Her offer pos

...s in emails received to take members in, to post an event and those within FD for event were not working, but have been fixed. Moderators were getting mu ...stop being auto-reposted soon. It would be possible to work around this by FD prompting people (mods? members?) to manual post things of interest from th

We continue to attract a steady trickle of donations from the banner on FD. A new image from them for FD v2 - not used it yet.

...oupname=GROUPNAME<br>4) Under 'Group Appearance' scroll to 'Group Logo for FD/FB' and paste in the link you just copied.<br>5) Scroll down and save setti ...this feature into the phone app. <br>Q Can someone point me to the way non FD members can view and or sign up for community events?<br>A If they have a Y

...would like to have multiple servers handling the main server, and multiple FD servers and the master database could moved into yet another server or two ...report back on his experiences with Bootstrap, though it is not clear that FD would be a good candidate for it.

...ed that the lack of updated information on the wiki regarding Modtools and FD needs to be addressed. The layout of information needs to be looked at as

...about it. Edward is twiddling to try and improve the ratio received by FD by sending them from two sources. <br>A member was having difficulty saving his changes in the settings of FD. We were asked to switch off his emails for him.<br>

...GM. The Board has agreed it can be removed as we have a Funding Group and FD is now being used to generate some funding.

...ificant funds). Stop-press PayPal have broken this, so we’ve switched the FD donation appeal to Virgin until it’s resolved, which will cause a drop-of ====FD v3 aka new platform aka Iznik:====

...o the group settings for a welcome message to be sent when people join via FD or FB. A generic page code would be useful, a rough one is available and ca ...website we can use for alerts when Yahoo is down.<br>Q I don't suppose the FD app itself could add "(Location?) to the message could it? <br>A. Yes, it c

...ill use the one on that group, so if you then join with the other on FB or FD you can end up with two. ...the logs as a member. If you look in the post logs and see any posts from FD memberships. bouncing, send an invite to the fbuser ID and once registered

...sted in a single category to join us. They have not worked properly since FD v2. It has therefore been decided to stop supporting these as separate gro ...them that it is there. Is there any way that I can get a URL for a post on FD?

Ongoing and nearing completion. The view has been taken that FD should be intuitive to use and that detailed explanations of what is seen o

...he offered yesterday. When she looks at the drop down menu in My Posts on FD, all that is listed is a post she made three months ago and she said she ha ...ools is part of). This means that until FD v2 is retired and users are on FD v3, the system is kind of split, which means it relies on syncing. <p>

The second phase will be to get the current FD interface working against the new backend platform. This will give us a ba ...purely on the new platform. For groups that choose to continue on Yahoo, FD will be much more robust against Yahoo being unreliable.

...posted on communities, the Board can make the decision to post directly on FD communites and/or relevant communities being bulk mailed with a message to

*'''Tech/Central Discussions in MT/FD chat.''' Some members are using chat instead of posting to Central, and som ...pecific start date for the info that is displayed on a member's profile in FD as some members have said it is inaccurate or incomplete?<br>

A query about what the situation would be if a group using FD wished to move off to another platform and become independent was resolved

The donation request has been removed from the top of the FD pages to a request when a member posts a Taken, Received. We have also disc ...laces has been made, and these are now being detected and removed from all FD groups automatically. However a few genuine members may also be detected. I

**FD maintenance and FD development ...Moderation will become much harder and some of the synchronisation between FD and Yahoo is not possible.

