Updates to the Groups.io service.

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July 14, 2021

• NEW: You can now tapback chat messages (thumbs up/down/heart/exclamation mark/etc).
• NEW: You can now send photos as chat messages.
• NEW: When typing a chat message, if you type the @ character, that brings up an auto-completion list of user names.
• NEW: You can now delete chat messages.

July 13, 2021

• INTERNAL: More work on detecting spammers.
• BUGFIX: Fixed an issue where erroneous `moderator permissions` activity log change messages were being generated. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/topic/spurious_activity_log_entry/84177816?p=,,,20,0,0,0::recentpostdate%2Fsticky,,,20,2,0,84177816
• SYSADMIN: Switched our internal DNS caching architecture to use CoreDNS, in the hopes of being able to track down/eliminate spurious DNS MX lookup errors.

July 12, 2021

• BUGFIX: Special event reminders were being sent as normal messages. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/topic/calendar_not_sending_special/84002860?p=,,,20,0,0,0::recentpostdate%2Fsticky,,,20,2,0,84002860
• CHANGE: The new activity log entry `Moderator changed notifications` is used for notification changes. Past changes were logged with `Moderator changed moderator permissions`.
• BUGFIX: In some instances the link included in the login link email contained a subdomain, which was invalid.

June 30, 2021

• APP BUGFIX: In some instances, entering a message in a chat could lead to multiple copies of that message being shown on the page.
• APP BUGFIX: Issues with polls have been fixed. https://beta.groups.io/g/app/topic/voting_options_still_shown/83845994?p=,,,20,0,0,0::recentpostdate%2Fsticky,,,20,2,0,83845994) and [Discussion](https://beta.groups.io/g/app/topic/poll_view_results_link_in/83844116?p=,,,20,0,0,0::recentpostdate%2Fsticky,,,20,2,0,83844116

June 29, 2021

• BUGFIX: Moderator notifications and calendar event emails were not generated when adding members directly to subgroups. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/topic/notification_inconsistencies/83872046?p=,,,20,0,0,0::recentpostdate%2Fsticky,,,20,2,0,83872046
• NEW: New `mentions only` notification option for chats.

June 28, 2021

• CHANGE: Changed subject prefix `Happening Now` to `Now`. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/topic/subject_line_length/83808094?p=,,,20,0,0,0::recentpostdate%2Fsticky,,,20,2,0,83808094
• APP BUGFIX: Clicking on an image in a message should no longer give a network error. https://beta.groups.io/g/app/topic/tapping_on_image_in_message/83788989?p=,,,20,0,0,0::recentpostdate%2Fsticky,,,20,2,0,83788989

June 25, 2021

• BUGFIX: The activity log entry for a moderator changing a member's email address did not properly include the new email address.

June 17, 2021

• DOCS: Member Manual updates from Nina.
• NEW: You can now sort columns when viewing poll responses by answer.
• BUGFIX: If a #poll-notice is pending, and the poll is edited by a moderator before approval, and the moderater had a display name set but the member who created the poll did not have a display name set, the member's display name would be set to the moderator's display name.
• NEW: You can now export individual poll results, in either CSV or JSON format.
• NEW: Poll responses are now shown with links to the responders' profiles.
• NEW: When viewing poll responses, the respondents display/fullnames are now updated if they've changed since voting occurred.

June 16, 2021

• NEW: Export group now has an option to export polls.
• BUGFIX: For enterprise groups with `Disable Signups` set to true, we were still showing the `Apply` button on the group home page, even when it did nothing.
• BUGFIX: Fix overlapping box when no events to display in calendar list view. https://beta.groups.io/g/app/topic/calendar_buttons_partially/83467777?p=,,,20,0,0,0::recentpostdate%2Fsticky,,,20,2,0,83467777

June 15, 2021

• BUGFIX: Strip out duplicate group subject tags in messages sent `+owner`. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/topic/subject_tags_in_non_group/83557263?p=,,,20,0,0,0::recentpostdate%2Fsticky,,,20,2,0,83557263
• NEW: Added more sig tags to be stripped out. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/topic/strip_out_more_common_email/83555715?p=,,,20,0,0,0::recentpostdate%2Fsticky,,,20,2,0,83555715

June 14, 2021

• CHANGE: Make the quoted printable decoder more liberal by accepting lower case hex letters.

June 11, 2021

• NEW: Stripe connect should now work for Enterprise groups looking to set up donations.
• BUGFIX: Fixed infinite scroll in the app in the `View RSVPs` page. https://beta.groups.io/g/app/topic/only_first_20_responders_are/83444946?p=,,,20,0,0,0::recentpostdate%2Fsticky,,,20,2,0,83444946
• CHANGE: In full digests, we were limiting the number of attachments per message to 2. Now we limit the number of included images to 2, but include all other attachments (as links back to the website, as before).

June 10, 2021

• DOCS: Updates to the Members Manual and the Owners Manual from Nina.
• BUGFIX: The `Preview` button when adding/editing a Markdown formatted Member Notice did not work.
• BUGFIX: The `Back` button on the Add/Event event page did not work correctly for people with date preferences other than the default US format. https://beta.groups.io/g/app/topic/calendar_event_back_button/83171776?p=,,,20,0,0,0::recentpostdate%2Fsticky,,,20,2,0,83171776
• CHANGE: Limit the chat text entry window to 3 lines. This fixes the bug where the text area could be hidden under the mobile/app footer. Also, it's just a good idea. https://beta.groups.io/g/app/topic/unable_to_add_comments_to_a/83284451?p=,,,20,0,0,0::recentpostdate%2Fsticky,,,20,2,0,83284451

June 9, 2021

• SYSADMIN: Migrated primary pgbouncer instance to a dedicated CPU instance for better performance.
• BUGFIX: When viewing a pending member in the /member page, we were checking the `Remove Members` privilege instead of the `Approve Pending Members` privilege to determine if the moderator could reject the pending member.

