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...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>