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Problems starting a group

Arthur test — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 11:15:11 -0400

I am having 3 probelms with trying to set up a group.

1) Even if I make it a private group ita ppears to be visible to everyone

2) How do you change the settings of a group, ie. change it from Private to Public, I can't find anything to do this with

3) I have invited someone to join a private group, they have got the email, gone to the page and clicked to join. But then it says the Group is set so members can only be added my the moderator. I can't see how I am meant to do this.

Thanks, any help very welcome.

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Images In Preview Mode But Not In Post

Donald Schwartz — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 09:47:16 -0400

Hi All

Any idea “why” embedded images show in preview, but not in post? Suggested work-arounds welcome. For example, see my current post in Technology with text links to images.

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IE 6 problems with FastCo pages

Dale Thompson — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 14:09:41 -0400

Is anyone else experiencing problems with IE 6 taking a flyer when loading certain FastCo pages? I have attached a file showing this for the Big Idea on today's post. Quite annoying actually.

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IE 6 problems with FastCo pages

Dale Thompson — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 14:09:34 -0400

Is anyone else experiencing problems with IE 6 taking a flyer when loading certain FastCo pages? I have attached a file showing this for the Big Idea on today's post. Quite annoying actually.

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Innovation Engineer >> Fast 50 Nomination

Jaxon Teck — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 17:07:02 -0400

"This Fast 50 2008 Application will be submitted for moderation and will not be accessible to other users until it has been approved." Submitted application approx 1 week before deadline. Approved? Unknown. No matter. But where can we find it, or other's = accessible? Would help if a LINK were right there on the Application page, and on future Fast 50 messages for 2008.

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Accept contact invitation feature does not work using email link

Dale Thompson — Wed, 28 May 2008 18:18:25 -0400

I received an invitation today for a contact with the link: http://www.fastcompany.com/buddylist/nnnnn/buddies/requests, where nnnnn is the request number. Selecting the link instantiates the fastcompany page, but the link contents are never displayed. I also signed in to the site separately and saw 2 requests contact invitations, but could not view the profiles of those individuals.

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cannot post to personal blog

Elizabeth Goldstein — Mon, 19 May 2008 15:31:44 -0400

I am unable to post anything at all to my personal blog (though I successfully created a group, a blog for that group, and posting to that blog). Whatever I type, today when I submit I get this message:

! blog : This post can't be referenced.

On previous days I got the message that I was suspected of being spam, but when I typed in the "captcha" and clicked submit, I got the above message. Today it just skips that step. Can anyone help?

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You are not authorized to access this page...

m e — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 21:59:26 -0400

"You are not authorized to access this page..."

I get this reply every now and then when i try to post

(this time to the Fast Talk...when will people want to watch full length

video on a cell phone...)

Please fix

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Musings on th FC site

Martijn Sjoorda — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 06:42:45 -0400

Where is the "Post Comment" button?

How can I see/browse/search the member list of a group that I am part of?

Think user and listening, not push and talk.

Here's a story:

I got the paper FC in the mailbox yesterday. As always, I dove straight into it. I was touched by the passion about the new site and what you are trying to accomplish with it. So I thought: let's give them a chance.

I uploaded my contacts from LinkedIn. I see a list and a button that says: "Send Invitations"

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History Lost

Sridhar Oruganti — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 12:31:29 -0400

Hi,

I had made some recommendations,added my netwrok and commented on a couple of Q & A.However when I logged in just now,I observed that all the data is lost.

Ex:My profile views previously was 40+.Now its 1.

Any suggestions?(btw my password is complicated enough;-)

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How do you Delete a comment or Edit it?

Viv Ilo Veith — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 18:47:44 -0500

I posted a comment on an article that I immediately wanted to edit. (Now, I would just like to delete it!) I can see it on my profile but I see no where to edit or delete it.

Could someone on staff please help me with this? You are welcome to delete both my comments. I flagged them using the "Report Content" button but that was the only thing I could see to do. Thanks.

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Site experience less than optimal so far

Rahel Bailie — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 14:33:50 -0500

I don't know if my experience with the new FC beta site is uniquely problematic, or if others are having the same problems, but I'm finding it frustrating enough that I can't see myself engaging much - if at all - with the community. I belong to a few social networks, run a couple of multi-blog sites, have a conference site that has a social networking component, and so on, so I'm not a newbie. On the other hand, I'm willing to concded if I've overlooked something obvious.

