Updates to the Groups.io service.


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January 24, 2025

  • BUGFIX: Tweaks to the date picker on the add event page to hopefully make it more compatible with screen readers.

January 22, 2025


January 17, 2025


January 15, 2025


January 10, 2025


January 7, 2025

  • BUGFIX: We were erroneously sending out #cal-notice notifications for some calendar events that had been deleted.

January 6, 2025

  • CHANGE: Expired pending members will once again be added to the Past Members page.
  • BUGFIX: French translation fixes.
  • BUGFIX: Fix additional instances of RSVP notification emails being sent without a proper name in the From header. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/39051

December 20, 2024


December 11, 2024

  • NEW: The /activity page now shows relevant pending message activities (approved, deleted, rejected, expired)

December 9, 2024

  • BUGFIX: We were rotating some videos that didn't actually need to be rotated.

December 4, 2024

  • NEW: Download Members now includes any extra member data fields in the .csv export

November 22, 2024

  • INTERNAL: Updated several internal dashboards and revamped Influxdb retention policies.

November 20, 2024

  • BUGFIX: For enterprise groups, our DMARC re-writing was too aggressive, and we were re-writing the from lines from some moderator notifications, causing issues with approving pending messages via email.
  • APP: Released new versions of the iOS and Android apps, with updated libraries but no other changes.

November 19, 2024

  • BUGFIX: Fixed an internal issue where we were holding an image cache lock too long which in some cases was causing site slowness.

November 15, 2024

  • BUGFIX: Some videos sent as attachments would play upside down on the website.

November 13, 2024

  • BUGFIX: The code that detected which requests were from bots was missing some bots, causing extra load on the systems from should-be-banned bots.
  • CHANGE: Banned some new bots and IP addresses that were abusing the service.
  • CHANGE: When blocking a bot, we now return the Forbidden HTTP status; previously we were returning Not Found.
  • APP CHANGE: When entering a chat, there were instances where, even if the app has permission to send notifications, we weren't storing the notification token correctly, and therefore not sending notifications.

November 11, 2024

  • SYSADMIN: Doubled the capacity of the web servers to work to address site sluggishness issues.

November 1, 2024

  • BUGFIX: In the app, in some instances in dark mode, you could not gain focus of the editor.
  • BUGFIX: In the app, in chat, if you uploaded a photo, you were required to type something before the send button would appear.

October 29, 2024


October 28, 2024

  • CHANGE: On narrow screens, reduce the left and right margins.
  • CHANGE: Increase the speed of drawer and modal transitions from 0.3s to 0.2s.
  • BUGFIX: Fix several instances of broken breadcrumbs.