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Groups.io Updates @groups.io · 03/10/2026

✉️ [beta] Site updates #changelog beta.groups.io/g/main/topic/1215589…

Changes to the site this week: September 28, 2026: API BUGFIX: Calling /updatemember without the member_labels parameter removed all of the member's labels. The labels are now left unchanged when member_labels is omitted; to remove all labels, send a single empty member_labels value. API BUGFIX: When /updatemember was used to create more than one new label at once, every new label got the first name in new_label_names, so only one was created. Each new_ ID in member_labels now uses its own name, color, and description. If a label with that name already exists in the group, it is assigned instead of failing. API BUGFIX: /getmember, /getmembers, and /updatemember never included the member_labels field in the member info object, even when the member had labels. They now return it for callers with the manage members permission. September 29, 2026: BUGFIX: In dark mode, the plain text and Markdown message editors showed dark text on a dark background, making it very hard to see what you were typing. Typed text is now shown in a light color. BUGFIX: When composing in plain text or Markdown with a signature turned on, reopening a saved reply draft showed only your signature instead of the draft, and the next autosave replaced the draft with just the signature. Reopened reply drafts now show their saved text. This affected all groups set to plain text only. BUGFIX: Fastmail users subscribed to a group's calendar feed stopped getting updates, because Fastmail's calendar service was mistakenly treated as an outdated web browser and sent a web page instead of the calendar. Calendar feeds now sync to Fastmail again. The same mistake could also block other apps whose browser identification included punctuation after the version number. BUGFIX: Creating the first subgroup of a group appeared to do nothing: the page stayed where it was, even though the subgroup had been created. Creating later subgroups went to the new subgroup's page, but the sidebar kept pointing at the parent group, so choosing Settings from the sidebar could lead to deleting the parent group instead of the new subgroup. Creating a subgroup now fully loads the new subgroup, sidebar included. beta.groups.io BUGFIX: After renaming a group or subgroup in Settings, most of the sidebar links still used the old name and led to an error page. The page now fully reloads after a rename, so the sidebar uses the new name. beta.groups.io BUGFIX: After deleting a subgroup, you were taken to whichever of your groups pages you had last visited. You're now taken to the parent group. beta.groups.io BUGFIX: On the Create Subgroup page, if there was a problem with the address or description, the subgroup address and visibility you had entered were cleared. They are now kept, and if the address is the problem, the cursor is placed in the address field. beta.groups.io CHANGE: When working with a subgroup, the delete button in Settings, the Delete page, and the confirmation dialog now say "Delete Subgroup" and refer to the subgroup, making it clearer which one you're about to delete. "THIS ACTION CANNOT BE UNDONE." is now also shown in bold on the Delete page. beta.groups.io BUGFIX: The Muted Hashtags and Followed Hashtags pages showed a "Your Groups" link in their breadcrumb that actually took you to your Feed. On phones, it was the only part of the breadcrumb shown. Those pages now show just their own name, like the other pages in your account's sidebar. beta.groups.io CHANGE: The Mute Hashtag, Follow Hashtag, and Unmute Hashtag pages now have a breadcrumb that links back to your Muted Hashtags or Followed Hashtags list. BUGFIX: The "Your Activity" heading on your account's Activity page was always shown in English. It is now translated. BUGFIX: Downloading a large file from a group's Files section over a slower connection could fail partway through with a "Network error", usually after a couple of minutes. It wasn't a size limit: our servers were cutting off any download that ran longer than that. Downloads now run until they finish. The same problem could also interrupt slow uploads of large files. beta.groups.io BUGFIX: An interrupted download from a group's Files section could not be resumed; your browser's Resume button started the download over from the beginning. Downloads can now be resumed where they left off, and your browser now shows the file size and time remaining while downloading. beta.groups.io INTERNAL: blockerd now blocks IP addresses with firewall sets on the load balancers instead of an nginx deny list, so adding or removing a block no longer reloads nginx. September 30, 2026: BUGFIX: If you were set to show 50 or 100 items per page and edited a topic's properties from the second or later page of Topics, clicking Update returned you to Topics showing only 20 topics per page, and paging kept using 20 until you left Topics. Your per-page setting is now kept. beta.groups.io BUGFIX: On the Edit Topic Properties page, Cancel always took you to the topic, even if you had come from the Topics list or search results. Update from a topic's own page took you to the first page of Topics instead of back to the topic. Both Cancel and Update now return you to where you came from. beta.groups.io BUGFIX: Members of a group that requires two-factor authentication, who hadn't set it up yet, couldn't add a passkey. It failed with errors such as "Failed to add passkey: The string did not match the expected pattern." Adding a passkey now works for them. CHANGE: A passkey now counts as two-factor authentication. Adding one satisfies a group's two-factor requirement, just like an authentication app, and the page asking you to set up two-factor now offers both options. If you have a passkey, you can turn off your authentication app even when a group requires two-factor. You can't delete your last passkey while a group requires two-factor and you have no authentication app. CHANGE: If your only second factor is a passkey, logging in with your password, a login link, or single sign-on now also asks for your passkey, or for one of your recovery codes, before you're logged in. Previously your password alone was enough. Passkeys only work on the site where you added them, so if you added yours on another site (for example, groups.io rather than your organization's own address), you're offered a button to confirm it there. As with authentication apps, logging in with Google or Facebook is no longer allowed for accounts with a passkey. CHANGE: Logging in with a passkey now always requires your device's fingerprint, face, or PIN. Security keys without a PIN set can no longer be used to log in. API CHANGE: For accounts whose only second factor is a passkey, /login and /authenticateloginlink now return 2nd_factor_required; supply one of the account's recovery codes in twofactor. /googleloginfinal and /facebookloginfinal now refuse these accounts, as they already do for accounts with an authentication app. INTERNAL: Disabling two-factor from the support queue or admin now also removes the account's passkeys, and the support queue offers it for accounts that only have passkeys. October 1, 2026: BUGFIX: Image descriptions (alt text) containing common punctuation, such as a colon, question mark, ampersand, curly quotation marks, or a curly apostrophe, were silently removed from images in wiki pages and messages, and saving the page again lost them for good. Screen readers then had nothing to read for those images. Descriptions with punctuation are now kept. Descriptions that were already removed can't be restored and need to be entered again. BUGFIX: After entering a wrong two-factor or recovery code when logging in, entering the correct code sent you back to the start of login instead of logging you in. You can now try again with the correct code. October 2, 2026: BUGFIX: Messages sent to a group from Proton Mail, and occasionally from other email providers, were sometimes bounced with "Invalid request, no reverse DNS", even though the sending server was set up correctly. It happened when a lookup of the sending server's name briefly failed on our end. A brief lookup failure now asks the sending server to try again later instead of bouncing the message, and we check with a second, independent DNS service before treating the lookup as failed. BUGFIX: Since September 30, some messages sent to a group from iCloud (me.com, icloud.com, mac.com) were delivered with a large block of raw, encoded text instead of the formatted message, and failed DKIM checks at Gmail. iCloud began adding stray characters to one of its message headers, and we passed them on to members, which made Gmail and other email programs think the headers ended early. We now remove those characters when a message arrives, so iCloud messages display normally. BUGFIX: When a member's Yahoo Mail account automatically forwarded to another address that rejected the message, the bounce recorded for the member just said "5.0.0", with no hint of the real cause. Yahoo had changed the format of these forwarding failure notices. The bounce now shows the forwarding address and the reason it was rejected, for example that the account doesn't exist, so members and moderators can tell that the problem is the forward and not the member's Yahoo address. BUGFIX: When sending a message to a member from their member page, clicking Discard took you to the group's home page, even though sending took you back to the member page. Discard now returns you to the page you started from: the member page, the Members list, an RSVP or poll responses list, or a chat. beta.groups.io BUGFIX: The Bcc: Me and Bcc: All Moderators checkboxes on the Send Message page, and the BCC Me checkbox when replying to the sender or the moderators of a topic, still had the old look. They now match the site's other checkboxes, and clicking the Bcc: Me and Bcc: All Moderators labels on the Send Message page now toggles their checkboxes. beta.groups.io BUGFIX: When a member with a group signature replied by email from a program that doesn't mark the earlier message as a quote, such as Samsung Email or Outlook, their signature was hidden on the website in the collapsed "..." along with the earlier message, because the signature was added at the very end, after the earlier message. When a reply is written above the earlier message, the signature is now added between the reply and the earlier message, where email programs put signatures. A signature that still ends up after the earlier message is now recognized and shown. Messages already posted are unchanged. beta.groups.io The next #changelog will be published on October 9, 2026. Take care everyone. Mark

