Group,
I hadn't visited the groups' Yahoo page in a while, although my account
had been "neo"ed very early on. Wanting to look at the photos people had
posted in the past week, I logged into my account. I found this with
regard to photos:
To view the photos, click on the "Photos" topic near the top of the
page, under the Search field. You will then see two sub-topics, one
called Photostream and one called Albums. The Albums get the default
selection. On the far right you will see the "New Album" purple button.
To its left, however, is a sort-by selection control. If you select
"Latest First" in that field, you will see the photoalbums sorted by the
last date that they were modified.
If you don't want to view the photos by album,you can just see a "raw
dump" of all the photos in the reverse order (i.e. newest first) that
they were added, by clicking on the "Photostream" sub-topic.
I don't see Bill's home page photo anymore, which I think is a shame,
but I do kind of like the new interface. I am the owner/co-owner of a
couple of groups, and I do not see anywhere where the group owner can
set the home page photo, so that may be a feature they got rid of
altogether. I tried putting HTML code into the group's description of a
group Iown, to try toembed a photo, but Yahoo stripped that off, so
there is no way to do this using HTML coding, either.
The messages (now called "Conversations") can be sorted by topic,
message, or trending (meaning the hotest, most responded to, messages
grouped near the top). Adding a new message can be done via the "New
Topic" purple button. Once you click on that, you will see a pop-up
window. This window allows you to enter the subject and the message, and
apply all sorts of formatting to the text. On the left side of the group
of text-massaging icons is a paperclip icon that allows you to attach a
file (mostoften an image file)to your message. When you click that, you
will be able to browse your computer's disk drive to look for the image
file that you want to attach to the message.
I hope this info is of use to some of you who have been "neo"ed.
- Peter.
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