Groups.io: Changelog

CHANGE: Remove the Promote tab from the Group sidebar for Invite Only groups. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/39328

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.

BUGFIX: Fixed several minor spacing issues in activity log entries.
NEW: Added a new `Invite Only` mode for groups, which when toggled, prevents people from applying or joining the group. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/39305
INTERNAL: We are now storing data needed for our upcoming group analytics dashboard.
DOCS: Updates from Nina. https://groups.io/helpcenter/single/revisionhistory

BUGFIX: On the /static/pricing page, the link to group sponsorship information was outdated. (Thanks Nina!)

CHANGE: The Member and Owner FAQs in the Help Center now show all entries and answers on one page, instead of having to click through each FAQ.
CHANGE: Increased the maximum email size for premium and enterprise groups to 200MB from 100MB.

NEW: Apple Pay and Google Pay are now supported for paying group hosting fees.
CHANGE: When sponsoring a group, you now have the option of using the card on file instead of always having to re-enter it.
BUGFIX: If a group has an overdue invoice but has enough sponsorship reserves to pay it, the invoice can be paid without a valid credit card needed.
CHANGE: Removed the i=1 parameter when starting a new Ask chat. https://beta.groups.io/g/ai/message/85

NEW: We will now send out emails to group owners when their free groups approach 100 members, alerting them to this and the fact that free groups are capped at 100 members.
CHANGE: Updated the Move button icon on the group photo page to match the move icon in the Files section.
DOCS: Updates from Nina. https://groups.io/helpcenter/single/revisionhistory
CHANGE: Merged in French language translation fixes. Thank you seranpion for your help!

CHANGE: Changed some of the canonical links on message pages and added DiscussionForumPosting structured data headers to improve SEO and archive appearance on search engine result pages.

CHANGE: The trial length for new premium group trials is now 30 days. This change does not apply to existing premium trial groups.
NEW: New intergration, Bluesky Cross-Posting. You can automatically share the **first message in a new topic** to your linked Bluesky account - **if it includes one of your selected hashtags**. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/39296

CHANGE: Change the Files section move icon. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/39275
BUGFIX: In some instances, for groups with subgroups, the welcome message when joining a subgroup would contain a broken link. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/39279
BUGFIX: On the /billing page, the Chat Photo storage amounts were incorrect. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/39280
CHANGE: On the /billing page, changed how we display storage amounts. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/39281
DOCS: Updates from Nina. https://groups.io/helpcenter/single/revisionhistory
NEW: The /gethashtags API endpoint now supports 'topic_count' as a sort field. https://beta.groups.io/g/api/message/420
CHANGE: Sync'ed up translation files with latest changes on the site.

NEW: Display the subject line for 'Rejected Message - Banned domain' activity log entries. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/39260
CHANGE: Links to attachments in digests now no longer require being logged in to click on for the first 5 days, same as when we pull attachments out of individual emails.
CHANGE: Merged in French language translation fixes. Thank you seranpion for your help!
DOCS: Updated docs from Nina.

NEW: Free groups that have not previously done the free premium trial can now do so by going to the Upgrade page under Admin -> Preferences.

SYSADMIN: We are now blocking AS 45899, VNPT Corp, because their crawlers were abusing the system.
SYSADMIN: We are now blocking AS 132203, another TENCENT block, because their crawlers were abusing the system.

NEW: We now support Apple Pay and Google Pay for group sponsorship payments.

NEW: Added an RSS feed to the Changelog page.
BUGFIX: In some cases, after editing a message that contains an inline image, a broken image would show up in the archives.

CHANGE: Improved the subject line and text of the bounce notification emails.

CHANGE: Added a footer section to the logged out home page with links to different parts of the site, along with a new Changelog page.
BUGFIX: Fixed automatic dark mode detection on the logged out home page.

CHANGE: When a moderator changes the name of a group, we now also change the **Subject Tag** to match.

SYSADMIN: We're now blocking connections from Tencent's Datacenter AS 45090.

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