Groups.io Updates

Site updates

markf@... (Mark Fletcher) — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 20:00:33 -0800

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

Site updates

markf@... (Mark Fletcher) — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 20:41:16 -0800

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

Site updates

markf@... (Mark Fletcher) — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 20:11:47 -0800

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

Site updates

markf@... (Mark Fletcher) — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 21:21:59 -0800

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

Site updates

markf@... (Mark Fletcher) — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 20:21:04 -0800

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

Site updates

markf@... (Mark Fletcher) — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 19:41:22 -0800

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

Site updates

markf@... (Mark Fletcher) — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 20:35:18 -0800

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

Site updates

markf@... (Mark Fletcher) — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 20:30:04 -0700

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

Site updates

markf@... (Mark Fletcher) — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 20:32:22 -0700

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

Site updates

markf@... (Mark Fletcher) — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 20:42:24 -0700

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

Site updates

markf@... (Mark Fletcher) — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 20:27:39 -0700

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

Site updates

markf@... (Mark Fletcher) — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 19:47:52 -0700

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

Site updates

markf@... (Mark Fletcher) — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 12:27:52 -0700

Changes to the site this week:

September 22, 2025:

BUGFIX: Some API endpoints weren't working properly with the new API key authentication method.

September 23, 2025:

CHANGE: Updated the examples in the API docs to use the new API key authentication method, and also included sample Go and Javascript code.
BUGFIX: Made the export group and export user code smarter about properly dealing with filenames, which I am hoping will fix an issue with unzipping these files on Windows.

September 25, 2025:

CHANGE: We now resize inline images only if they have a dimension larger than 2048 pixels.
CHANGE: We no longer restrict individual messages in a digest to showing 2 images.

September 26, 2025:

DOCS: Updates from Nina. Revision History
BUGFIX: In some instances, we were not parsing From lines correctly when names had > characters in them.

The next #changelog will be published on October 3, 2025.

Take care everyone.

Mark

Site updates

markf@... (Mark Fletcher) — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 20:24:42 -0700

Changes to the site this week:

September 15, 2025:

CHANGE: When approving pending messages on the web, disable the Approve button once it's been clicked, to avoid double clicks.

September 18, 2025:

INTERNAL: We're now dumping all incoming email connections with IP addresses that reverse to *.bc.googleusercontent.com, which should not be sending email.

September 19, 2025:

BUGFIX: Pagination was broken in the Banned Domains list. I also cleaned up the formatting on the page.
BUGFIX: When pasting an image into the editor, we were not properly setting the width and height attributes of the image tag, which in some circumstances would cause the image to look blurry.
DOCS: Updates from Nina. Revision History

The next #changelog will be published on September 26, 2025.

Take care everyone.

Mark

Site updates

markf@... (Mark Fletcher) — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 19:53:44 -0700

Changes to the site this week:

September 7, 2025:

CHANGE: Changed how we DKIM sign emails, changing from relaxed/simple to relaxed/relaxed and also changed which header fields we sign, in order to address some spurious DKIM signing errors we were seeing.
BUGFIX: Fixed various issues with Github Oauth token refreshing.
BUGFIX: Improved parsing of invite email lists.

September 8, 2025:

BUGFIX: For Reply To Sender groups, if a message subject line was encoded, the link in the footer of the message did not properly decode the subject for replies.
NEW: For Enterprise groups, we now support SAML-based SSO services, including specifically Microsoft Entra.
CHANGE: In the post editor, we now handle pasted inline images differently as the message is entered; we now remove/resize the inline images immediately instead of when the message is posted to the group.

September 9, 2025:

NEW: The API now supports API keys, configurable at https://groups.io/settings/apikeys

September 11, 2025:

NEW: Added new event creation and modification endpoints to the API.
BUGFIX: Fixed a couple of dark mode color issues with the API documentation.

September 12, 2025:

NEW: New database column type Github Identity, which does an Oauth authentication step to fetch a Github profile.
CHANGE: Updated/cleaned up several database and group profile pages, so that they hopefully look and work nicer now.
BUGFIX: In some cases, the notification email to moderators about group sponsorships had an incorrect amount listed.

The next #changelog will be published on September 19, 2025.

Take care everyone.

Mark

Site updates

markf@... (Mark Fletcher) — Fri, 05 Sep 2025 20:07:01 -0700

Changes to the site this week:

September 4, 2025:

BUGFIX: We were not checking whether a user had permission to edit a photo album. Security hole with Photo Albums

September 5, 2025:

CHANGE: On the Drafts page, the Date column has been changed to Updated.
DOCS: Updates from Nina. Revision History
BUGFIX: There were certain instances where, after pasting an image into the new post or reply editor that drafts would stop being saved. Groups.io clears out "Drafts" in batch after a random number of days. Why?

