Changes to the site this week:

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.

January 8, 2024:

• BUGFIX: We weren't disabling the 'Add Sidebar' button properly in the wiki. Footer and Sidebar button status tweaking
• 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. Edited Upcoming Events message issues
• BUGFIX: Trim spaces from the beginning and end when updating/setting passwords. We should also trim space chars in /account New Password field

January 9, 2024:

• BUGFIX: Better handle 'EXTERNAL:' subject prefixes. Still getting group replies with Subject of ": Re: [Groupname] old subject"
• 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'. Privacy violation in account change notification when mod in another group changes member's email address
• 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. "Add Pictures" not working as expected
• BUGFIX: In the '/pendingmsgs' page, the pending message badge was not refreshing immediately after approving/rejecting pending messages. Pending Message Counter

The next #changelog will be published on January 19, 2024.

Take care everyone.

Mark

Changes to the site this week:

December 18, 2023:

• CHANGE: Activity log and mod notification changes for spam reports. "Reported a message as spam" in Activity log

December 21, 2023:

• BUGFIX: Remove unreferenced inline images from posts/replies. main@beta.groups.io | Photos embedded and then removed from messages before being sent, are not removed

December 22, 2023:

• BUGFIX: If there was more than one image specified in the Extra Member Data, uploading those images was broken. Extra Member Data picture field does not work if it is the last one in the list of fields
• INTERNAL: Additional work to block spammers.

I am on vacation the next two weeks. Email to support will be monitored but response times will be longer than normal. The next #changelog will be published on January 12th, 2024.

Take care everyone. I hope you have a great end of the year.

Mark

Changes to the site this week:

December 11, 2023:

• BUGFIX: An HTML paragraph extra member data field would not be editable in some circumstances. main@beta.groups.io | HTML paragraph field in "Extra Member Data" is not editable by the moderator

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.

The next #changelog will be published on December 22, 2023.

Take care everyone.

Mark

Changes to the site this week:

December 5, 2023:

• CHANGE: Wiki exports now are in JSON format and include all information about wiki page edits. Re: Add User_ID in the hashtags JSON export
• FIX: Typo fix on the Donations page, along with including a blurb about using Sponsorships to fund group fees. Donations page typo, and add Sponsorship blurb suggestion

The next #changelog will be published on December 15, 2023.

Take care everyone.

Mark

Changes to the site this week:

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 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. main@beta.groups.io | Wrong (misleading) filespec in "moved file" moderator notices

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.

The next #changelog will be published on December 8, 2023.

Take care everyone.

Mark

Changes to the site this week:

November 21, 2023:

• BUGFIX: Users were unable to update the number of guests they were bringing to events. main@beta.groups.io | RSVP Guests not working
• BUGFIX: Link colors on the Photos search result page were difficult to read. main@beta.groups.io | Nearly invisible album names in Photos after a search

The next #changelog will be published on December 1, 2023.

Take care everyone.

Mark

Changes to the site this week:

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 14, 2023:

• NEW: Added MiniOrange/WordPress SSO support for enterprise groups

November 16, 2023:

• SYSADMIN: Started the warm up process for a new email server.

The next #changelog will be published on November 22, 2023.

Take care everyone.

Mark

Changes to the site this week:

November 8, 2023:

• CHANGE: Updated spam unsubscription notification. Suggest cleaner Spam Notices

The next #changelog will be published on November 17, 2023.

Take care everyone.

Mark

Changes to the site this week:

November 1, 2023:

• CHANGE: Launched the new activity log blurbs, as discussed on beta@ over the past two months.

The next #changelog will be published on November 10, 2023.

Take care everyone.

Mark

Changes to the site this week:

There were no changes to the site this week.

The next #changelog will be published on November 3, 2023.

Take care everyone.

Mark

Changes to the site this week:

October 18, 2023:

• BUGFIX: Some RSVP change notification emails were being sent with an incorrect envelope from, which caused Gmail to reject them.

The next #changelog will be published on October 27, 2023.

Take care everyone.

Mark

Changes to the site this week:

October 11, 2023:

• NEW: We include more information derived from a member's IP address in the /member page as well as in pending subscription notifications. main@beta.groups.io | Store applicant web-access info in the member activity

The next #changelog will be published on October 20, 2023.

Take care everyone.

Mark

Changes to the site this week:

October 3, 2023:

• BUGFIX: In some instances, it was not possible to print more than the first page of the website due to a CSS issue.

October 4, 2023:

• BUGFIX: With SSO set up on an Enterprise group, there was a case where a member is validated by the SSO service but could not join the group.

October 6, 2023:

• CHANGE: Indicate that an event is canceled in the Upcoming Events emails. Cancelled RSVP events
• CHANGE: Added a checkbox to send the Removed Member notice on the bulk remove page. Send message on bulk remove

The next #changelog will be published on October 13, 2023.

