Hi Peter; This appears to be very useful (I have to assume, I'm not "Neo-ed" yet. Does that make me "Paleo"?)
In any case, may we make this part of a FAQ for the list? I can see that being handy for a while. Best regards; Pieter Roos Sent from my iPhone On Sep 29, 2013, at 9:16 AM, Peter Vanvliet <gro...@fourthray.com> wrote: > > > 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 photo albums 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 I own, to try to embed 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 (most often 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. > > > -- > > Peter Vanvliet (pe...@fourthray.com) > Houston, Texas > > My Model Railroad Site (RSS feed) > Fourth Ray Software > Houston S Gaugers > N.A.S.G. > -- > > >
