Updates to the Groups.io service.
June 28, 2023
- NEW: Subgroups can now have a different default language than the parent group. Also, setting the parent group's default language now (re)sets all subgroups' default language to the new parent group's default language.
- NEW: When configuring database Address columns, you can now specify that the street, city, state, zip and/or country fields be excluded.
- CHANGE: Updated the message reply page with the new sender display.
- BUGFIX: The `/attachments` page should only be viewable by group moderators. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/topic/attachments_page_is_not/99795123?p=,,,20,0,0,0::recentpostdate/sticky,,,20,2,0,99795123,previd%3D9223372036854775807,nextid%3D1687002751856705896&previd=9223372036854775807&nextid=1687002751856705896
June 27, 2023
- CHANGE: Updated the `New Poll` page with the new sender display.
- CHANGE: Updated the `/posttosub` page with the new sender display.
- CHANGE: Added user icon to the navbar account dropdown.
- CHANGE: Combined the recently added `Mentions` notification preference into the existing `Messages` notification. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/topic/new_mention_notification/99690317?p=,,,20,0,0,0::recentpostdate/sticky,,,20,2,0,99690317,previd%3D9223372036854775807,nextid%3D1686791647464597134&previd=9223372036854775807&nextid=1686791647464597134
- INTERNAL: Optimized notification sending.
June 26, 2023
- CHANGE: Updated the `New Topic` page with the new sender display.
- BUGFIX: Do a better job of cleaning subject lines to the +owner address. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/topic/group_owner_email_processing/99749507?p=,,,20,0,0,0::recentpostdate/sticky,,,20,2,0,99749507,previd%3D9223372036854775807,nextid%3D1686621253699658941&previd=9223372036854775807&nextid=1686621253699658941
June 23, 2023
- BUGFIX: `/posttosub` was not working in some instances. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/topic/message_s_to_members/99706909?p=,,,20,0,0,0::recentpostdate/sticky,,,20,2,0,99706909,previd%3D9223372036854775807,nextid%3D1686331359457164883&previd=9223372036854775807&nextid=1686331359457164883
June 21, 2023
- CHANGE: Updated the edit pending message page to more match the pending message page.
- CHANGE: Pending message reject notices now get emailed with the From set to the +owner address (previously they were sent from noreply).
- NEW: Added `EXTERNAL` and `[SPAM]` to the list of subject prefixes that we remove. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/topic/subject_prefix_words/99676982?p=,,,20,0,0,0::recentpostdate/sticky,,,20,2,0,99676982,previd%3D9223372036854775807,nextid%3D1686199250510299836&previd=9223372036854775807&nextid=1686199250510299836
- NEW: Subscriptions have a new notification, `Mentions`, to control how you get notified when someone mentions your user name in a group message.
June 20, 2023
- NEW: There is a new group setting, 'Allow Videos in Photos', and when that is checked there is a new selector to determine the max size of videos allowed in the Photos section.
- CHANGE: When viewing the likes for a message, if a liker is no longer a member of the group, display `[Person is no longer a member]`.
- BUGFIX: Fixes to get SSO using NoviAMS working.
June 18, 2023
- CHANGE: Right align pending message and pending sub badge counts in the group sidebar. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/topic/right_align_pending_message/99615498?p=,,,20,0,0,0::recentpostdate/sticky,,,20,2,0,99615498,previd%3D9223372036854775807,nextid%3D1685755301250526970&previd=9223372036854775807&nextid=1685755301250526970
June 16, 2023
- NEW: Added `reason` field to the Bulk Remove Member page.
- NEW: Added `reason` field on the `/members` Verify Action dialog when banning people.
- NEW: When unbanning someone you can enter a reason.
- BUGFIX: Unbanning someone from the `/member` page did not generate an activity log entry.
- DOCS: Updates from Nina. https://groups.io/helpcenter/ownersmanual/1/revision-history), [Members Manual Revision History](https://groups.io/helpcenter/membersmanual/1/revision-history
June 15, 2023
- CHANGE: In lock topic notifications, we now include a `References` header pointing back to the original topic. This allows the system to lock topics that are more than two weeks old successfully (we only do subject matching to determine replies for two weeks).
June 13, 2023
- BUGFIX: Video dialog windows could sometimes extend past the viewport, meaning you couldn't see the entire video.
- CHANGE: Improved the wording of chat post notifications.
June 9, 2023
- NEW: You can now upload videos to chats.
June 8, 2023
- BUGFIX: When adding an event, if you first set a start and end time, then decide to check the All Day checkbox to make the event go all day, the #cal-notice messages would still be sent out at the start time you had originally set, instead of at Midnight when they should go out. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/topic/calendar_notices_are_being/99070121?p=,,,20,0,0,0::recentpostdate/sticky,,,20,2,20,99070121,previd%3D1684944739567514923,nextid%3D1683338529641706600&previd=1684944739567514923&nextid=1683338529641706600
June 6, 2023
- CHANGE: Improved the display of attachments in digests, matching the changes made on the website last week.
- BUGFIX: Pull to refresh on the app was using the wrong element, so the sidebar got pulled down as well.
- CHANGE: In the pending message screen, if you click on the email address of the sender, that brings up the dropdown with options for the sender. Click on the email address at the top of that to automatically copy the email address into your clipboard. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/topic/99315746#34976
June 5, 2023
- NEW: You can now click on an image in a chat to bring up a bigger version of the image.
- NEW: Clicking video attachments now brings up a viewer on the web instead of just downloading the attachments (which you can still do.)
June 4, 2023
- BUGFIX: When loading an existing chat with images, there could be flashing as the images load.
June 3, 2023
- NEW: When removing or banning someone, you can now enter a reason which will be displayed in the activity log.
June 2, 2023
- NEW: There is a new group `ReplyTo` setting for groups that have subgroups, `Reply To Other Group`. When selected, another selector is displayed allowing you to select the other group that replies should be sent to. This works for normal groups and it works for `Announce` groups.
- CHANGE: Added back the date display on the pending message page.
- BUGFIX: When splitting a message into reply parts, if the first split chunk contains no text, remove it. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/topic/99265503
June 1, 2023
- CHANGE: When displaying an HTML message in the archives, if an element has a height or width specified, only allow that if the values are in percentages, not pixels. This is to hopefully prevent weird horizontal/vertical scrolling of the message.
- BUGFIX: The attachment size display in the pending message page was incorrect. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/topic/99200979
- CHANGE: Cleaned up the display of attachments on the website.
- NEW: In chat, you can now reply to specific messages.
May 31, 2023
- CHANGE: Changed the Reply page, removing the `Private` and `Group Reply` toggle system and replacing it with a selector to choose where your reply should go.
May 30, 2023
- BUGFIX: `New Topic` links appeared in message and digest footers in announcement groups for non-moderators. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/topic/new_topic_appears_in_the/99208316?p=,,,100,0,0,0::recentpostdate/sticky,,,100,2,0,99208316,previd%3D9223372036854775807,nextid%3D1676059606921437845&previd=9223372036854775807&nextid=1676059606921437845
- CHANGE: Tweaks to the pending message page, including showing the reason why the message is pending, as well as adding back the deleted Delete button.
- CHANGE: Small changes to the pending messages page to be more consistent with the pending message page.