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Groups.io Updates @groups.io · 25/09/2026

✉️ [beta] Site updates #changelog beta.groups.io/g/main/topic/1214309…

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Groups.io Updates @groups.io · 19/09/2026

✉️ [beta] Site updates #changelog beta.groups.io/g/main/topic/1213261…

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Groups.io Updates @groups.io · 12/09/2026

✉️ [beta] Site updates #changelog beta.groups.io/g/main/topic/1212102…

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Groups.io Updates @groups.io · 05/09/2026

✉️ [beta] Site updates #changelog beta.groups.io/g/main/topic/1210973…

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Groups.io Updates @groups.io · 29/08/2026

✉️ [beta] Site updates #changelog beta.groups.io/g/main/topic/1209820…

Changes to the site this week: August 26, 2026: API BUGFIX: Paginated API endpoints treated an invalid or out of range page_token as the first page while still reporting has_more, so a client with a bad token would loop over the first page forever. Such a token now returns an empty page with has_more false. beta.groups.io API BUGFIX: The last page of /gettopics results within a group reported has_more along with a next_page_token that was not a valid cursor, causing an invalid_value error when used. Paging through a group's topics now terminates cleanly. August 27, 2026: BUGFIX: When viewing a message, the "View All Messages" link always loaded the first page of the topic, so if the message was not within the first page — including a reply you had just posted — it was nowhere in view. The link now takes you to the page of the topic containing the message and positions on it, in either sort direction. beta.groups.io CHANGE: In groups set so that messages from members can only be tagged with existing hashtags, moderators could always create new hashtags by including them in a message subject, even without the "Create or Modify Hashtags" permission — meaning a typo in a subject line could silently create a new hashtag. That permission is now honored when posting: a moderator without it is treated like a regular member, and their message is bounced or the new hashtag removed, depending on the group setting. Owners, moderators with the permission, and groups using the default hashtag setting are unaffected. BUGFIX: When composing a message in the web interface on a phone-sized screen, the editor toolbar was missing most of its formatting tools — alignment, lists, indents, blockquote, and the extended formatting menu (fonts, colors, strikethrough, special characters) were gone entirely, with no way to reach them, even by rotating to landscape. The full set of formatting tools is now available on mobile: the most-used buttons stay visible, and the rest are behind a ... overflow at the end of the toolbar. beta.groups.io BUGFIX: The "view all your groups" links at the top of HTML digests and daily summaries, and in the default Welcome notice, pointed at the site home page — which took logged-in members to whatever page they last used as their home view instead of their groups list, and showed logged-out members the front page. Those links now go directly to the Your Groups page, and if you are logged out, you are prompted to log in and then taken there. beta.groups.io API BUGFIX: The documentation for /addrepeatevent and /updaterepeatevent listed the wrong values for several repeat parameters. repeat_type was described as 1=daily, 2=weekly, 3=monthly, 4=yearly, when 2 actually means every Monday/Wednesday/Friday and weekly on selected days is 4, so a client following the documentation to create a weekly event silently got a Monday/Wednesday/Friday series instead. The repeat_ends values for "times" and "date" were also reversed, and the month_type values were wrong and incomplete. The documentation now matches the implementation, and both endpoints reject an out of range repeat_type with bad_request: invalid repeat_type instead of quietly creating a different repeat pattern. An unparseable timezone, which shifted every occurrence to the wrong day of the week, is now rejected the same way. API BUGFIX: /updaterepeatevent, /splitrepeatevent and /deleterepeatevent still acted on repeating events that had already been deleted; updating or splitting one brought the series back and started generating its occurrences again. They now return bad_request for a deleted series. BUGFIX: A deleted repeating event could come back on its own. If the series had been created from an emailed calendar invitation, a later invitation carrying the same event id — a re-send, or an update from the organizer's calendar program — recreated it as a new live series, and an RSVP reply to a reminder email sent before the deletion could do the same. Deleting a repeating event now sticks: invitations and RSVP replies for a deleted series are ignored. NEW: Calendar events that request RSVPs and have a maximum attendee limit now display a badge on the calendar showing the number of spots still available, or Full when the event has reached its limit — so you can scan a month of events for one with space without opening each event. The badge appears in the month, week, day, and list views of both a group's calendar and the consolidated calendar, and hovering over it shows the details. Events without an attendance limit are unchanged. beta.groups.io beta.groups.io CHANGE: In the activity log, entries for topics that were automatically deleted because a hashtag expired were filed under "Hashtag - Expired" — an easy place to overlook when looking for a deleted topic, since every other deletion is listed under "Message - ..." or "Topic - ...". The action is now named "Topic - Deleted due to expired hashtag" and appears in the action filter directly after "Topic - Deleted". Existing log entries are unaffected other than the new name. beta.groups.io NEW: The Direct Add page of a group with subgroups now has a "Restore previous subgroup memberships" checkbox, unchecked by default. When checked, anyone being added who was previously a member of the group is also added back to the subgroups they belonged to when they were removed, with their previous delivery settings, and the subgroups are listed in the notice they receive. This helps groups that remove members when a paid membership lapses and re-add them when they renew — previously, the person's subgroup memberships had to be rebuilt by hand. Moderator and owner roles are not restored, and subgroups explicitly checked on the page are added with default settings as before. It works for removals that predate this feature. API NEW: /directadd accepts a new optional boolean parameter, restore_subgroups, equivalent to the new "Restore previous subgroup memberships" checkbox. Restored subgroup memberships are included in the response's added_members. BUGFIX: Banning an email address that didn't already have a Groups.io account ran