...mat on ModTools has changed a quite a bit, but only on messages created on FD. ...users had a problem, in that if you were replying to a message from a non-FD user, then that reply wouldn't go back via our platform and so wouldn’t

...was mentioned that a moderator had not seen any spammers being removed by FD from his groups for a while.<br>On checking it was found that the app was s ...r>A. If it knows about it, it will be because that's what Google gave when FD asked for your name and you gave permissions for it to have it. You can cha

...onse from a members comment on Direct, Edward has said he thinks the whole FD interface could do with improving and he would bear his suggestion in mind& ...re are no log-in credentials associated with that account.<br>ModTools and FD now send from another address with a Reply-To header of the - owner address

...dtools so everything is in one place and t is easier for all groups using FD to start using modtools as well in preparation for moderation of the new pl ...st central summary sent on Feb 8th was not received by any groups. The new FD interface will solve many of the problems but that is a while off yet. This

...reading before being sent to members. <br>There was a problem reported of FD not saving changes to members settings for the digests. If you get any repo ...he preview page or on Twitter.<br>Q If a member opts to hide their name in FD will their email address still be visible, and if so how do they hide it? <

There is a feedback system on FD where members can leave a rating for other members.

Q. How does FD deal with spam from hacked accounts? ...lly joined on Yahoo might want just the Yahoo mails, some might prefer the FD mails and want to turn off the Yahoo ones.

...join up to the other local groups. I understand they have to join through FD or yahoo prior to using App. Correct?<br> ...nd the best measure of your group is the Activity or Weights graphs on the FD stats. The membership number is complicated. We used to add up all the Ya

...be Terms and Conditions, however Edward doesn’t want to implement them on FD because it is another step in the process of signing up and we already have

Someone wanted to print their chat out on the FD website. It only showed the list of chats rather than the chat itself. A f Q. Realising that, I need to be a lot more familiar with the FD interface than I currently am, I enlisted a friend's help and

===== '''Q. Can I mail FB/FD members?''' =====

...., I only checked two groups and both have posts that are not making it to FD.<br> ...the posts as we can only show posts to non-members if they were posted on FD - for posts from Yahoo we don't have permission. TN posts were also ignored

* they hoped to keep FD running in parallel for a while, if possible, but only with what support is ...gst existing volunteers for active fundraising. It is also clear from the FD donation appeal that some members are receptive to being asked, and so far

...whether there needs to be a period of grace for stragglers moving over to FD and the issue of non-affiliated groups using the Freegle name. The positio

...he moment.<br>e. We were asked if we should clear a bit of screen space in FD by replacing the “My Settings” tab with a cog as is increasingly the co ...by us.<br>Q. I know we can delete messages and re-map them<br>Can members FD members do this&nbsp;?<br>A. They can delete their own and map any.<br>Q.Wh

<br>'''Facebook'''<br>There is code in FD v1-2 which shares out items from the main Facebook page onto the per-group ...r usually offers to remember your username/password. That didn't work with FD v2 and we got members complaining as they forgot their passwords. On the n

...parse nicely for multiple items.<br> *It’s been changed. It's better for FD if you don't post multiple different items in the same post - it messes up *I have noticed that when I am logged in on FD, messages posted by members that included an image, do not show the map im

...PayPal for their charity donation service (which is currently promoted on FD and raises significant funds). Edward is driving this. * Look at future planned spend for FD and other areas and forecasting of income required.

...re now hosted on Freegle Direct or the Norfolk platform. Most but not all FD groups also have TrashNothing. ...port has been turned off for those groups, so the Freegle group is now the FD one. But those groups are welcome to continue to run their Yahoo groups in

...ea then it triggers a mapping request. Moderators can map any posts on the FD tab if wrong though. ...ng their computer has logged into their Facebook account, but occasionally FD can be confused about how a member joined.<br>Q.We have a member who has as

...own wall (the thing that pops up and asks you if you want to post it).<br>FD now resizes any large photos as part of uploading, rather than giving an er ...one for Firefox and Google! It is not possible to have it on IE. <br>Q. FB/Fd members have a location box. It would be good if this information <br>could

...derators to communicate on-line. The chat can be seen on both modtools and FD. Any messages are also sent by email. It is now possible to add a group’s profile photo to appear on FD, together with a tagline. You do this through modtools. If anyone wants a f

...Direct system if possible. Freegle policy on correspondence outside of the FD system is also subject to a 6 month retention period unless the volunteer o

*A model set of group Rules which can be accessed via an FD link will be discussed soon.

