Updates to the Groups.io service.
August 21, 2025
- CHANGE: When deleting a wiki page, you now must type 'I understand' before the deletion will occur.
August 18, 2025
- CHANGE: Hardened our Oauth login flows.
August 10, 2025
- CHANGE: Updated the Login demonstration video, minor tweaks and polish.
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: https://groups.io/static/online-safety
- 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. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/39454
- BUGFIX: Changed /editthread URLs to /edittopic.
- NEW: Improved the **Admin / Subgroup / Members** page to show member labels and to allow filtering by member labels. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/39455
- NEW: Improved the **Admin / Membership / Direct Add** page to show parent member labels and to allow filtering by those labels. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/39455
August 5, 2025
- DOCS: Updates from Nina. https://groups.io/helpcenter/single/revisionhistory
July 28, 2025
- NEW: Login demonstration video, at https://groups.io/helpcenter/videos/login
- CHANGE: Added some text to the Pricing page about Direct Add not being included in the free trial. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/39419
July 24, 2025
- NEW: Added a table listing the top reasons why email isn't being delivered on the Email Provider Status page.
July 23, 2025
- CHANGE: Updated the Groups.io Overview video
- CHANGE: Now features the Groups.io Overview video on the home page.
July 22, 2025
- BUGFIX: Fixed member label sorting issues. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/39435
July 21, 2025
- BUGFIX: Fixed group sidebar highlighting issue when viewing the Subgroups page when there are no subgroups to subscribe to. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/39426
- BUGFIX: Fixed the 'Members' group sidebar item jumping to indented when a non-moderator clicks around. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/39426
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](https://www.youtube.com/@Groupsio).
July 10, 2025
- CHANGE: Renamed the Email Weather Report to the Email Provider Status page.
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 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. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/39381
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.
June 27, 2025
- CHANGE: Fixes to the Analytics page to the X-axis alignment of the graphs.
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 23, 2025
- BUGFIX: Fix escaping issue with the resub notification email. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/39383
- 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 19, 2025
- CHANGE: Rolled out the bot detection and prevention system to all traffic.
- CHANGE: Changed the layout of the Analytics page. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/39354
- 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. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/39367
- 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 18, 2025
- NEW: We now greylist emails to +owner addresses for Improved spam filtering.