tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73566084624777318462024-03-13T00:02:18.722-04:00Google Groups Announcements PageUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7356608462477731846.post-71762133609961920782013-05-21T20:47:00.001-04:002020-06-15T23:56:20.856-04:00A new home for Groups newsRecently we launched<a href="http://googleappsupdates.blogspot.com/2013/05/transition-to-new-google-groups-user.html"> some updates to Google Groups</a>, including a new, cleaner interface. Well, now we’re making an update to how we communicate updates and news about Groups. We’ve realized that we don’t have regular enough updates to warrant a standalone blog, so we won't be posting here any longer. Going forward, look for our updates right in <a href="http://groups.google.com/">groups.google.com</a>. <br />
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Thanks to all our readers! <br />
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Posted by Emily Wood, Google Blog Teamewoodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12341551220176883769noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7356608462477731846.post-69056137795549511772011-11-21T12:00:00.000-05:002020-06-15T23:56:20.844-04:00Google begins migrating help forums to the new Google Product Forums platformOver the next several months, we'll be migrating our 250+ help forums in 20+ languages to the new <a href="http://www.google.com/support/groups/bin/static.py?page=guide.cs&guide=1649598&answer=1649687">Google Product Forums platform</a>. Built on the new Google Groups, Google Product Forums provide users with a fresh interface and robust features for asking questions and discussing our products.
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The new platform brings some exciting new features to our forums. For example, you can now select between starting a discussion or asking a question, quickly indicate your own interest in a question that has been asked by voting "Me too!," and easily share a topic with your circles on Google+.
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We already have Google Product Forums live in 10 languages and will be launching more languages rapidly over the coming weeks. Please have a look around: <a href="https://groups.google.com/a/googleproductforums.com/forum/#!forum/ar">Arabic</a>, <a href="https://groups.google.com/a/googleproductforums.com/forum/#!forum/cs">Czech</a>, <a href="https://groups.google.com/a/googleproductforums.com/forum/#!forum/en">English</a>, <a href="https://groups.google.com/a/googleproductforums.com/forum/#!forum/fr">French</a>, <a href="https://groups.google.com/a/googleproductforums.com/forum/#!forum/de">German</a>, <a href="https://groups.google.com/a/googleproductforums.com/forum/#!forum/id">Indonesian</a>, <a href="https://groups.google.com/a/googleproductforums.com/forum/#!forum/it">Italian</a>, <a href="https://groups.google.com/a/googleproductforums.com/forum/#!forum/ja">Japanese</a>, <a href="https://groups.google.com/a/googleproductforums.com/forum/#!forum/es">Spanish</a>, <a href="https://groups.google.com/a/googleproductforums.com/forum/#!forum/vi">Vietnamese</a>.
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We hope you enjoy Google Product Forums and thank you for your patience as we migrate our legacy forums to the new platform over the coming months.