The next #changelog will be published on September 12, 2025.

Take care everyone.

Mark

Site updates

markf@... (Mark Fletcher) — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 19:53:06 -0700

Changes to the site this month:

July 28, 2025:

NEW: Login demonstration video, at Help Center
CHANGE: Added some text to the Pricing page about Direct Add not being included in the free trial. beta.groups.io/probe?r=https%3A%2F%2Fbeta.groups.io%2Fg%2Fmain%2Fmessage%2F39419

August 5, 2025:

DOCS: Updates from Nina. Revision History

August 8, 2025:

CHANGE: To comply with the new UK Online Safety Act, when creating a new group or subgroup, you will be required to check a box acknowledging compliance with our safety policy, which is at: Online Safety at Groups.io
API CHANGE: The /creategroup and /createsubgroup endpoints have a new required parameter, accept_policies which must have the value of true and signifies that you agree to our safety policy and terms of service. This requirement will go info effect on Monday, September 8th.
CHANGE: Changed objectionable -> inappropriate in the report notification emails. beta.groups.io/probe?r=https%3A%2F%2Fbeta.groups.io%2Fg%2Fmain%2Fmessage%2F39454
BUGFIX: Changed /editthread URLs to /edittopic.
NEW: Improved the Admin / Subgroup / Members page to show member labels and to allow filtering by member labels. beta.groups.io/probe?r=https%3A%2F%2Fbeta.groups.io%2Fg%2Fmain%2Fmessage%2F39455
NEW: Improved the Admin / Membership / Direct Add page to show parent member labels and to allow filtering by those labels. beta.groups.io/probe?r=https%3A%2F%2Fbeta.groups.io%2Fg%2Fmain%2Fmessage%2F39455

August 10, 2025:

CHANGE: Updated the Login demonstration video, minor tweaks and polish.

August 18, 2025:

CHANGE: Hardened our Oauth login flows.

August 21, 2025:

CHANGE: When deleting a wiki page, you now must type 'I understand' before the deletion will occur.

August 22, 2025:

CHANGE: You can now include much more information when direct adding members.

August 23, 2025:

CHANGE: We are currently blocking access to the website and API for all Mississippi IP addresses. Mississippi Access Update (HB1126)

August 28, 2025:

CHANGE: Added show password buttons to the login and register pages.

August 29, 2025:

CHANGE: Added new videos to the help center showing how to change your email address and how to merge two accounts. Help Center

Starting next week, I will return to publishing the #changelog weekly.

The next #changelog will be published on September 5, 2025.

Take care everyone.

Mark

Site updates

markf@... (Mark Fletcher) — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 20:38:32 -0700

Changes to the site this month:

June 30, 2025:

CHANGE: We now greylist non-member messages to groups and we are more strict about DKIM enforcement, to cut down on spam.

July 7, 2025:

NEW: Added new link 'Home' from the sidebar to the logged out home page.
NEW: New Email Weather Report, at https://groups.io/email-weather, showing recent delivery metrics to the largest email service providers.
CHANGE: Updated the event notification email to make it a bit more like the /viewevent page. beta.groups.io/probe?r=https%3A%2F%2Fbeta.groups.io%2Fg%2Fmain%2Fmessage%2F39381

July 9, 2025:

BUGFIX: In rare cases where an HTML message has elements with IDs that start with 'msgbody', when viewing those messages with other messages in the same topic, that could cause the highlight/quote reply function to not work.
BUGFIX: Updated the Group Analytics page to better handle resizing.

July 10, 2025:

CHANGE: Renamed the Email Weather Report to the Email Provider Status page.

July 18, 2025:

NEW: Member labels are now available for premium and enterprise groups.
NEW: We now have a Videos section of the Help Center, and the first two videos are a Groups.io Overview and a video demonstrating how to use member labels. We also now have a YouTube channel, that contains the same content, at Groupsio - YouTube.

July 21, 2025:

BUGFIX: Fixed group sidebar highlighting issue when viewing the Subgroups page when there are no subgroups to subscribe to. beta.groups.io/probe?r=https%3A%2F%2Fbeta.groups.io%2Fg%2Fmain%2Fmessage%2F39426
BUGFIX: Fixed the 'Members' group sidebar item jumping to indented when a non-moderator clicks around. beta.groups.io/probe?r=https%3A%2F%2Fbeta.groups.io%2Fg%2Fmain%2Fmessage%2F39426

July 22, 2025:

BUGFIX: Fixed member label sorting issues. beta.groups.io/probe?r=https%3A%2F%2Fbeta.groups.io%2Fg%2Fmain%2Fmessage%2F39435

July 23, 2025:

CHANGE: Updated the Groups.io Overview video
CHANGE: Now features the Groups.io Overview video on the home page.

