Updates to the Groups.io service.
May 9, 2025
- 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!
May 8, 2025
- 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.
May 7, 2025
- 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
May 2, 2025
- 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.
April 25, 2025
- 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.
April 24, 2025
- 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.
April 23, 2025
- 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.
April 22, 2025
- NEW: We now support Apple Pay and Google Pay for group sponsorship payments.
April 19, 2025
- 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.
April 18, 2025
- CHANGE: Improved the subject line and text of the bounce notification emails.
April 17, 2025
- 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.
April 16, 2025
- CHANGE: When a moderator changes the name of a group, we now also change the **Subject Tag** to match.
April 14, 2025
- SYSADMIN: We're now blocking connections from Tencent's Datacenter AS 45090.
April 4, 2025
- INTERNAL: Fixed several issues with clean shut down of the email servers.
April 2, 2025
- INTERNAL: Changed the list of TLS cipher suites we will accept because of compatibility issues/changes at several domains.
- INTERNAL: Upgraded to the latest version of the Go compiler.
April 1, 2025
- CHANGE: We now turn attachments into links if they total more than 15MB in size. Also, I've improved the look of the links, and links do no require authentication for the first 5 days after they have been sent. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/39234
- CHANGE: If the Date header on an email is in the future or more than days in the past, we re-write it to reflect the current time. Some email service providers block email with these dates, which they consider invalid.
March 28, 2025
- BUGFIX: In the help center, links in the Glossary sidebar were not working.
- BUGFIX: In the help center search, there were sometimes duplicates of results.
- BUGFIX: In the help center search, links to some FAQ entries did not work.
- BUGFIX: In the help center search, some searches included unrelated results.
- CHANGE: Improved the formatting of the help center search results page.
March 27, 2025
- CHANGE: Catch Yahoo policy bounces, indicating the email contains a URL they don't like, and treat them as soft bounces, not hard bounces.
March 25, 2025
- CHANGE: Catch message too large bounces and treat them as soft bounces, not hard bounces.
March 21, 2025
- UPDATE: Merged updated Dutch translations from artindk.
- BUGFIX: Don't count unread messages from closed chats when calculating badge numbers. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/topic/109726477