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The Google Product Forums teamUnknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7356608462477731846.post-75938341484793771452011-07-19T17:34:00.017-04:002020-06-15T23:56:20.917-04:00New in Google Groups!<div style="text-align: left;"><span id="internal-source-marker_0.5651079416275024" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">We’re happy to announce some of the latest design and feature improvements we have made to </span><a href="http://googleappsposts.blogspot.com/2010/12/preview-new-google-groups.html" style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium; white-space: normal; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 153); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">the new Google Groups</span></a><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">. These changes are based on feedback we have received from you; we hope they will improve your discussion experience.</span></div><div style="background-color: transparent; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><div style="background-color: transparent; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent;"></span><ul style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium; white-space: normal; "><li style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Spam improvements: </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Starting next week, we will remove the option to “Add members directly” to </span><a href="http://googlegroups.com/"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 153); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">googlegroups.com</span></a><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "> groups since spammers have unfortunately abused this feature. Group owners will still be able to invite you to join their groups and you will have to accept their invitation before you start participating in and receiving messages from the group. Learn more here: </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 153); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "><a href="http://groups.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=46373">http://groups.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=46373</a></span></li></ul><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent;"></span><ul style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium; white-space: normal; "><li style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Support for more languages</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "> - </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">The new Google Groups is now available in 40 languages. </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">You can set your preferred interface language by visiting:</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Times; font-size: medium; "><a href="https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 153); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en</span></a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Times; font-size: medium; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "> and picking your preferred language using the drop down selector.</span></span></li></ul><p dir="ltr" style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium; white-space: normal; margin-left: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "><br /></span></p></div></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium; "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; white-space: normal; "><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-DlJUar2oAt4/TiYCb2Hn5uI/AAAAAAAAA5I/uQMFXJBKfCc/s1600/lang-select.png" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-DlJUar2oAt4/TiYCb2Hn5uI/AAAAAAAAA5I/uQMFXJBKfCc/s320/lang-select.png" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5631191061480597218" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 255px; " /></a></span><br /></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><div style="background-color: transparent; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "></span></span><ul><li style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Topic starring</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "> - We heard that you’d like a better way to keep track of the discussions you care about most. Groups already allows you to follow your favorite topics by subscribing to email updates on individual topics. Now we’ve added the ability to star your favorite topics for easy viewing. Your starred topics can be viewed by clicking the </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Starred</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "> link on the left pane, similar to Google Docs. Learn more about this feature here: </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "><a href="http://groups.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1304359" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); ">http://groups.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1304359</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; vertical-align: baseline; "><span class="Apple-tab-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span></span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium; "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium; "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><br /><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><img src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/7VBwna8bITZhoE6f1b2HcBqBMHyenu9x9XnXjw53wAfg0jIZEnESigzeQpOzG2OROH8EDuLFifYL0E202wCfq03oeetG0KQUoYEKVEPqvI-dBo0Qew" width="464px;" height="267px;" /></span></li></ul><ul style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium; white-space: normal; "><li style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Simplified discussion interface</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "> - Based on your feedback, we have taken steps to reduce clutter and simplify the new Groups. You told us that the topic list is hard to follow in very active groups, as newly-posted (and updated) topics appeared at the top of the list. Now, you will see a notification when topic updates are available and updated topics will be displayed only when you click on this notification.</span></li></ul></div></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium; "> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span> </span> </span><img src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/sO9TjKc8lOzfdSiw8ipG6gm58wgSL1U-pvI9-PtGvCJjj9jlKrrWGo81fCjWqZTA1yrFSgQwGe81IhGffueQBKa_bdVKLmPRiZlOD37bdMUQNeuV1ok" width="504px;" height="237px;" /></span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Times; white-space: normal; font-size: medium; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "></span><br /><p dir="ltr" style="margin-left: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">We have made other subtle improvements to the discussion experience. For example, when viewing a topic you will notice that the message actions are now wrapped into a drop-down menu on the top right corner of the message, much like they are in Gmail.