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What Groups UI features are different for different users?
I'm not talking about the distinction between members, moderators, and owners. The role distinctions I understand.
What I've noticed is that when signed in with one of my Yahoo Accounts (the one I'm using here in Answers) my group's page looks like the image above. It has icons to represent the various web features, and it does not have a padlock in the address bar. If I sign out, and sign back in with one of my other accounts the page looks different. The links to the web features are text, not icons, and there is a padlock in the address bar.
So the primary question is: what else is different depending on which account signs in?
The secondary question is: why? Has my primary account been placed in some unannounced beta test of the UI? Or has my secondary account been left behind in a rollout that was supposed to be widespread?
Note: the image is from IE 11. The same is observed in Firefox 29 and Chrome. All on Win7 Pro 64-bit.
Thanks for looking into it Echo.
I don't mind being a test subject. Quite the contrary: I encourage Yahoo to test these things out internally first then with select users before general roll-out. But that select group needs to know what's happening, and preferably opt-in for it, otherwise confusion and possibly anger ensues.
Found another variation: both icons and text.
1 Answer
- Echo SandersLv 77 years ago
Hey Shal,
I honestly have no idea why you're seeing that and I can't replicate it in any of my accounts or back-end systems I have access to. So, I've reached out to the head engineers to see what they're up to.
Source(s): Sorry for the inconvenience caused by this issue!
