blee2 Lv 1
How do I invite students to join a group if it is private?
Updated website!
Started by bkoep
LociOiling Lv 1
@blee2 you seem to have spotted a problem. There's no way to invite a new group member. You may have already found a workaround, which is to make the group public, let players search for it and join, then make the group private again. You can always remove unauthorized players.
The format of the groups page makes it somewhat unlikely that a random player will find your group, so this doesn't seem like such a bad solution at the moment.
bkoep Staff Lv 1
@blee2
How do I invite students to join a group if it is private?
If you are the group owner, you can go to any player profile (like @bkoep), and you should see a button "Invite to Group" under their profile picture.
We understand this is a little unintuitive. We should be able to add an invite button on the group page itself.
LociOiling Lv 1
I stand corrected, the procedure outlined by bkoep does work. We'll need to add that one to the FAQ.
LociOiling Lv 1
@dheilman for those who were having problems with Foldit not running at all, there's now an updated installer under "Download" here at fold.it. I was having a problem with Foldit not running on one machine, but that's fixed now. There is still a problem with the Foldit website having spells where it's unavailable or very slow for a few minutes. Also, at least on the numbered puzzles, the scores seen in the Foldit game may not match what's shown on the Foldit website. Restarting the game and resuming work should clear things up, at least temporarily. I'm not sure if the campaign puzzles are affected the same way, but the beginner puzzles probably are.
LociOiling Lv 1
On the "scores out of sync" issue, an additional workaround is to simply reload the puzzle from the control+p puzzle menu. This seems to ensure that Foldit and the website are back in touch, at least for a while. Restarting Foldit is not required if reopening the puzzle works.
toshiue Lv 1
IRC. I'm the only one on in my group, and only two of us on veterans. No admins in either.
toshiue Lv 1
IRC. Still no FoldIt IRC, external IRC client seems to work but only two of in veterans chat.
LociOiling Lv 1
Yep, external IRC is working again, but no joy in either the old or the new Foldit clients.
jeff101 Lv 1
For a while an old client from before the new Foldit website kept Foldit's built-in chat connected for me, but this client is no longer connected to built-in chat and hasn't been letting me reconnect to built-in chat.