I am having the same problem entering name<emailaddress> no longer includes the person's name, make finding people who have forgotten their email address impossible.

Yes, this is very frustrating.   I happen to know the email addresses and can identify the members but I want to have a list with their names as well as their email addresses.

Google Groups please help us.

It is vital Google fix this problem - it would appear  the designers have never actually used a group, otherwise the would not have put the update out without the facility of adding names to the email addresses!

Google please fix this issue.  I manage a group of almost 400 people.  If I cannot readily map email addresses (which most often do not define the member adequately for management) management of the group becomes a nightmare. I've read of concerns where someone's name exposes their private info (their name??).  If that is really an issue then perhaps adding a field that is not exposed to other members but can be used by group managers to help identify members.

Serious issue if we lose the ability to have display names given and surname that is currently available in Classic.

When are you going to fix this problem?  I cannot remember the NAMES of almost 200 members by their email addresses.  It's very frustrating.  Please, please fix this!!!

I realize that, and I did, and when one does, there is a notice to the effect of, "Don't you want to try New -- Classic will be going away soon."

Thanks for your reply.

Thanks for the response.  I knew and used the classic interface to accomplish the task at hand.  The real problem is that, if Google does not fix this in the new interface the ability to accomplish this type of task will be lost when the classic interface is retired and no longer available to all.

I don't know how to change back to the original format.

What @Phil Church said -- BINGO.

@LMcKin51 That is helpful, thank you.

THANK YOU LMcKin51  !!!

Thank you for your reply !!

I want to be able to put the members name as we did before.  This upgrade sucks!  I manage a HOA group with many members, now I can't see who is there and who is not.  Members don't always have their names included in their email address.  This is very frustrating!

Yes, I agree - this needs to be fixed. As someone who manages a large group with individual email addresses that don't necessarily include their names in their email, it becomes very confusing as to who is in the list. Have tried "NAME" <EMAILADDRESS" and Name <emailaddress> as well. Needs to be fixed ASAP

This update is terrible.  I need to add a name and email in my groups.  Google needs to contact me.

My members will NOT join a thread if they do not know the name of the persons posting to the thread.  We MUST be able to add a display name when direct adding a new subscriber.  Google Groups is almost useless to us without that feature.  We will abandon it.  What were you thinking?

At the time of adding a new member with the new interface, the display name (First Name, Second Name) is shown - so you think it is going to be stored as it was with the Classic interface. But then the display name is overwritten by the first part of the email address (before the @) so this part of the email address is needlessly duplicated. 

I just wasted an hour on this, before finding out it is a bug (God help us if it's a feature) of the new interface.  I actually started googling "alternatives to Google Groups".   PLEASE FIX THIS and DON'T JUST LOCK THE THREAD as so many other threads were misleadingly locked as if the problem had been "solved."

Get rid of these Gen X, Y Z. snotty nose kids and fix this problem. FIRST AND LAST NAMES BE ADDED TO GOOGLE GROUPS!!!

Agreed that creating members with full names (in addition to email addresses) is very important. Switching back to the old Groups interface helps, but that will be disappearing one of these days.

Why has this not been done yet ??????????

I have the same problem and with all the home schooling I do I really need the the names and the email. Please let us know when fix is in>

I note that in spite of numerous requests, this simple modification has not bee applied by Google technicians yet - all we seem to get is try New Groups. Please advise when this modification will be applied to New Groups as until then, no Group Administrator in their right mind will be using New Groups.

It is apparent that Google doesn't care about users.  They know best.  Wish there was a competitor.

I did NOT choose the Gmail profile in creating the original group.

You wrote: -when you created your Groups if you choosed the Google profile under the google member permission  then the member name will be choose by thier google profile name.

So frustrating not to be able to add a member's name and not just an e-mail address.

Google Groups - Please fix this!  I cannot manage a group without a real name!

This option is very important to a lot of us. ALSO: please set it so we can edit names too: people change names, email address, add or subtract family members. I for one will have to go back to using email groups only if not an option, I can't memorize everyone's email address to put with a name

Update need

Unbelievable! We worked for three years to get our group directory set up so it displays a person's first name and then their email address (example:  John Doe<gdoe@gmail.com>), and now with the new Google Group view, I cannot. This is not acceptable. Now I cannot even switch back to Classic view to fix it because you have disabled the Classic view. Please update the app so we can once again direct add people so we can control the display name in Google Groups. Thank you.

I agree with Betty.  There is no way to list members names in the new Google Groups view.  Please fix this.

I am having the same update problem!!!!!

This is really a problem and is bringing the operation of my club to a standstill.  Does anyone know how you can communicate with Google regarding this problem?

Has anyone found a workaround for the display name issue?

The classic view is no longer available so that is not an option to resolve this.  Plus, changing the profile to show the name would only work if they have a gmail account.  Many of my 1800+ members do not have gmail account.  There needs to be a better option to resolve this.

This STILL will not work. Why, not everyone who has a Google account has updated their profile to show a meaningful first name, last name. AND...not everyone uses Google. Please tell me how I can control a member's display name as I was able to do under the old version. Others have requested this feature to come back also. Thank you.

That did not work.  I am adding new employees to our group and the member name displays their email address not their first and last name.  I have been unable to update this information since the classic was updated.   Any advice?

Now that Classic View has been removed - please can you tell me how I can add a person's first and last name when adding a new email address to our group?

But when I tried that, I am only allowed to 'Invite' and not direct add new members.

Yes, but many of our users have been signed up with their email addresses only, and may not have used a Google account.  We need a solution that works with all address scenarios!

Dear Google, you have been inundated with requests to update the new Google Groups so that members name can be added as in the defunct Classic view.

... and another complaint about this.  The "recommended answer" (switch to classic groups) does not seem to work any more because I can't find a way to make that switch.  I guess we get what we pay for :-(

I have just had to move from YahooGroups since Verizon terminated the service. With Google I've taken a step backwards not being able to input or edit members' names.