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin-left: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "><br /></span></p></div></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium; "> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium; "><img src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/P6Dwto3tA9GbJnSkgVCNhx-Z8tlLV2nB5OXEtHMEuDSwuz-87G0Pw4g3U9oVJqo0PPMxcWf9lGmvzR1cotlnRVEsqM0uRKyxoU9X9CFGmPJOCkoEkcI" width="444px;" height="121px;" /></span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><div style="background-color: transparent; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">This is only the beginning</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "> - we’re making even more </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/06/evolving-google-design-and-experience.html" style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium; white-space: normal; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 153); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">design improvements</span></a><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "> to make Groups more focused, elastic & effortless</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">. We are also building more community forum features into Groups. Our newest Google product forums, the </span><a href="https://groups.google.com/a/googleproductforums.com/forum/#!forum/google-plus-discuss" style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium; white-space: normal; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 153); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Google+ discussion forum</span></a><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "> and </span><a href="https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/chromebook-central" style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium; white-space: normal; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 153); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Chromebook Central forum</span></a><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "> feature some of these improvements including:</span><ul style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium; white-space: normal; "><li style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Topic categories</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "> that allow for better organization of discussions </span></li><li style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Questions & Answers </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">that offer the ability to classify topics as discussions or questions, and to rate answers and mark a response as the best answer.</span></li><li style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Badges</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "> that give group participants a sense of identity within the group.</span></li></ul></div></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium; "><span id="internal-source-marker_0.6534270395059139" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">We’re also working to add the </span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">+1 button to public messages and topics in Google Groups, making it easy to recommend your favorite discussions to your friends.</span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Stay tuned for these updates and more coming soon from Google Groups!</span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><div style="background-color: transparent; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "><br />- The Google Groups Team</span></div></span></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7356608462477731846.post-10191771019472710682011-05-16T14:20:00.003-04:002020-06-15T23:56:20.734-04:00Exporting Your Pages and FilesIn September 2010, we <a href="http://groups-announcements.blogspot.com/2010/09/notice-about-pages-and-files.html">announced</a> that Groups would first disable the creation of files and pages and then completely turn off the feature in February 2011.<br /><br />We noticed that some of you had not taken advantage of the zip-download functionality to export all the pages and files from your groups. Because we know this information is important to you, we’re giving you the opportunity to migrate your data one more time. Starting today, we will re-enable the zip-download functionality so that you can save your pages and files to your computer.<br /><br />You will be able to download your pages and files from now until August 31, 2011 by visiting your group home page (https://groups.google.com/group/yourgroupname) and clicking on “Download Pages” or “Download Files.”<br /><br />After this, we will remove the feature permanently.<br /><br />Thanks for your feedback, and for using Google Groups.<br /><br />The Google Groups TeamUnknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7356608462477731846.post-72943329835599083772011-03-25T15:06:00.000-04:002020-06-15T23:56:20.868-04:00Upcoming changes to Profiles & Ratings in Google Groups<div><span id="internal-source-marker_0.8318781882990152" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">It has been an exciting few months since we <a href="http://groups-announcements.blogspot.com/2010/12/preview-new-google-groups.html">launched the new Google Groups</a>. We love your feedback and are excited about switching over to the new interface.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In preparation for a full transition, we will be making some changes to the old Google Groups in the coming months:</span><br />
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<ol><li style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: decimal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="http://groups.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=46240">Google Groups-specific profiles</a></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> will no longer be supported. Instead, you will be able to use the </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> <a href="http://groups.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=1232467">new Google Groups to (optionally) link your new and improved Google profile</a> </span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">with your groups. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times; font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Starting July 1st 2011, you will not be able to make changes to your Groups profile. Your profile information will be available for export from your profile page until November 1st 2011. This change will not affect the nicknames you might have chosen for yourself to participate in groups. It will only affect the custom profile fields, such as your photo, location, and occupation. More details are available here: </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times; font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.groups.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=46240"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://www.groups.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=46240</span></a></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times; font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span></span></span></span></li>
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<ol start="2"><li style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: decimal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="http://groups.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=46244">Message ratings</a></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, which are a rarely-used feature in the old Google Groups, will be disabled to make way for a better rating and sharing system to be launched soon in the new Google Groups. Effective today, per message ratings will be disabled.</span></li>
</ol><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We appreciate your patience as we transition to the new Google Groups. These changes will introduce better, more advanced functionality. Stay tuned for more updates and please continue to send us your feedback & ideas through our Google Groups Product Ideas page (</span><a href="https://www.google.com/moderator/#16/e=3b11d" style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://www.google.com/moderator/#16/e=3b11d</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">).</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- The Google Groups Team</span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7356608462477731846.post-22602268717262187892011-02-22T13:17:00.001-05:002020-06-15T23:56:20.784-04:00Intermittent posting errors on Google Groups<b>Update: This issue has now been resolved. Thank you for your patience!</b> <br />