the address through the same validation used for new registrations, so addresses on disposable email domains, role accounts like postmaster@, and similar were rejected with "That email address is not valid" — exactly the addresses moderators most want to ban. Banning now only requires that the address be a plausible email address. beta.groups.io CHANGE: Activity log entries for event RSVPs named the event but not its date, so with repeating events — which all share the same name — there was no way to tell which occurrence someone had RSVPed to without opening each instance on the calendar. RSVP entries now include the event's date, e.g. "RSVPed yes to event Weekly Training (scheduled for Sep 16)". This also covers RSVPs removed or changed by a moderator, waitlist promotions, and attendee comment edits. The dates — including those already shown on added/updated/deleted event entries — are now displayed using your timezone and date format preferences. Existing log entries are unchanged. beta.groups.io CHANGE: Changed the second batch of web pages from Bootstrap 3 to Bootstrap 5: all of a group's admin pages — Members, Pending Messages, Invitations, Settings, Membership Defaults, Billing, Paid Memberships, subgroup management, and the rest. This is plumbing, not a redesign; the pages should look and behave as before. BUGFIX: On the Pending Messages, Activity, Manage Chat Members and Subgroup Members pages, the search box could sit on top of the list, hiding it — a side effect of the restyling above. Reported on beta within hours; fixed the same evening. beta.groups.io BUGFIX: On phones, tables on the restyled admin pages — most painfully the Activity log — wrapped each row over many screen lines instead of keeping one line per entry with sideways scrolling, the way they had always displayed. The new framework kept the responsive-table class but dropped its phone behavior. One line per row, scrolling sideways, is restored on all the restyled pages. beta.groups.io INTERNAL: The browser error reporter could not deliver a report when the site's JavaScript bundle failed to download, because the reporter itself depended on that bundle — so real users with failed loads were invisible, while scraper bots (which inject their own jQuery) flooded the log with the follow-on errors. The reporter now uses a transport of its own, sends a single classified bundle-load-failure report naming the script that failed, suppresses the cascade of "not defined" errors that follow a failed bundle, and records whether the reporting browser had a session cookie, separating members from bots at a glance. August 28, 2026: BUGFIX: On a member's page in the admin area, the Moderator Permissions, Moderator Notifications and Owner Email sections — which should only appear when the person's role is moderator or owner — displayed for every member. This was display-only: no member gained any permission, and the page is only visible to moderators and owners in the first place. The sections once again appear only when the role calls for them. beta.groups.io BUGFIX: Dropdown selects across the restyled admin pages — group Settings, Membership Defaults, Direct Add, member pages, and others — were missing their down-triangle in every browser, and were sized wider than before. A restyling class that suppresses the native triangle (expecting a replacement image that only comes with the correct class for selects) had been applied to some pages but not most. All selects now show the triangle and return to sizing to their content, on every restyled page. beta.groups.io BUGFIX: In dark mode, member labels (and any other colored chip) displayed grey instead of their assigned color. Dark mode's grey treatment is meant for count badges only; it now leaves anything carrying a color alone, as it always did before the restyling. beta.groups.io CHANGE: On the group Aliases page, the entry form now sits above the list of aliases — matching the Banned Domains arrangement — so adding an alias no longer requires scrolling past a long list. The help text moved into the box itself as placeholder text, the list is sorted alphabetically instead of by the date added, and the add buttons on both the Aliases and Banned Domains pages get a little breathing room above them. beta.groups.io BUGFIX: In the Moderator Permissions list on a member's admin page, the "Invite Members" checkbox rendered indented differently from the rest of the list. It now lines up with its neighbors. beta.groups.io CHANGE: The sections on a member's admin page — User Details, Moderator Permissions, Member Notifications, Email Delivery, and the rest — are now collapsible, like the corresponding sections on the Subscription page, so sections you aren't using can be folded out of the way. They start expanded. Section headings on both pages also now use a single consistent color; previously the collapsible ones rendered slightly darker than the static ones. beta.groups.io BUGFIX: The check that blocks executable files inside archive attachments — which Gmail and most other providers reject outright, for every recipient — decided whether an attachment was an archive from its file name. An archive renamed to a different extension (a .zip sent as .zip.xxx, with a note telling recipients to rename it back) slipped past the check, so the message was accepted and distributed, and then rejected by every provider that looked inside — half the group never received it, with no indication to the sender that anything had gone wrong. Attachments are now recognized as archives by their content, whatever the file name, including archives nested inside other archives, and such messages are returned to the sender at posting time with the usual executable-attachment notice. INTERNAL: Related: an executable renamed to an innocuous extension — attached bare or placed inside an archive — still passes the name-based checks but is likewise rejected by providers that inspect content. Messages are now scanned for Windows, Linux and Mac executable content behind misleading names at posting time; detections are logged but not yet enforced while the detector's accuracy is confirmed against real traffic. BUGFIX: When a member accepted or declined a calendar invitation from a group hosted on its own domain — an Enterprise group, or a group with its own subdomain — the reply their calendar program sent back automatically (Outlook's "Accepted: ..." message, for example) was rejected by our mail server, so the member received a confusing "This group does not exist" bounce and their response was never recorded on the event's RSVP list. Those replies are now processed just as they are for groups at groups.io addresses: the response is recorded and no bounce is sent. The next #changelog will be published on September 4, 2026. Take care everyone. Mark

Groups.io Updates @groups.io · 28/08/2026

✉️ [beta] Unscheduled downtime this morning #outage beta.groups.io/g/main/topic/1209743…