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FastTalk subjects locked

m e — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 10:30:49 -0500

FastTalk topics are "access denied"

if they are about 2 days or more old...so it seems.

I understand that you dont want old ones modified after a certain point,

but hopefully you make them viewable.

In this case I was trying to see what all

was said about Web 3.0

Thamks,

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Blog on content list doesnt show updates

m e — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 22:42:49 -0500

Blog on content list doesnt show updates.

It DOES show when a new posting is there.

It DOES NOT show updated version if on the showing posts

changes. (The version on MyFastCo page has the old version still)

*** Also, i am posting to the Group here...because

since I am a member of the testers, I dont get the normal

feedback screen

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Thanks and keep it coming...

Edward Sussman — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 05:33:11 -0500

Now that the site is out of beta, we've converted this group as a place for site advisors and testers. We hope you'll continue to participate. We have been reviewing your suggestions and acting on many of them. If you haven't seen your fix make it to the site yet, it may be because our developers haven't yet gotten to it. They've literally worked all through the night several days in a row. We'll be rolling out new waves of changes every 48 hours or so. Many thanks, Ed Sussman, FastCompany.com

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The Dreaded Apostrophe

Peter O'Donnell — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 10:29:22 -0500

On behalf of the many Irish members whose names include apostrophes, I'm wondering what can be done to fix how the website handles this character.

Imagine my horror to see the message, 'Welcome back Peter O&#39;Donnell' - can't something be done about that?

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BUG?

Thomas Noon — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 08:06:30 -0500

As a new member I got into a negative loop. In the sign up process at the second screen after checking the boxes about what I was open to related to other members I tried to select the button on hte bottom that continues with the profile process but kept coming back to the home page when I clicked on the button. Hence I remain at 13% complete on my profile.

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Comments

Marti Stegall — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 15:54:13 -0500

When I signed on, I clicked on "My Profile" and realized that there wasn't too much information. The bar at the bottom said I had completed 38% of my profile. I spent quite a bit of time looking for the place to complete my profile and make changes. I was never able to find it. I spent so much time doing that, I didn't have time to spend in the actual website.

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Comments

Marti Stegall — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 15:54:04 -0500

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User Profile - Defect & Usability

Brian Bigelow — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 16:22:31 -0500

Defect: See screenshot. When adding work history on my profile, I was unable to view end date years between 1999 and 2005, which I would expect to show.

Usability:

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Newsletter Format Selection Bug

Aron Strong — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 12:31:22 -0500

I selected several weekly Newsletters. At the bottom I left format option on the default "HTML". When I received the email confirmation of my selections, it said I will receive my newsletters in text format.

I will have to wait to see in which format they actually arrive in.

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Discussion thread interactions

Dave Fletcher — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 22:05:11 -0500

I really like the posted questions and the dialogue that ensues. Anyway to "respond" to an individual comment vs just posting another response? Ideally, the response would be private (to poster only) or public

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beta testing the profile section - updates not happening

John Cramer — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 17:06:21 -0500

Just logged onto the site for the first time in a while to try out the beta site. So far so good. I went into my profile to make some updates and am discovering hitting Save and Continue does neither. Also got kicked out of the session a few times and had to come back in. Has any one else run into problems with profile updates?

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Would Prefer Longer Teasers

Gary Green — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 14:58:35 -0500

Very nice clean design.

I don't know about everyone else, but I find that I prefer more than the beginning of one sentence as a teaser to get me to read a story. It's so frustrating to click on a vague link and then find out that the story doesn't have that much interest to you, then click back to see the story list again, then the same issue the next time. I'd rather see enough of the story to know if it would interest me...

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Bug in Company of Friends

James Carter — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 12:51:19 -0500

I deleted my membership in the company of friends in my old location and got the email below. Unless removing yourself from a group is considered inappriopriate behavior ;-), this is a bug.

You have been removed from the XXX XXXXX - Company of Friends group due to activity that is deemed

inappropriate for the group and/or for Fast Company. As the group moderator,

your membership may be reactiviated at my discretion.

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