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Over the past 24 hours, some Groups users have experienced intermittent errors while attempting to post messages to the web interface. The team is working hard to investigate & rectify this issue. Email delivery to these groups is unaffected, so on groups that allow email participation, we suggest posting and receiving messages via email.<br />
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We apologize for the inconvenience and will write back as soon as we fix the problem.<br />
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The Google Groups TeamUnknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7356608462477731846.post-90718812070414120382011-01-26T17:19:00.000-05:002020-06-15T23:56:20.930-04:00Errors on the new Groups<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">We have received reports from users that they're seeing the following error on the top message bar, when trying to access certain parts of the new Google Groups:<br />
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<span dir="ltr">"An error (#383 or #401) occurred while communicating with the server. Please try again."<br />
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We're currently investigating this issue and working on fixing it. We'll provide an update here once everything is back to normal. Sorry for the inconvenience!</span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7356608462477731846.post-15368377456794416132011-01-19T21:00:00.000-05:002020-06-15T23:56:20.758-04:00Updates on the new Google Groups<div class="GIBEAPTBDH"><div><div style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Last month, we announced the preview release of the new Google Groups. Since then, we have received over a thousand suggestions and feedback reports through our </span><a href="https://www.google.com/moderator/#16/e=3b11d" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Product Ideas</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> page and in-product feedback. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Based on your feedback, we have been investigating bugs, working on fixes, and implementing new features. We’re happy to announce this first round of updates. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The following issues have been addressed in a recent release of the new Groups:</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><ul><li style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Fixed: Some group owners and post authors were unable to delete posts. </span></li>
<li style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Fixed: Mysterious appearance of a group with no title or description in the “My Groups” list.</span></li>
<li style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Fixed: Issues with posting to Usenet groups from the new Groups.</span></li>
<li style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Fixed: Issues with posting new messages and replies to moderated groups. </span></li>
<li style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Fixed: Starred/favorited groups list were reset upon refreshing the page.</span></li>
<li style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">New: The ability to ‘Reply to author’ of a message has been added to the new Groups.</span></li>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We’ve also heard your feedback on a few other features that we’re actively working to improve:</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><ul><li style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We’ve received reports that the Groups UI does not render non-English languages correctly. We will roll out a number of fixes over the coming weeks that will address these problems.</span></li>
<li style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">One of the top suggestions we received on the Product Ideas page, was to move group administration tasks to the new interface and make them more prominent. While the new Groups is designed to the shift the focus on to your discussions, we’re working on making sure that you can find administrative tasks quickly as well. We will have more updates on this front in the coming months. </span></li>
<li style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We have also consistently received feedback about reducing spam in Google Groups. Reducing spam is a very high priority for us, and we look forward to rolling out several improvements in the next few weeks.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><span id="internal-source-marker_0.05512623631693092" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span></li>
</ul><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span id="internal-source-marker_0.05512623631693092" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span></span><br />
<span id="internal-source-marker_0.05512623631693092" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Thank you for the overwhelming response so far! Please continue to send us your thoughts & feedback as we work on improving the new Google Groups.</span></div><div style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; margin: 0px;"><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></div></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7356608462477731846.post-16949974201780557522010-12-07T16:00:00.000-05:002020-06-15T23:56:20.771-04:00Preview the new Google Groups<div class="GKSWLJGDBG"><div><div style="background-color: transparent; margin: 0px;"><span id="internal-source-marker_0.6233716348178072" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Millions of people around the world use Google Groups to power discussions with the groups and communities they care about. We have been working hard to improve this experience, and today we are happy to announce a sneak preview of the brand</span><a href="https://groups.google.com/forum/"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">new Google Groups</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The</span><a href="https://groups.google.com/forum/"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">new Google Groups</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> lets you quickly find and browse the content you care about. Your favorite groups are always available in the navigation bar on the left. Using keyboard shortcuts, you can speed through discussions to get to the ones that interest you most. (Tip: Hit “?” to see a list of shortcuts). </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></div><div style="background-color: transparent; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br />
