[committee] Fixing Facebook Group

[trs80 at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au]

On Mon, 15 Oct 2018, trs80 at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au wrote:

> On Mon, 15 Oct 2018, Oscar Hermoso wrote:
> 
> > When the group is below 250, you can invite all members regardless of whether they're friends. When UCC hosts an event, they're
> > restricted because the admins don't have everyone as Facebook friends. Because of this, we never hit the 500 member cap anyway.
> > Committee first had this problem since at least 2014 when I was secretary as we approached 300 members.
> > 
> > As far as I'm aware there's no centralised platform for this information. I grabbed it
> > from https://www.quora.com/How-can-I-invite-all-members-in-a-Facebook-group-to-an-event
> 
> Ah. Although with that information I have now found this one which says
> 
> "If your group is smaller than 500 people, you can invite your entire 
> group to the event by clicking Invite all members while creating your 
> event. For larger events, you must select the members you'd like to 
> invite. Keep in mind that if someone removes themselves from a group 
> event, they can't be added again."
> 
> https://www.facebook.com/help/167159300010051
> 
> I guess remove 33 members and then see if you can invite everyone to an event?

Notably, it seems to have changed in the last 3 years - 
https://www.facebook.com/help/community/question/?id=10152091163960091 has 
a comment that quotes this link as saying 250 
https://www.facebook.com/help/231507983530573 but it now redirects to 
https://www.facebook.com/help/167159300010051 (as above) which says 500.

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