Take care everyone.

Mark

Changes to the site this week:

September 25, 2023:

• NEW UI: Buttons are larger, dark mode border tweaks.

September 27, 2023:

• CHANGE: For now, removed the misleading search box when viewing the Emailed Photos album. main@beta.groups.io | Emailed Photos

The next #changelog will be published on October 5, 2023.

Take care everyone.

Mark

Change to the site this week:

September 18, 2023:

• BUGFIX: For some post to sub messages we were not doing required DMARC From munging correctly.

The next #changelog will be published on September 29, 2023.

Take care everyone.

Mark

Changes to the site this week:

September 11, 2023:

• BUGFIX: Trim spaces from msg number searches. main@beta.groups.io | Searching for messages by message #

September 12, 2023:

• CHANGE: We now store information on the 20 most recent successful and attempted deliveries for each member.

September 13, 2023:

• BUGFIX: Times in chat messages could be displayed using the wrong timezone.
• SYSADMIN: Upgraded the redis instance to deal with saving more delivery reports.

The next #changelog will be published on September 22, 2023.

Take care everyone.

Mark

Changes to the site this week:

September 4, 2023:

• CHANGE: In the app, added a back arrow when navigating the Files section.

September 6, 2023:

• CHANGE: Chat messages can now include multiple photos, and you can mix text and photos in a single message now.
• CHANGE: Improved image viewer for chat and you can now download images.
• BUGFIX: Exporting a table to CSV did not properly export any Number columns.

September 8, 2023:

• CHANGE: When sending photos in chat now, we display the chat message immediately without waiting for the photo data to be uploaded to the server.
• BUGFIX: Downloading events didn't work on the app.
• BUGFIX: It sometimes happened that an incorrect sorting parameter was used when viewing Emailed Photos, leading to a blank page. main@beta.groups.io | Unable to access Emailed Photos

The next #changelog will be published on September 15, 2023.

Take care everyone.

Mark

Changes to the site this week:

August 27, 2023:

• BUGFIX: Fix scrolling issue on mobile.
• BUGFIX: Fix instances where scrolling up on mobile or the app would result in duplicates .app@beta.groups.io | Group names duplicated in Groups list

August 28, 2023:

• BUGFIX: Numerous chat page fixes.

August 29, 2023:

• BUGFIX: Chat profile images now reference a Groups.io hosted URL instead of a time-based S3 URL. That was a problem when you had to scroll to new messages after the URLs had timed-out.
• BUGFIX: The @ mention dialog was being covered by the keyboard on mobile devices.
• NEW: Chat messages now show link previews.

August 30, 2023:

• CHANGE: Several appearance tweaks to the chat page.

September 1, 2023:

• BUGFIX: In the Default Sub Page, for Extra Member Data, we were not saving changes to the exclude fields for Address columns.
• CHANGE: Updated the language translation files.

The next #changelog will be published on September 8, 2023.

Take care everyone.

Mark

Changes to the site this week:

August 22, 2023:

• CHANGE: Revamped the create group page, splitting it into 3 pages, and adding/clarifying group options. Group creation

August 23, 2023:

• INTERNAL: Made improvements to the spammer detection system.

August 24, 2023:

• CHANGE: Improved mobile navigation tabs.
• BUGFIX: Fixed the scrollbar on mobile in cases where it extended into the bottom navbar.
• INTERNAL: Changed the CSS structure for chat to prepare for other internal mobile structural changes.
• SUPPORT: Added additional macros to make support easier.

August 25, 2023:

• BUGFIX: Fixed the missing scrollbar in the editor that was caused by yesterday's CSS changes to fix the mobile scrollbar. main@beta.groups.io | Window width programs
• CHANGE: Added a header to the pending email notification email to hopefully prevent multiple notifications from being grouped together in Gmail.
• INTERNAL: Upgraded HTMX library to 1.9.4.
• CHANGE: When editing an existing message, clicking on an attachment no longer brings it up. This is to address a Firefox bug. main@beta.groups.io | Deleting attachments from previously posted messages
• BUGFIX: Fix extra spaces issue when editing message footers. Weird Message Footer field display issue with extra blank spaces

The next #changelog will be published on September 1, 2023.

Take care everyone.

Mark

Changes to the site this week:

August 17, 2023:

• INTERNAL: Upgraded the Go compiler
• SYSADMIN: Migrated one of the database replica machines to the new data center.
• BUGFIX: In some instances we were allowing inbound (spam) emails with forged From header lines from groups.io domains.

August 18, 2023:

• APP: Check for old versions of the app and display a page asking them to upgrade.
• BUGFIX: Don't send bounce notifications to moderators for banned users.
• INTERNAL: Upgraded our Font Awesome package and cleaned up how we store it in the repository.

The next #changelog will be published on August 25, 2023.

Take care everyone.

Mark