Hello, The Groups.io website was generally unavailable this morning from about 5:39am to about 6:15am Pacific Time. During the outage, all Groups.io services were off-line. Our main Postgres database server froze up and had to be rebooted. The machine did not come up cleanly and Linode, our hosting provider, had to do emergency maintenance. The site has been back up since then. No data was lost. All email sent to groups during the outage was queued up and should have already been processed. Unfortunately, it appears that Linode is doing a migration of that server to a different host. That should mostly not affect us, but when the migration is complete, there will probably be a couple of minutes of elevated errors on the website (either slow web pages or errors). There is no way for me to tell when that will happen, but I guess it will happen in an hour or two. Please let me know if you have any questions. Thanks, Mark

Groups.io Updates @groups.io · 22/08/2026

✉️ [beta] Site updates #changelog beta.groups.io/g/main/topic/1208717…

Changes to the site this week: August 17, 2026: INTERNAL: Added additional protections against bot group signups. BUGFIX: Fixed a case where in rare circumstances, when a message is deleted, it should still show up on the group home page and in search results. beta.groups.io BUGFIX: Messages that had signature blocks that were very long (or had parts that looked like signature blocks that were very long) would not be included in search results. August 19, 2026: CHANGE: Groups on the free plan are now notified when people try to join but can't. If your group is at the 100-member limit, owners and moderators receive a weekly email when join attempts were turned away, with a link to the activity log showing who tried. Denied join attempts that arrive by email are now recorded in the activity log as well. August 20, 2026: INTERNAL: Spent most of the week dealing with a major, ongoing, bot scraper attack - adding additional defenses against it, adding additional monitoring, and optimizing systems. The next #changelog will be published on August 28, 2026. Take care everyone. Mark

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Groups.io Updates @groups.io · 08/08/2026

✉️ [beta] Site updates #changelog beta.groups.io/g/main/topic/1206534…

Changes to the site this week: August 3, 2026: NEW: New demo videos: subgroups, billing, moderation, invite members, account recovery, co-owners, and delivery settings. August 5, 2026: BUGFIX: The website now listens for light/dark mode change events and adjusts the page accordingly, instead of waiting for full page reloads. August 7, 2026: BUGFIX: The About page link was incorrect. CHANGE: Change the Automatic Dark Mode setting label to Follow Device Setting I'm on vacation next week. The next #changelog will be published on August 21, 2026. Take care everyone. Mark

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Groups.io Updates @groups.io · 01/08/2026

✉️ [beta] Site updates #changelog beta.groups.io/g/main/topic/1205455…

Changes to the site this week: July 18, 2026: API CHANGE: Improved the error returns on many API endpoints and fixed a few inconsistencies. July 27, 2026: INTERNAL: Changed the groups.io DMARC signature to p=quarantine;pct=10 July 29, 2026: CHANGE: Changed the first batch of web pages from Bootstrap 3 to Bootstrap 5. NEW: Added a web form for support request submissions. July 31, 2026: BUGFIX: Misc web page fixes. beta.groups.io CHANGE: Continued work on the new Ask feature. beta.groups.io API NEW: Added a complete set of webhook API endpoints. The next #changelog will be published on August 7, 2026. Take care everyone. Mark

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Groups.io Updates @groups.io · 18/07/2026

✉️ [beta] Site updates #changelog beta.groups.io/g/main/topic/1203277…

Groups.io Updates @groups.io · 11/07/2026

✉️ [beta] Site updates #changelog beta.groups.io/g/main/topic/1202174…

Changes to the site this week: July 6, 2026: INTERNAL: Improved our processes for ad-hoc blocking of ASNs responsible for abusive crawlers, as well as our monitoring systems for such attacks. July 7, 2026: ADMIN: Changed our SPF records from ~all to -all. July 8, 2026: NEW: Added an improved Enterprise group onboarding system. July 10, 2026: CHANGE: Much improved Ask feature: It now searches attachments, wikis, photos, files, events You can have more of a conversation with it, because it remembers what you've talked about earlier in the conversation Results are streamed as they are generated You can now easily copy an answer and also send an answer to your group Query counts are tracked and displayed on the Billing page as well as in Analytics NEW: Added new Billing Information fields to include information in invoices. The fields are accessible on the Billing page: Legal Name Billing Address Tax ID The next #changelog will be published on July 17, 2026. Take care everyone. Mark

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Groups.io Updates @groups.io · 24/06/2026

✉️ [beta] Site updates #changelog beta.groups.io/g/main/topic/1199529…

Changes to the site this week: June 23, 2026: BUGFIX: Include display name if we have it in pending member notifications. beta.groups.io API BUGFIX: The /updateevent and /updaterepeatevent API endpoints were more strict in their permissions enforcement than they should have been. Also fixed the error return on inadequate permissions. beta.groups.io CHANGE: Merged Spanish language translations from luiscarlos2000. I am on vacation through next week. The next #changelog will be published on July 10, 2026. Take care everyone. Mark

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Groups.io Updates @groups.io · 20/06/2026

✉️ [beta] Site updates #changelog beta.groups.io/g/main/topic/1198938…

Changes to the site this week: June 19, 2026: NEW: Add organizer attendee-management actions to the View RSVPs page. Lets event organizers remove attendees, change a member's guest count, and edit RSVP comments from the View RSVPs page. Brings along RSVP-removed and guests-changed notification emails, new activity-log entries, and guest-count invalid/over-capacity flash messages. Short week next week. The next #changelog will be published on June 23, 2026. Take care everyone. Mark

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Groups.io Updates @groups.io · 06/06/2026

✉️ [beta] Site updates #changelog beta.groups.io/g/main/topic/1196737…

Changes to the site this week: June 1, 2026: BUGFIX: Monthly guidelines didn't get sent out because of malformed database query. June 3, 2026: INTERNAL: Stripe webhook hardening June 4, 2026: INTERNAL: Upgraded the jQuery library. BUGFIX: SSO/SAML login validation (accessType + org mismatch checks) BUGFIX: Calendar ICS feed correctly reflecting rescheduled recurring events from changes received from Outlook emails I am on vacation next week. The next #changelog will be published on June 19, 2026. Take care everyone. Mark

Groups.io Updates @groups.io · 30/05/2026

✉️ [beta] Site updates #changelog beta.groups.io/g/main/topic/1195580…

Changes to the site this week: May 27, 2026: BUGFIX: Setting 'Disable Signup' to true for enterprise groups prevented invites from working via the website. May 29, 2026: BUGFIX: For some Enterprise SSO options, the SSO Domain text field was not showing up in the /enterprise settings page. BUGFIX: Went through all the delete confirmation dialogs, ensuring the verbiage and button text/color/icons were consistent. BUGFIX: Improved error handling for invalid and empty email aliases. beta.groups.io BUGFIX: Unbanning a domain didn't work. beta.groups.io The next #changelog will be published on June 5, 2026. Take care everyone. Mark

