Updates to the Groups.io service.
January 14, 2024
- ADMIN: Began reverification process for a subset of users to address the issue of email being sent to SpamHaus spam traps.
January 9, 2024
- BUGFIX: Better handle 'EXTERNAL:' subject prefixes. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/36940
- CHANGE: For moderator notifications when a mod in another group changes a member's email address or display name, we used to show the moderator's name and email. Instead, we now say 'A moderator in another group'. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/36944
- BUGFIX: In certain instances, after adding multiple images to a post and then deleting one of the images, it could cause some of the other images to not display correctly. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/36948
- BUGFIX: In the '/pendingmsgs' page, the pending message badge was not refreshing immediately after approving/rejecting pending messages. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/36965
January 8, 2024
- BUGFIX: We weren't disabling the 'Add Sidebar' button properly in the wiki. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/36968
- BUGFIX: The algorithm for generating a Topic summary when editing an existing message was not the same as the algorithm for generating a Topic summary of a new Topic, and generated worse summaries when dealing with some types of messages. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/36954
- BUGFIX: Trim spaces from the beginning and end when updating/setting passwords. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/36950
January 2, 2024
- BUGFIX: When replying to sender and BCCing ourselves, we were not re-writing the From line of the BCCed message when we needed to in order to avoid Gmail spoof warnings.
December 22, 2023
- BUGFIX: If there was more than one image specified in the Extra Member Data, uploading those images was broken. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/36908
- INTERNAL: Additional work to block spammers.
December 21, 2023
- BUGFIX: Remove unreferenced inline images from posts/replies. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/topic/102722294#msg36888
December 18, 2023
- CHANGE: Activity log and mod notification changes for spam reports. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/36851
December 15, 2023
- CHANGE: Changed the group sponsorship process to be two steps instead of one, to make it more clear that an amount needs to be entered before selecting credit card/Paypal.
December 11, 2023
- BUGFIX: An HTML paragraph extra member data field would not be editable in some circumstances. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/topic/103064119#msg36767
December 5, 2023
- CHANGE: Wiki exports now are in JSON format and include all information about wiki page edits. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/36725
- FIX: Typo fix on the Donations page, along with including a blurb about using Sponsorships to fund group fees. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/36727
December 1, 2023
- NEW: Added a new step in the create group flow where you can specify a list of people to invite when the group is approved.
- SYSADMIN: Upgraded the instance running Redis because we were running out of memory.
November 28, 2023
- BUGFIX: When updating a File from the Files search result page, the activity log entry as well as the notification did not include the fully qualified path for the File, and the link was broken. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/topic/wrong_misleading_filespec/102330852?p=,,,50,0,0,0::recentpostdate/sticky,,,50,2,0,102330852,previd%3D9223372036854775807,nextid%3D1699455432091838005&previd=9223372036854775807&nextid=1699455432091838005
November 27, 2023
- CHANGE: Our email parsing code was rejecting some messages that had improperly quoted Content-Type MIME header lines. It was correct that it's an error, but we want to accept those messages anyways. I've changed the code so that now handles this particular case and doesn't reject those messages.
November 21, 2023
- BUGFIX: Users were unable to update the number of guests they were bringing to events. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/topic/102500452#36613
- BUGFIX: Link colors on the Photos search result page were difficult to read. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/topic/102710230#36620
November 16, 2023
- SYSADMIN: Started the warm up process for a new email server.
November 14, 2023
- NEW: Added MiniOrange/WordPress SSO support for enterprise groups
November 13, 2023
- NEW: In the `/chats` page, we now display member counts for each chat, and you can click on those to show the members.
November 8, 2023
- CHANGE: Updated spam unsubscription notification. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/36399
November 1, 2023
- CHANGE: Launched the new activity log blurbs, as discussed on beta@ over the past two months.
October 18, 2023
- BUGFIX: Some RSVP change notification emails were being sent with an incorrect envelope from, which caused Gmail to reject them.