New Look for Google Groups

[Daniel Rivera]

Hello everyone,

As I understand it, the New Look isn't yet available for Google Apps groups, but I seemed to have stumbled on it.  I'm not sure if it's a bug or if I need to take some action to officially activate it but, here's my experience and I was hoping someone could clarify.

If I visit groups.google.com directly, I see the new look.  If I then click to get to our university groups, it maintains the new look:

However, if I go to Google Groups via our sandbar in our university mail, I get the Old look.  There is a difference in the URLs (one uses form the other groups).

My questions:

• Since the new look seems to be working, how can we turn it on by default?  I've enabled it for my account, but it only works when I go there from groups.google.com
• is this a bug?  Does anyone else have the new look for Google Groups?

Thanks for any advice you can give,

[Jeff Bartlett]

See notes below - Hope this helps.

• To Turn on go to: Cpanel, Settings, Email.
• http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2011/11/gmails-new-look.html - Nov 1st Announcement.
• Goes perm around 2nd week of Jan, if you flip your domain now users can opt out until perm.

Regards,

Jeff

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[Daniel Rivera]

Thanks Jeff.  I know about the new look, and I've already enabled it for my gmail, calendar, docs, etc.  I've even clicked to preview the new look in Groups.  

What I mean is that there seems to be an inconsistency in Groups depending on how I access it.  Sometimes it shows the new look, and sometimes it doesn't.  I'm using the new look right now for example, because I went first to Groups.google.com (though I'm still accessing the /a/appsusersgroup.com  domain)  but if I come to the same group, same domain, via our sandbar in gmail, it reverts to the old look.

[Nicholas Young]

Daniel,

I get the same experience you are talking about (signing in via groups.google.com gives me the new look versus /a/ncsu.edu gives me the old look).

What's even more interesting, is that in the new look, I do not get a list of the groups i am a member of (when i click on My Groups, I don't have anything listed). It does say however, "You also belong to groups in 1 other domain. show"  which then links to "View 1 group at appsusersgroup.com" 

...but i can never see the 4 groups within ncsu.edu that I am a member of, which do show up correctly if im viewing groups via the old interface.

Anyone else having this/these issues?

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On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 2:47 PM, Daniel Rivera <dri...@georgiasouthern.edu> wrote:

Thanks Jeff.  I know about the new look, and I've already enabled it for my gmail, calendar, docs, etc.  I've even clicked to preview the new look in Groups.  

What I mean is that there seems to be an inconsistency in Groups depending on how I access it.  Sometimes it shows the new look, and sometimes it doesn't.  I'm using the new look right now for example, because I went first to Groups.google.com (though I'm still accessing the /a/appsusersgroup.com  domain)  but if I come to the same group, same domain, via our sandbar in gmail, it reverts to the old look.

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[Daniel Rivera]

yeah, I can force the new look by either navigating to it via groups.google.com  or by changing the URL:

replace:   .../a/georgiasouthern.edu/group/

with:   .../a/georgiasouthern.edu/forum/#!forum/  (new look)

[Jordan Pedraza]

Hi All,

An update from the Groups team:

This behavior is expected and there's currently no option to opt-in the entire domain, but we're working on bringing the new UI to Apps users as soon as possible.

Thanks!

Jordan Pedraza | Google Apps for Education | jordan...@google.com 

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[Daniel Rivera]

Great! At least I'm not crazy. :-D

On Dec 9, 2:17 pm, Jordan Pedraza <jordanpedr...@google.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> An update from the Groups team:
>
> This behavior is expected and there's currently no option to opt-in the
> entire domain, but we're working on bringing the new UI to Apps users as
> soon as possible.
>
> Thanks!
>

> Jordan Pedraza | Google Apps for Education | jordanpedr...@google.com

>
> On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 9:46 AM, Daniel Rivera

> <driv...@georgiasouthern.edu>wrote:

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> > yeah, I can force the new look by either navigating to it via
> > groups.google.com  or by changing the URL:
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> > *replace:  * .../a/georgiasouthern.edu/*group/*
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> > *with: *  .../a/georgiasouthern.edu/*forum/#!forum*/  (new look)

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