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Groups.io Updates @groups.io · 23/05/2026

✉️ [beta] Site updates #changelog beta.groups.io/g/main/topic/1194512…

Changes to the site this week: May 17, 2026: BUGFIX: Several small fixes to how we handle push notifications and the process of renewing/rotating them. BUGFIX: Pasting plain text containing blank lines into the message composition window stripped the blank lines, losing paragraph separation; pastes also broke out of surrounding inline formatting (bold, italic, font, color). beta.groups.io May 18, 2026: BUGFIX: Image upload to wiki pages was broken in the app. May 22, 2026: NEW: We now support ACH payments for group hosting fees. The next #changelog will be published on May 29, 2026. Take care everyone. Mark

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Groups.io Updates @groups.io · 16/05/2026

✉️ [beta] Site updates #changelog beta.groups.io/g/main/topic/1193411…

Changes to the site this week: May 13, 2026: BUGFIX: Accepting an invite to a subgroup would bypass approval to the main group if the main group was restricted. [beta.groups.io](https://beta.groups.io/g/main/topic/119285274 May 15, 2026: CHANGE: Tightened up the spacing of the recent topics display in the group home page. BUGFIX: Improved search of email addresses in activity logs. beta.groups.io The next #changelog will be published on May 22, 2026. Take care everyone. Mark

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Groups.io Updates @groups.io · 08/05/2026

✉️ [beta] Site updates #changelog beta.groups.io/g/main/topic/1192224…

Changes to the site this week: May 5, 2026: BUGFIX: The date pickers for the Custom Range in the Analytics page weren't working. BUGFIX: The editor was not shrinking after expanding and then having text deleted. BUGFIX: The /ask page on mobile had the bottom navbar obscuring the input field. May 6, 2026: BUGFIX: Fixed a couple of issues that could cause drafts to not be saved properly on iOS when there are multiple images. beta.groups.io May 8, 2026: BUGFIX: Cancelling a Photo upload in progress and then trying to navigate elsewhere caused a navigation bug. beta.groups.io BUGFIX: Uploading more than 5 files at once would cause extra upload notifications. beta.groups.io NEW: You can now delete pending subscriptions, similar to how you can delete pending messages. beta.groups.io The next #changelog will be published on May 15, 2026. Take care everyone. Mark

Groups.io Updates @groups.io · 02/05/2026

✉️ [beta] Site updates #changelog beta.groups.io/g/main/topic/1191109…

Changes to the site this week: April 27, 2026: BUGFIX: Back button on mobile returns to the correct page between /topics and /messages. beta.groups.io April 29, 2026: BUGFIX: The Groups icon in the bottom mobile navbar was not functional. May 1, 2026: BUGFIX: Return to the current photo after editing it. beta.groups.io BUGFIX: Return to the files search results page after moving a file. beta.groups.io BUGFIX: When muting a topic, we weren't deleting any pending digest messages. beta.groups.io The next #changelog will be published on May 7, 2026. Take care everyone. Mark

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Groups.io Updates @groups.io · 25/04/2026

✉️ [beta] Site updates #changelog beta.groups.io/g/main/topic/1189987…

Changes to the site this week: April 20, 2026: BUGFIX: Fixed timeout issue with /ask taking too long April 24, 2026: CHANGE: Merged French translation updates CHANGE: Mobile/app improvements: Back button nav on most pages Removed breadcrumbs and moved the page title, group name, and search icon into the navbar Improved group home page Smoother transitions between pages Native date and time pickers Improved /groups page Improved /feed page Improved /topics page Improved /calendar page Hide the navbar on scroll on some pages /groups button on the bottom navbar for easy navigation Better display of image attachments in messages CHANGE: Chat improvements: better handling of video, thumbnail shows up immediately grouping of messages by same person typing indicator emoji picker swipe to reply added haptics on the app (vibrations) file attachments improved user name picker, displays avatars and names, does substring matching, displays the username as a pill in messages CHANGE: General UI improvements: Form restyling Panel heading restyling The next #changelog will be published on May 1, 2026. Take care everyone. Mark

Groups.io Updates @groups.io · 18/04/2026

✉️ [beta] Site updates #changelog beta.groups.io/g/main/topic/1188871…

Changes to the site this week: April 14, 2026: BUGFIX: Fixed handling MHT attachments in the web post editor. April 15, 2026: BUGFIX: Cancelling single event instances of a repeating event via email sometimes did not correctly update the database, leading to the cancelled event not being represented in the ICS file. The next #changelog will be published on April 24, 2026. Take care everyone. Mark

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Groups.io Updates @groups.io · 04/04/2026

✉️ [beta] Site updates #changelog beta.groups.io/g/main/topic/1186597…

Changes to the site this week: March 30, 2026: BUGFIX: If a message hashtag had multiple # characters, we did not properly parse it. March 31, 2026: BUGFIX: In the top level /topics page, thumbnails from groups that had subgroups were broken. BUGFIX: When viewing a single page Help Center manual, sometimes clicking on a link would scroll slightly past the subject. beta.groups.io BUGFIX: In the wiki, links in the table of contents could scroll slightly past the header. beta.groups.io April 2, 2026: BUGFIX: If someone accepted an invitation to a subgroup, and that caused them to be added to the parent group as well, an activity log entry was not added for the parent group. API: Added new /getmessage endpoint. April 3, 2026: BUGFIX: In the group billing page, make it more clear which invoices were paid fully by sponsorship reserves. I will be on vacation next week. Responses to support requests will be delayed during that time. The next #changelog will be published on April 17, 2026. Take care everyone. Mark

Groups.io Updates @groups.io · 28/03/2026

✉️ [beta] Site updates #changelog beta.groups.io/g/main/topic/1185468…

Changes to the site this week: March 27, 2026: BUGFIX: Fixing more instances of double slashes in Files section activity log entries and notifications. beta.groups.io BUGFIX: If a past member rejoins/reapplies to a group, copy any existing moderator notes to the new subscription. beta.groups.io BUGFIX: Escape periods in activity log searches, so they aren't interpreted as field separators. beta.groups.io BUGFIX: Fix group hashtags duration display. beta.groups.io The next #changelog will be published on April 3, 2026. Take care everyone. Mark

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Groups.io Updates @groups.io · 21/03/2026

✉️ [beta] Site updates #changelog beta.groups.io/g/main/topic/1184295…

Changes to the site this week: March 17, 2026: CHANGE: The /topics page now displays thumbnail images similar to the group topics page. CHANGE: The default page when first going to groups.io is now the /topics page, not the /feed page. CHANGE: The mobile version of the /topics page now shows your groups as a horizontal scroll at the top, similar to the /feed page CHANGE: Various formatting tweaks to the /topcs and /feed pages. March 19, 2026: BUGFIX: Fix a double encoding issue when trying to view some Files that contained spaces. March 20, 2026: BUGFIX: When moving a file from the top level in the Files section, the Activity log entry would have a double slash //. This bug fix only applies to new activity log entries. beta.groups.io The next #changelog will be published on March 27, 2026. Take care everyone. Mark