July 24, 2025:

NEW: Added a table listing the top reasons why email isn't being delivered on the Email Provider Status page.

The next #changelog will be published on August 29, 2025.

Take care everyone.

Mark

Site updates

markf@... (Mark Fletcher) — Fri, 27 Jun 2025 20:49:26 -0700

Changes to the site this month:

June 4, 2025:

NEW: Added Hourly Email Latency graph to https://status.groups.io

June 9, 2025:

CHANGE: Changed minimum supported versions of Chrome to 80, Firefox to 60, and Safari to 15. Also blocking Internet Explorer.

June 10, 2025:

CHANGE: Increase the max file size limit for Files uploads to 2GB.

June 11, 2025:

CHANGE: Due to a policy change by Microsoft, we now have to re-write the From lines of all emails to Microsoft properties (hotmail/outlook/etc).
NEW: Reporting automated API uptime percentage to https://status.groups.io

June 12, 2025:

BUGFIX: Add missing Reply To settings to the group home page. Some reply-to settings don't show up on home page
BUGFIX: Fix URL parameter encoding issue with sendloginlink redirect. Missing + from email alias address in the Send Log In Link page
BUGFIX: Fix old /account link in account bounce notification messages. Stale link in You're Bouncing message
NEW: Premium and Enterprise groups now have access to a new Analytics page, which tracks various metrics for your groups.

June 13, 2025:

SYSADMIN: Rotated DKIM keys and created a system to automate this.

June 16, 2025:

NEW: Enterprise groups can now set individual DNS records instead of having to delegate a subdomain in order for us to white-label. Some DNS services don't allow subdomain delegation, so this was a problem.
BUGFIX: Display the full subscriber name on the moderator rejoin notifications. View/Reply Online (#39358)

June 17, 2025:

NEW: Implemented a new bot detection and prevention system on the website, and rolled it out to a limited set of countries.

June 18, 2025:

NEW: We now greylist emails to +owner addresses for Improved spam filtering.

June 19, 2025:

CHANGE: Rolled out the bot detection and prevention system to all traffic.
CHANGE: Changed the layout of the Analytics page. beta.groups.io/probe?r=https%3A%2F%2Fbeta.groups.io%2Fg%2Fmain%2Fmessage%2F39354
NEW: Add a page that's displayed when accessing the website with an out-of-date browser.
BUGFIX: Fixed links to authors in groups with subgroups in the /topics page. beta.groups.io/probe?r=https%3A%2F%2Fbeta.groups.io%2Fg%2Fmain%2Fmessage%2F39367
BUGFIX: When following a topic, we send out existing emails in the topic. Those emails were missing some headers that we normally add, and contained some headers that we normally strip out because they cause delivery problems.

June 23, 2025:

BUGFIX: Fix escaping issue with the resub notification email. beta.groups.io/probe?r=https%3A%2F%2Fbeta.groups.io%2Fg%2Fmain%2Fmessage%2F39383
CHANGE: Due to a change in policy, we now have to re-write the From lines of all emails to Virgin Media properties (ntlworld.com,blueyonder.co.uk,etc).

June 26, 2025:

NEW: In the groups analytics page, we're now tracking number of replies per day, member status distribution, email delivery preferences, and we're listing the top posters.

June 27, 2025:

CHANGE: Fixes to the Analytics page to the X-axis alignment of the graphs.

The next #changelog will be published on July 25, 2025.

Take care everyone.

Mark

Site updates

markf@... (Mark Fletcher) — Fri, 30 May 2025 20:53:16 -0700

Changes to the site this week:

May 29, 2025:

CHANGE: Don't permit exclamation points in email addresses. They're technically allowed, but in practice they indicate spammers only.
CHANGE: For SMTP TLS negotiations, only use TLS version 1.2 as 1.3 is not yet widely supported. This was causing email to some servers to bounce. I have pro-actively looked for affected domains and unbounced affected accounts.
NEW: Added hourly web uptime and latency statistics to the Groups.io status page (https://status.groups.io) and changed the formatting to include uptime stats.

May 30, 2025:

CHANGE: Remove the Promote tab from the Group sidebar for Invite Only groups. Re: Option to disallow join applications

The next #changelog will be published on June 27, 2025.

Take care everyone.

Mark