...not possible at the moment although Edward intends to add this function to FD later in the year. You can however send a photo in chat so members can shar There is now an option (top right of FD) for members to invite their friends to get freegling. Edward will report b

...oming local volunteers. Edward will be implementing this at some point on FD, in agreement with each local group and Mentors.

There was a bug in FD which meant that some users couldn't delete alerts. That should be fixed n ...the part in a repeat message ‘Last sent on 11th of December’ generated by FD? It appears on a post that has been posted every month since.<br>

...le wish to instigate this, Edward has put a facility to ask new members to FD why they have joined which could be used as part of the baseline informati

...nternet one, he doesn't have an ilovefreegle.org email. I just assumed all FD members got an anonymous one.<br> Q.Does the FD owner address work even if we're still on Yahoo and where do we find any ma

...finds one, then it will use that instead. If the email address is known to FD then the MM will use that.<br>The current list of variants is below, but if ...<br>A. Try asking Jean as she may have set them up.<br>Q. When I sign into FD using my gmail ID I can’t seem to stop the Give as u live pop-up asking i

...query arose on the problem of getting continuous requests to add the same FD memberships to the Yahoo list which are already on.<br>A. If they have only

FD wasn't very good at showing photos when people reposted items, either via t ...interfaces. It will become available in the next Moderator plug in update. FD groups are strongly advised to use the plug in when moderating, and enable

...ts to contact the owner failed, the group was declared as abandoned and an FD group with the active mod as the new owner with all the original members is

FD: * Servers now stable and hosting FD + ModTools + platform development.

*Adding alerts on FD no longer seems to work Messages were not being be removed from FD when we delete using Modtools<br>

...es weren’t getting through. Promptly fixed.<br>5.25 Groups getting lots of FD members which were not being used up. Problem was found to be the absence o

2. FD v2 - progressing, albeit slowly. Plan to switch before the major Facebook c *Proposal for generating income from the FD group members newsletter – getting help, so can write up proposal and pro

There are now buttons on My Posts (in FD) and on messages on ModTools to rotate photos these will also be added to t Q I understood in FD 2 members got a different email address for each group and one for each met

...s that are trying to join us are being advised check for replies online at FD - or to use a different email address. <br> All of this only applies to users who joined via FD - we can't repost for other domains because of DMARC.<br>

Q Will there be a place on FD/modtools, for moderators to add links etc similar to the links or files sec ...er on the group. That ought to happen when you move a group from Yahoo to FD, but if it doesn’t then Edward will manually promote you.<br>

...be Terms and Conditions, however Edward doesn’t want to implement them on FD because it is another step in the process of signing up and we already have

£73 has come from the FD banner. A significant amount of this has come from people increasing from FD v2 continues to progress. We have 35 days to switchover, which is a fixed

Trying to check who asked for items I offered on the FD app I go into my posts and I can see the mark as taken and other buttons. T For the new version of FD. Edward's been thinking about how to deal with the complexity of email sett

...it added. Edward sends us regular lists of the groups currently not using FD and we have emailed each one, offering Jeans help to install it on groups.

...oup is on Freegle Direct, you can set up sub-group for any of the standard FD categories.

...they join a new team.. For those who want to, we also do a quick course on FD and Twitter.

...o their FB or Yahoo account, it will work. <br>Q.Posts are not deleting on FD. The cross flashes but nothing happens. Both myself and at least one of my

A On FD. Click where you see it to view more details, and then you should see an E Yahoo login for new FD version</br>

...the wrong subject ie (Bow E3) instead of (Leytonstone E11). It was fine on FD web. This was a bug which needed an update. ...at a pending message on the Modtools app it shows if they are moderated on FD, but also if they are moderated on Yahoo. Is there some kind of syncing I

...nd down for a bit as we’re not promoting it as the donation mechanism from FD.

