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Groups

Rooms with their own members and their own rules — how the three kinds differ, who can read what, and what an admin can do.

A group is a room. It has its own members, its own posts and its own rules, and a post written inside it reaches everybody in the group rather than the people who follow you.

That is the part worth understanding first: posting in a group is not posting to your followers. It is the one place on Easybie where who reads you is decided by the room rather than by your own audience setting.

Groups are at Groups in the sidebar. Make one with Start a group.

The three kinds Copy a link to this section

You choose one when you create the group. Only the owner can change it afterwards — see below for why.

  • Public — anyone can read it and join. Posts can reach the feeds of people who are not members.
  • Private — anyone can find it and ask to join. Only members can read what is in it.
  • Hidden — not listed anywhere and not findable by name. Only people already in it can add anyone.

A private group is findable on purpose. That is how anybody ever asks to join one. Hidden is the setting for a room that should not turn up in a search at all, and the cost of it is that the only way in is an invitation from somebody already inside.

Changing a private group to public publishes what is already in it Copy a link to this section

This is not an edit. It takes writing that people put in a room on the understanding that the room was shut, and publishes it, retroactively.

So the setting tells the owner how many posts that is before the change is made — a number, not a warning — and only the owner can make the call. Nobody else, including admins.

Who can see the member list Copy a link to this section

Members, and only members. This is narrower than who can read the group, and deliberately so: in a public group, anybody can read the posts.

Reading who posted in a room and reading who is in it are two different disclosures. The posts name their own authors and always did. The roster also names everybody who joined and never said a word — and for a room about health, money, faith, politics or simply a bad year, being on the list is the sensitive part, not anything written inside.

The count stays visible to everybody, because "6 members" is the fact a stranger actually needs in order to decide whether to join. The six names are not.

The tabs Copy a link to this section

Posts, Media, About, Members and Settings — the last two only if you are allowed them.

Media collects every picture posted in the group, newest first. It is the same rules as the posts, narrowed to the room, so nothing shows up there that you could not have seen anyway.

About is the description, the rules, who started it and when.

Joining and being let in Copy a link to this section

In a public group, Join and you are in. In a private one, Ask to join puts you in a queue the admins see under Member requests, where they Let in or Dismiss. The button says Requested while you wait.

Invite somebody to join is on the Members tab. An invitation can be withdrawn before it is answered — Take it back.

Leave this group is in Settings. Leaving a private group means asking again if you change your mind, and it says so before you press it.

Owners and admins Copy a link to this section

Two roles beyond being a member.

Admins can let people in, invite, remove members, pin a post, take a post out of the group, and edit the description and rules. Make an admin and Make a member are on each row of the Members tab.

The owner is the person who started it, and has one power no admin has: changing the group's privacy. Hand over gives the group to somebody else, and there is exactly one owner at a time.

Pinning and removing posts Copy a link to this section

An admin can Pin to the top one post, which then sits above the others marked Pinned, and Unpin it again.

Remove from group takes a post out of the room. It stops being readable there. It is a moderation tool for the room and is separate from reporting, which goes to Easybie's own moderators — see Reporting.

How long each field can be Copy a link to this section

  • Name — 2 to 80 characters
  • What it is for — up to 500
  • The rules here — up to 4,000

Posts inside a group follow the ordinary post limit of 10,000 characters.

Groups and closing your account Copy a link to this section

If you are the only owner of a group, it closes when your account does. The account-closing page shows you which groups those are before you go through with it, so you can hand them over first — see Closing your account.