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</div><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></span><span id="internal-source-marker_0.6233716348178072" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Now you can also create rich, expressive posts using the revamped composer. If you choose, you can share more about who you are by linking your Google profile with a group, too. Finally, you’ll be able to stay in the loop even when you’re on the move, with our new mobile browser experience.</span><span id="internal-source-marker_0.6233716348178072" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span></div><div style="background-color: transparent; margin: 0px;"><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">We’re excited about sharing these improvements with you, but this is just a start; we’re working on improved spam controls, moderation, search, and other features to make Google Groups the best way to engage in discussions. We also want to hear your thoughts, ideas, and any issues you encounter, so please contribute to our</span><a href="https://www.google.com/moderator/#16/e=3b11d"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #2200cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Product Ideas page</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></div><div style="background-color: transparent; margin: 0px;"></div></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7356608462477731846.post-55308847699947992692010-09-30T11:00:00.000-04:002020-06-15T23:56:20.832-04:00Moving your pages to Google Sites<span id="internal-source-marker_0.7429077268234529" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">We announced last week that pages and files will be going away in February. Many of you have asked for more detailed help on moving your content to Google Sites, so here are a few quick steps to move your pages to a Google Site.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><ol><li style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: decimal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">In one window of your browser (e.g. Firefox or Chrome), create a new site. You can do this by going to</span><a href="http://sites.google.com/"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">http://sites.google.com</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">.</span></li>
<li style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: decimal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Click the </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Create a page</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> button on your site and click the </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Edit HTML</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> icon on the editor to open the "Edit HTML" code window.</span></li>
<li style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: decimal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">In a different browser window, open one of the pages you’ve downloaded from Groups in the zip file. These .txt files should contain the HTML code for your pages.</span></li>
<li style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: decimal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Copy all the contents on that page and paste it the HTML code window on your Sites page. (Note: Links that point to Groups Pages & Files content will need to be updated. If you have images that were hosted on Groups, you will need to remove them from the code and then </span><a href="http://sites.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=90566"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">upload those images</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> on the Sites editor.)</span></li>
<li style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: decimal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Click </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Update</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> to save your changes.</span></li>
</ol><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Note: If your Sites page looks different from your Groups page, it’s probably because Sites has removed some of the code from your page. You can recreate the look with the Sites editor. Learn more about how to get started with Google Sites with this</span><a href="http://sites.google.com/support/bin/static.py?hl=en&page=guide.cs&guide=23216&from=23216&rd=1"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Getting Started Guide</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">.</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7356608462477731846.post-52211050131701392682010-09-22T13:00:00.000-04:002020-06-15T23:56:20.819-04:00Notice about Pages and Files<span style="font-size: 85%;"><span id="internal-source-marker_0.049892805211643854" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">To focus on improving the core functionality of Google Groups -- mailing lists and forum discussions -- we have decided to stop supporting the pages and files features. Even though we know discontinuing these features may inconvenience some of you in the short term, we believe that this move will improve your experience storing and sharing files as other products, such as Google Docs and Google Sites, are designed specifically for file storage and page creation. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 85%;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">For example, you can create your pages on Google Sites and </span><a href="http://www.google.com/support/sites/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=174623"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">share the site</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> with the members of your group. You can also store your files on the site by </span><a href="http://www.google.com/support/sites/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=90563"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">attaching files to pages</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> on the site. If you’re just looking for a place to upload files so that your group members can download them, we suggest you try using Google Docs. You can </span><a href="http://docs.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=50092"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">upload files</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> and share access with either a </span><a href="http://docs.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=66343"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">group</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> or an </span><a href="http://docs.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=86152"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">individual</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">, assigning either edit or download only access to the files.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 85%;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Starting in January 2011, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Groups</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> will no longer allow the creation or editing of files and pages; the content will only be available for viewing, and only existing files will be able to be downloaded. If you would like to keep the content currently on the pages and files sections of your group, we highly encourage you to export and migrate it to another product. In February 2011, we will turn off the pages and files features, and you will no longer be able to access that content.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 85%;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">To make this move easier for you, we have enabled zip-download functionality to export all the pages and files from your group easily. You can access this</span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> tool by clicking "Download all pages" and "Download all files" feature on the pages and files </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">homepages of your groups.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 85%;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Thanks for taking the time to read this announcement and for using Google Groups.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 85%;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The Google Groups Team</span></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0