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Groups.io Updates @groups.io · 14/03/2026

✉️ [beta] Site updates #changelog beta.groups.io/g/main/topic/1183095…

Changes to the site this week: March 12, 2026: NEW: Added a calendar date picker to make it easy to jump to a specific day. NEW: Added event search to the group and user calendar pages to search for events. March 13, 2026: BUGFIX: Cancelled instances of repeating events will now show as grey in the calendar. BUGFIX: When viewing a cancelled instance, the Edit button is now removed, and it more prominently says 'This event has been cancelled'. BUGFIX: Cancelled instances were not being represented as cancelled in the ICS feeds. That's been fixed as well. The next #changelog will be published on March 20, 2026. Take care everyone. Mark

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Groups.io Updates @groups.io · 07/03/2026

✉️ [beta] Site updates #changelog beta.groups.io/g/main/topic/1181841…

Changes to the site this week: March 3, 2026: NEW: Add GrowthZone SSO support. March 6, 2026: CHANGE: When banning a domain, display a success banner. Moved the Ban Domain input field to the top of the page. beta.groups.io BUGFIX: When banning a member, keep any existing member notes. Also, in the Members page with the ban filter, show the notes icon for any banned members with notes. beta.groups.io API BUGFIX: Updating extra_member_data_columns in the /updategroup endpoint didn't work. API NEW: Added new endpoint updateextramembercolumndef which modifies the properties of a single column (name, choices, description, etc.) without sending the full columns array. API NEW: Added new endpoint updateextramembercolumn which updates a single member's extra member data value for one column. CHANGE: Merged Dutch language changes. The next #changelog will be published on March 12, 2026. Take care everyone. Mark

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Groups.io Updates @groups.io · 21/02/2026

✉️ [beta] Site updates #changelog beta.groups.io/g/main/topic/1179225…

Changes to the site this week: February 17, 2026: CHANGE: Calendar ICS files now only include events more recent than one year ago. Previously, all events in the calendar were included. February 18, 2026: BUGFIX: In the Activity Log, display the subject line of messages sent to +owner addresses from banned domains. beta.groups.io The next #changelog will be published on February 27, 2026. Take care everyone. Mark

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Groups.io Updates @groups.io · 14/02/2026

✉️ [beta] Site updates #changelog beta.groups.io/g/main/topic/1178050…

Changes to the site this week: February 10, 2026: BUGFIX: For repeating calendar entries with a fixed number of instances, if the starting date/time was changed, there was a possibility that not all of the individual instances of that event would be shown on the website. NEW: Preliminary support for using Memberclicks for SSO authentication. February 13, 2026: CHANGE: Updated the Change Email help video to reflect the new change email process. NEW: Added preliminary versions of help videos for the Calendar, Photos, Files, Database, and Wiki sections. The next #changelog will be published on February 20, 2026. Take care everyone. Mark

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Groups.io Updates @groups.io · 07/02/2026

✉️ [beta] Site updates #changelog beta.groups.io/g/main/topic/1176848…

Changes to the site this week: February 2, 2026: CHANGE: The Analytics page is now accessible to all moderators, not just moderators that have the billing permission. February 3, 2026: CHANGE: The Analytics page now allows arbitrary date range selection, instead of just the last 30 days. BUGFIX: The Top Hashtags display in the Analytics page would miss some hashtags. This fix is forward-looking. New messages will have their hashtags tracked correctly. February 4, 2026: BUGFIX: We now prevent the case where, if you have two windows open editing the same draft, one window could overwrite the other's changes. February 5, 2026: CHANGE: Changed the change email address flow, so that you can still log in using your old email address until the new email address has been confirmed. beta.groups.io The next #changelog will be published on February 13, 2026. Take care everyone. Mark

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Groups.io Updates @groups.io · 06/02/2026

✉️ [beta] Change in change email address flow #releasenotes beta.groups.io/g/main/topic/1176645…

Hi All, I've just revamped the flow for changing your email address. Hopefully it addresses the concerns expressed recently and makes things more understandable and forgiving. Here's how it now works. Changing Your Email Address When you change your email address on Groups.io, the change doesn't happen immediately. Instead, we use a confirmation process to verify that you own the new email address and to protect your account from unauthorized changes. How It Works Step 1: Request the Change From your Account Settings page, enter your new email address and submit the form. This creates a pending email change request. Step 2: Check Both Inboxes Two emails are sent: To your NEW email address: A confirmation email with a link you must click to verify you own this address To your OLD email address: A notification letting you know that an email change was requested (for security awareness) Step 3: Confirm the Change Click the confirmation link in the email sent to your new address. This verifies that you have access to the new email and completes the change. Once confirmed: Your account email is updated to the new address All your group subscriptions are updated automatically You'll use the new email to log in going forward Important Details Your Old Login Still Works: You still login with your old email address until you confirm your new email address. Expiration: Pending email change requests expire after 7 days. If you don't confirm within this time, you'll need to submit a new request. One at a Time: You can only have one pending email change at a time. Starting a new request cancels any previous pending request. Cancel Anytime: You can cancel a pending request from your Account Settings page before it's confirmed. Resend Confirmation: If you didn't receive the confirmation email, you can resend it from your Account Settings page (as long as the request hasn't expired). Case Changes: You can change just the capitalization of your email address (for example, from "john.doe@example.com" to "John.Doe@example.com") using this same process. Security Features The confirmation link contains a secure, randomly-generated code that cannot be guessed Your old email address is notified of any change request, so you'll know if someone else tries to change your email After confirming an email change, data exports are temporarily blocked for 24 hours as an additional security measure If the confirmation email bounces (is undeliverable), the pending change remains but cannot be completed until a valid email is provided If You Don't Receive the Confirmation Email Check your spam/junk folder Make sure you entered the correct email address Try the "Resend" button on your Account Settings page If problems persist, contact support Please let me know if you have any questions. Thanks, Mark

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Groups.io Updates @groups.io · 31/01/2026