June 8, 2021

• APP BUGFIX: When editing an event in the app, sometimes the date picker fields were not initialized correctly. https://beta.groups.io/g/app/topic/calender_bug/83156804?p=,,,20,0,0,0::recentpostdate%2Fsticky,,,20,2,0,83156804
• APP BUGFIX: Using the back button/swipe to return to the Groups page would cause infinite scrolling to not work. https://beta.groups.io/g/app/topic/android_back_arrow/83104319?p=,,,20,0,0,0::recentpostdate%2Fsticky,,,20,2,0,83104319
• INTERNAL: More work on improving tests and the test harness.

June 7, 2021

• BUGFIX: Re-sent invites had potentially incorrect expiration dates. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/topic/invitation_expiration/83314254?p=,,,20,0,0,0::recentpostdate%2Fsticky,,,20,2,0,83314254
• CHANGE: Margin formatting tweaks in the chat window.
• BUGFIX: An error prevented viewing a +owner message via an activity log message from a person who is no longer a member of the group.

June 3, 2021

• BUGFIX: Fixed export of some files. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/topic/some_files_missing_from/83290116?p=,,,20,0,0,0::recentpostdate%2Fsticky,,,20,2,0,83290116
• CHANGE: Reorder processing in the export group service to hopefully fix a database timeout issue.
• CHANGE: When doing a JSON import of a table, keep the existing Updated fields on the rows. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/topic/retain_original_update_field/83196524?p=,,,20,0,0,0::recentpostdate%2Fsticky,,,20,2,0,83196524
• BUGFIX: If doing a message search with a poster ID representing a user who is no longer a member of the group, don't return every single message. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/topic/all_messages_by_this_member/83190455?p=,,,20,0,0,0::recentpostdate%2Fsticky,,,20,2,0,83190455
• CHANGE: When sending a message to a member, if you select a member notice, the activity log entry will now point to that member notice instead of showing the entire message as sent. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/29559
• BUGFIX: Some system notifications were not treated in a consistent way in that some were not ignoring the `Normalize HTML Emails` setting, as they had previous to a change on May 27th. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/topic/html_formatting_being/83284444?p=,,,20,0,0,0::recentpostdate%2Fsticky,,,20,2,0,83284444
• BUGFIX: The chat window was not sizing properly, so that the text entry box was not visible on the screen. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/topic/chat_text_entry_field_hidden/83272614?p=,,,20,0,0,0::recentpostdate%2Fsticky,,,20,2,0,83272614
• NEW: There's a new Locked Topic Member Notice. If there is an active locked topic member notice, it will be sent to the group when a topic is locked using the `Lock Topic` dropdown in the Topics page. Also, in the `Topic Properties` page, when you click the `Lock Topic` checkbox, a new selector appears allowing you to send a specific locked topic member notice to the group when you lock the topic.

May 26, 2021

• CHANGE: The long format for dates for people and groups that have a preference of `MM/DD/YYYY` is now `Monday, January 2, 2006`. For all others, it continues to be `Monday, 2 January 2006`.
• INTERNAL: Cleaned up some technical debt around #cal-reminder and #cal-notice message generation. As a side effect, #cal-reminder messages now include ICS attachments, like #cal-invite notices.
• CHANGE: For message notifications, use the sender's name or email address as the title when possible, instead of just "New message". https://beta.groups.io/g/main/topic/show_display_name_in_push/83100987?p=,,,20,0,0,0::recentpostdate%2Fsticky,,,20,2,0,83100987

May 25, 2021

• CHANGE: Moderators and owners can now reply to a locked topic. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/topic/announce_on_topic_lock/83052931?p=,,,20,0,0,0::recentpostdate%2Fsticky,,,20,2,0,83052931
• APP: Added support for Android back buttons, and on iOS swiping right now goes back one page.
• BUGFIX: Fixed apostrophe conversions in notification subjects and bodies. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/topic/apostrophes_in_event_names/82895875?p=,,,20,0,0,0::recentpostdate%2Fsticky,,,20,2,0,82895875
• BUGFIX: Better parsing of Qmail bounce messages. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/topic/unknown_bounce_issue/83030991?p=,,,20,0,0,0::recentpostdate%2Fsticky,,,20,2,0,83030991
• CHANGE: Work on being able to go back to search results from the breadcrumb line, for viewing members and messages.

May 24, 2021

• BUGFIX: Pagination didn't work on the `Sent Invitations` page on mobile or the app. https://beta.groups.io/g/app/topic/sent_invitations/83030934?p=,,,20,0,0,0::recentpostdate%2Fsticky,,,20,2,0,83030934
• BUGFIX: Due to a previous change to support unread message tracking in the app, sometimes digests would not be generated when they should have been. No digest messages were lost, some were just delayed. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/topic/non_daily_digests/83031009?p=,,,20,0,0,0::recentpostdate%2Fsticky,,,20,2,0,83031009