...new groups in areas with no coverage at all. We would not need to use the FD lists as it was agreed these always belong to the previous owner. Abandoned

...been unprocessed for 48 hours, then the membership will be autoapproved on FD.<br> ...en pending on Yahoo for 48 hours, then the message will be autoapproved on FD.<br>

Servers stable and hosting FD + ModTools + platform development. *FD:

On MT, change photo zoom code to reuse same code as FD, with the handy advantage that this works better<br> ...Trash Nothing members get notifications of Mod notes in chat spam? Also do FD members get notifications too? Only asking as if people are using email not

...to it.<br> Q Something has gone wrong when I change my group's settings on FD. I click the 'Save settings' button and an email is sent to the owner's add

Move rotate function into message zoom in ModTools, as it is in FD<br> ...oo, and for members directly on Yahoo, ModTools suggests that we will send FD digests to them, which we won't so changed.<br>''

...dual groups could be managed. Edward has since included the possibility on FD that members can order them, and volunteers send them out. Groups are notif

...then please encourage people to try again.<br>Some replies to offers from FD members posts, contained lots of coding. This was promptly fixed .

Q. Modtools reminders are appearing in my email with FD logo. Is that correct? It's just that I liked having them separate to help Speed-ups: Minor FD page load changes<br>

...art of their charity programme. This should improve the speed at which the FD loads. I'm not yet sure whether the difference will be that noticeable, bu ...e much preferable to allow people to pick a local group when they join via FD. How about a system where Freegle suggests nearby groups rather than pick a

...getting some strange text displayed on a message in Freegle Direct.<br>A. FD tries to find the plain text of the message - looks like it has failed on t

A Yes delete the Tweets on Twitter . To delete an event, go to FD and click on the More Info link to get the popup with details - there shoul A All members get sent the event digests, not just FD ones. but I doubt that they can put one on, as TN would need to build an i

...not to receive mail from us then that setting should have carried over to FD?< ...not to receive mail from us then that setting should have carried over to FD?<

Q. When all local groups are on FD, there will be a loss of the polling facility that Yahoo currently offers. ...mails that were not getting delivered can be sent directly instead of thru FD, but it's also how the scammers get people off list so to stop that we need

...and don't receive emails.<br>- Displaying the real email address of FB and FD members<br>- New statistics showing a groups estimated weights saved from l

FD<br>

The development of FD V.2 is progressing,

Changes to the way we produce and build MT to FD, are now on dev.ilovefreegle.org. As with MT, it's possible that bits of f Q If a member posts an event on FD, I presume it is linked to the Twitter account for that group. Can the fre

*FD v2 is progressing very slowly because of constraints on his time.

*FD - Freegle Direct

Q. Is there a limit to the amount of times an event will show on FD? I have an event in pending with every week on it from now until September.

FD:

We continue to get some donations via FD.

Q. I had some trouble finding the stats page once I was logged in on FD. There does not seem to be any obvious link there. Could it be added to the

Q Is there any merit is trying to use the centre of the menu bar on FD pages either for a tag line like 'Freegle is free and legal' or 'Freegle i

...ese tips could also be used in other places automatically, e.g. as part of FD messages or as automatic tweets.

...derators to communicate on-line. The chat can be seen on both modtools and FD. Any messages are also sent by email. There have been intermittent problems

App notifications not working if FD Push Notifications setting is off.<br>

Q. I've set up a new moderating email address, When I go into settings on FD the email address is incorrectly showing the address I use to offer items a

#Liz Ive not had it happen with any FD members, just TN - and I assumed it was because they tend to put in all kin

Q.I'm seeing copy paste options on the FD app. Nothing I do gets rid of them. Screenshot attached. (I hope)<br>

...aveney communities over to the national website, and to reflect changes in FD and ModTools.