✉️ [beta] Site updates #changelog beta.groups.io/g/main/topic/1175575…

Changes to the site this week: January 30, 2026: CHANGE: Updated the list of attachment extensions that we do not allow in emails, based on the list of attachment extensions that Gmail doesn't accept. The complete list is: .ade, .adp, .apk, .appx, .appxbundle, .bat, .cab, .chm, .cmd, .com, .cpl, .diagcab, .diagcfg, .diagpkg, .dll, .dmg, .ex, .ex_, .exe, .hta, .img, .ins, .iso, .isp, .jar, .jnlp, .js, .jse, .lib, .lnk, .mde, .mjs, .msc, .msi, .msix, .msixbundle, .msp, .mst, .nsh, .pif, .ps1, .scr, .sct, .shb, .sys, .vb, .vbe, .vbs, .vhd, .vxd, .wsc, .wsf, .wsh, .xll. These are also checked inside compressed archives (.zip, .tar, .tgz, .taz, .z, .gz, .rar). NEW: Photo albums can now have sub-albums. BUGFIX: Deleted events still were represented in ICS feed files, but with STATUS:CANCELLED. This did not cause them to be removed from subscribing calendars. Now we don't include deleted events in ICS feeds. The next #changelog will be published on February 6, 2026. Take care everyone. Mark

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Groups.io Updates @groups.io · 24/01/2026

✉️ [beta] Site updates #changelog beta.groups.io/g/main/topic/1174319…

Changes to the site this week: January 23, 2026: BUGFIX: In some instances, it appeared that a user was able to edit a locked event. When they tried to do so, the system prevented it, but it was still confusing. The next #changelog will be published on January 30, 2026. Take care everyone. Mark

Groups.io Updates @groups.io · 17/01/2026

✉️ [beta] Site updates #changelog beta.groups.io/g/main/topic/1173103…

Changes to the site this week: January 15, 2026: CHANGE: On the group promote page, removed Twitter and Facebook and added Bluesky and LinkedIn. CHANGE: Added wiki search to the /Ask feature. BUGFIX: Downloading past members isn't currently supported, so I've removed the Download button when viewing past members. beta.groups.io BUGFIX: Ensure the Unfollow button is displayed after replying to a message, when your subscription is to Follow Only + Auto Follow Replies. beta.groups.io The next #changelog will be published on January 23, 2026. Take care everyone. Mark

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Groups.io Updates @groups.io · 10/01/2026

✉️ [beta] Site updates #changelog beta.groups.io/g/main/topic/1171874…

Changes to the site this week: January 5, 2026: BUGFIX: In some instances of groups with lots of files or photos, the export group function would time out. January 8, 2026: CHANGE: Remove photo album description from admin email notifications. beta.groups.io CHANGE: Changed Manage Chats button to Manage Chat Members. beta.groups.io CHANGE: Changed digest and summary From lines from the group email address to instead be the group name plus "Digest" or "Summary". beta.groups.io January 9, 2026: NEW: Added 'Send as Special Notice' checkbox when composing replies, for mods/owners. BUGFIX: When adding/removing a member data image or database image, we would sometimes mix up which bucket to track the space used by it. beta.groups.io The next #changelog will be published on January 16, 2026. Take care everyone. Mark

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Groups.io Updates @groups.io · 20/12/2025

✉️ [beta] Site updates #changelog beta.groups.io/g/main/topic/1168712…

Changes to the site this week: December 16, 2025: BUGFIX: In a repeating event in the calendar, if a single event had been deleted and then the repeating event was updated, the original single event was sometimes recreated. December 19, 2025: NEW: Groups now have a Two-Factor Authentication Policy setting to enforce the use of two-factor authentication by moderators and/or members. I will be on vacation the next couple of weeks. Support responses will be delayed during that time. The next #changelog will be published on January 8, 2025. I hope you have a good holiday season. Thank you for using Groups.io. Mark

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Groups.io Updates @groups.io · 19/12/2025

✉️ [beta] New group setting: Two-Factor Authentication Policy #releasenotes beta.groups.io/g/main/topic/1168638…

Hi All, I've added a new group setting: Two-Factor Authentication Policy. It's described as "Choose who in this group is required to have two-factor authentication enabled" and has the following options: No requirement Required for moderators and owners Required for all members This setting is only available on standalone and parent groups; subgroups inherit the setting from their parent. The default is "No requirement." Owners must have 2FA enabled before they can change this setting. Additionally, users cannot disable their own 2FA if they belong to a group that requires it. This policy is only enforced on the website. If a user belongs to a group that requires 2FA, they will be redirected to a page explaining this, with the option to either set up 2FA or unsubscribe from the group. Please let me know if you have any questions. Thanks, Mark

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Groups.io Updates @groups.io · 13/12/2025

✉️ [beta] Site updates #changelog beta.groups.io/g/main/topic/1167586…

Changes to the site this week: December 10, 2025: NEW: Premium groups can now add additional storage in 50GB chunks, for $5/month or $55/year. December 12, 2025: CHANGE: Updated the formatting and display of the group storage elements. beta.groups.io BUGFIX: In some instances, cancelling a single instance of a repeating event in the calendar generated a CANCEL ICS file that Outlook would use to remove all instances of the event. CHANGE: Updated the translations. The next #changelog will be published on December 19, 2025. Take care everyone. Mark

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Groups.io Updates @groups.io · 12/12/2025

✉️ [beta] Additional storage available #releasenotes beta.groups.io/g/main/topic/1167499…

Hi All, Premium groups can now purchase additional storage. You may add 50 GB blocks for $5/month or $55/year. To do so, go to Admin → Preferences → Billing. As a reminder, photos, files, and images all count toward your group’s storage quota. Premium groups can view their current usage under Admin → Preferences → Billing. Free groups can view it under Admin → Preferences → Upgrade. Please let me know if you have any questions. Thanks, Mark

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Groups.io Updates @groups.io · 06/12/2025

✉️ [beta] Site updates #changelog beta.groups.io/g/main/topic/1166418…

Changes to the site this week: December 1, 2025: CHANGE: Drafts are now automatically deleted after 90 days of inactivity, instead of the previous 14 days. December 5, 2025: DOCS: Updates from Nina. Revision History CHANGE: Added a Show Password button to the New Password field on the user settings page. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/40029 CHANGE: Changed location to Original Location in the group member page. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/40009 The next #changelog will be published on December 12, 2025. Take care everyone. Mark

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Groups.io Updates @groups.io · 29/11/2025

✉️ [beta] Site updates #changelog beta.groups.io/g/main/topic/1165231…

Changes to the site this week: November 25, 2025: BUGFIX: In the Files section, if a file was moved from the search results page, the path would be missing in email notifications and activity log entries. BUGFIX: When an account is banned from the system, all pending messages associated with that account should also be removed. CHANGE: In the Sessions page, include the date/time the session started. Also, for Firefox users, we cannot tell if they are on Windows 10 or 11, so display "Windows 10/11" instead. CHANGE: In the User Settings sidebar, include a link to the Sessions page. The next #changelog will be published on December 5, 2025. Take care everyone. Mark

