I just realized that Frank sent this to the lutelist rather than directly back to me. To clear up any confusion if present, the ning lutegroup cannot function as an email chat group, it’s forum based. That was the case with the old Ning 2.0 platform and the current Ning 3.0 platform, despite its several improvements
Danny > On Sep 11, 2020, at 5:06 PM, Frank A. Gerbode, M.D. <sa...@gerbode.net> wrote: > > I really appreciate your efforts, David, but as I mentioned, one of the > things I have liked about the old group is that for me it is easier to > use. I simply get messages put in my "lute list" folder automatically, > and thus I can store them readily on my local machine. It is also > useful to have a pane containing a list of, say, 20 emails with their > subjects so I can easily select which ones to look at or respond to > instead of having to scroll down a list of partially displayed > messages. I can also delete the messages that I don't need so they > don't get in the way of the ones I do need. Maybe there will be ways of > using the new group that can answer these concerns, and maybe it's just > that this old dog can't learn new tricks that easily, but as things > stand I will find the new list less useful. > --Sarge > > On 9/11/2020 12:17, Lutegroup wrote: > > A couple days into the upgrade and very few major issues reported. > Thankfully all login information seems to have transferred OK. > > Remaining issues > > 1) At first all videos embedded from YouTube or Vimeo added before 2014 > were not showing up properly. The YouTube issue was fixed but > apparently old Vimeo embeds used Flash in a way not supported in 3.0. I > think this impacts very few older videos. If it impacts you, my > apologies and please feel free to re-upload/embed again. Should be no > problem with the new embed codes from Vimeo > > 2) Some new members have old accounts under another email. If this > applies to you and you did this on purpose, please let me know which of > the accounts you would like me to delete. > > 3) One of the features I did not activate was a personal Blog page. I > felt that most personal musings could have a home in the discussion > forum or events page and it was a minimally utilized feature on the old > site. I made a mistake when I set up the personal web page and included > a place for adding blogs, but since there was no actual blog page it > didn't show. Please let me know if you would want this feature on the > new site and as long as people are not writing 10,000 page manifestos > we could support it. > > Daniel Shoskes ([1]dshos...@mac.com) > > Visit Lutegroup at: > [2]https://lutegroup.ning.com/?xg_source=msg_mes_network > > > To control which emails you receive on Lutegroup, [3]click here > > -- > Frank A. Gerbode, M.D. ([4]sa...@gerbode.net) > 11132 Dell Ave > Forestville, CA 95436-9491 > Home phone: 707-820-1759 > Website: [5]http://www.gerbode.net > "The map may not be the territory, but it's all we've got." > > -- > > References > > 1. mailto:dshos...@mac.com > 2. https://lutegroup.ning.com/?xg_source=msg_mes_network > 3. > https://Lutegroup.ning.com/main/profilesettings/email?xg_source=msg_mes_network > 4. mailto:sa...@gerbode.net > 5. http://www.gerbode.net/ > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