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Groups.io Updates @groups.io · 22/11/2025

✉️ [beta] Site updates #changelog beta.groups.io/g/main/topic/1164195…

I spent most of the week working on internal upgrades. Changes to the site this week: November 17, 2025: CHANGE: With posts received via email, we now convert all HEIC images to JPEG. There is still not good support for viewing HEIC images in browsers other than Safari. BUGFIX: In the Files section, the Update File dialog allowed multiple files to be uploaded. The next #changelog will be published on November 28, 2025. Take care everyone. Mark

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Groups.io Updates @groups.io · 15/11/2025

✉️ [beta] Site updates #changelog beta.groups.io/g/main/topic/1163034…

I continue to spend most of my time working on internal upgrades. Changes to the site this week: November 11, 2025: CHANGE: When posting from the website, we now convert all HEIC images to JPEG. There is still not good support for viewing HEIC images in browsers other than Safari. The next #changelog will be published on November 21, 2025. Take care everyone. Mark

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Groups.io Updates @groups.io · 14/11/2025

✉️ [beta] Unscheduled downtime #outage beta.groups.io/g/main/topic/1163008…

Hello, The Groups.io website was generally unavailable this morning from about 6:15am to about 7:21am Pacific Time. During the outage, all Groups.io services were off-line. Our main Redis database ran out of memory. This was caused by an inadvertent configuration issue related to moving the Groups.io backend services to new machines over the past few weeks. It took me longer than it should have to figure out the problem. And then there was an initial error upgrading the Redis instance to a larger machine, which also contributed to the length of the outage. Every outage is an opportunity to learn. I've already implemented additional dashboards and checks that will make it easier to diagnose this particular failure in the future. No data was lost. All email sent to groups during the outage was queued up and should have already been processed. Thanks, Mark

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Groups.io Updates @groups.io · 08/11/2025

✉️ [beta] Site updates #changelog beta.groups.io/g/main/topic/1161835…

Changes to the site this week: November 4, 2025: BUGFIX: In /posttosub, uploading attachments was broken. BUGFIX: In some cases, when viewing a photo album, the Upload Photos button was displayed correctly, but you were not able to actually upload photos. beta.groups.io/probe?r=https%3A%2F%2Fbeta.groups.io%2Fg%2Fmain%2Fmessage%2F39859 CHANGE: When replying to a message on the website, include more references to previous messages in the References header. beta.groups.io/probe?r=https%3A%2F%2Fbeta.groups.io%2Fg%2Fmain%2Fmessage%2F39929 The next #changelog will be published on November 14, 2025. Take care everyone. Mark

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Groups.io Updates @groups.io · 01/11/2025

✉️ [beta] Site updates #changelog beta.groups.io/g/main/topic/1160601…

I spend most of the week working on internal upgrades. Changes to the site this week: October 25, 2025: CHANGE: As a security measure, do not allow group or user data exports for 24 hours after you change and confirm your email address. The next #changelog will be published on November 7, 2025. Take care everyone. Mark

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Groups.io Updates @groups.io · 25/10/2025

✉️ [beta] Site updates #changelog beta.groups.io/g/main/topic/1159398…

Changes to the site this week: October 20, 2025: NEW: Passkeys now appear as suggestions in the email field of the login page; there's no more need for a separate Sign in with Passkey button. CHANGE: We now provide a flow to create a new passkey when using a passkey from another device. CHANGE: We now support recovery codes with passkey enabled accounts. BUGFIX: In the new Sessions, fix identification of Microsoft Edge browsers as well as Windows 11 (only for new sessions). CHANGE: Prevent signups from 3 additional temporary email services. October 21, 2025: BUGFIX: When viewing invitations, we were showing when an invite was last updated but we were sorting on when the invite was created. October 22, 2025: CHANGE: Chat DMs are no longer rate limited. October 23, 2025: NEW: Chat now supports audio on the web. The app requires an update to support recording audio, which will be released later. NEW: In chat, if you are an owner, moderator or the creator of the chat, you can remove someone from the chat. CHANGE: On narrow screens, the navigation breadcrumb is back on the chat page. CHANGE: In chat when you type @ to bring up the username selector, as you type it now narrows the selection. BUGFIX: Emojis in chat notification messages weren't displayed correctly. NEW: In the Members page, the Action drop up now has an option to Change Member Notifications October 24, 2025: NEW: On the Chats page, for moderators and owners, there's a new Manage Chats button that brings up a page that lets you add and remove people from chats. The next #changelog will be published on October 31, 2025. Take care everyone. Mark

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Groups.io Updates @groups.io · 18/10/2025

✉️ [beta] Site updates #changelog beta.groups.io/g/main/topic/1158190…

Changes to the site this week: October 17, 2025: DOCS: Updates from Nina. Revision History NEW: Logged in session tracking system, mostly internal at this point, but can be viewed at https://groups.io/settings/sessions The next #changelog will be published on October 24, 2025. Take care everyone. Mark

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Groups.io Updates @groups.io · 11/10/2025

✉️ [beta] Site updates #changelog beta.groups.io/g/main/topic/1157006…

Changes to the site this week: October 6, 2025: CHANGE: The WYSIWYG editor now uses the Dropzone widget for uploads, as is consistent with the Files section. NEW: Inline images in messages in the archives can now be clicked on to bring up a lightbox to view/download the images. October 8, 2025: INTERNAL: Rolled out new internal anti-spam tracking systems. October 10, 2025: CHANGE: Changed all instances of 'wish' to 'want' in the UI. BUGFIX: When a group was set to Plain Text Only and to moderate attachments, the attachment icon did not display in the editor. DOCS: Updates from Nina. Revision History The next #changelog will be published on October 17, 2025. Take care everyone. Mark

Groups.io Updates @groups.io · 04/10/2025

✉️ [beta] Site updates #changelog beta.groups.io/g/main/topic/1155818…

Changes to the site this week: October 1, 2025: CHANGE: Now when attempting to subscribe to a subgroup and you are not already subscribed to the main group, it handles it correctly. If the main group is restricted, you will be subscribed to the subgroup after your main group subscription has been approved. When viewing pending members in the parent group that also have pending subscriptions in one or more subgroups, those will be listed as well. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/39749 BUGFIX: We keep the HTML img tag width and height attributes if they are smaller than the original image. Previously we were setting them to the dimensions of the image. October 3, 2025: DOCS: Updates from Nina. Revision History NEW: Added support for Passkeys, which can be configured by going to Setting The next #changelog will be published on October 10, 2025. Take care everyone. Mark

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