Changes to the site this week:

August 27, 2024:

• INTERNAL: We now handle large file uploads in the Files section better, and the previous 100MB file size limit has been increased to 2GB.
• CHANGE: I have changed the file picker widget in the Files section. It now includes a progress bar during uploads.

August 28, 2024:

• CHANGE: Now we lazy load images when viewing the archives. #bug - Images in (long) thread not all loading
• INTERNAL: Increased our rate limiting settings, which were getting tripped by loading lots of images. #bug - Images in (long) thread not all loading
• BUGFIX: Fixed several small HTML issues in various message archive pages.
• BUGFIX: When navigating between pages on the website, we were inadvertently re-fetching all images from the previous page.

August 30, 2024:

• CHANGE: Rotated the DKIM signature and set a timeout. Investigated implementing an automatic rotation system to thwart a recent spamming issue.
• CHANGE: Changed the wording of the new Files upload widget to "Drag and drop files here, or click to choose files". Re: Updated Files uploading

I am on vacation next week. Responses to email and support will be delayed during that time. The next #changelog will be published on September 13, 2024.

Take care everyone.

Mark

Changes to the site this week:

August 5, 2024:

• BUGFIX: In some instances when a member was viewing a database table, the 'View Row' button would not appear.

August 20, 2024:

• BUGFIX: Fix styling of Open/Closed chat dropdown. Mouse cursor in main Chats screen drodown
• BUGFIX: Be smarter about displaying the sender in "Non-member attempted to send message" activity log entries. Provide the email address of non-member messages

August 22, 2024:

• INTERNAL: I was not limiting the resource usage of ImageMagick when resizing/converting images. An SVG file in a message with massive dimensions was causing ImageMagick to exhaust memory and disk space on various machines.

August 23, 2024:

• BUGFIX: Fix modal footer button vertical alignment when buttons wrap on narrow screens. Small layout tweak for mobile message approvals
• CHANGE: When banning a domain that's already been banned, display a notice saying as such. Add info if adding a domain to the Banned Domains list that is already there
• BUGFIX: When viewing a Past Member, the breadcrumbs led to broken URLs. Problems in Admin/Members webpages
• BUGFIX: Deleted account activity log messages now longer link to the user (which was broken). Members leaving, how it is listed in the Activity log
• NEW: When unsubscribing from a group via the new, now pop up a dialog box where the member can enter a reason why they're leaving. Members leaving, how it is listed in the Activity log
• CHANGE: A group's handle attachments setting now applies to +owner messages as well. Attachments to Owner

The next #changelog will be published on August 30, 2024.

Take care everyone.

Mark

Changes to the site this week:

July 29, 2024:

• CHANGE: Changed Responder to Respondent in several parts of the website for clarity.

July 31, 2024:

• INTERNAL: Added a cache for attachment images to speed up delivery.
• CHANGE: Images shown in the /topics page are now delivered properly reduced in size to speed up delivery.

August 2, 2024:

• BUGFIX: Muted/Followed Hashtags entries weren't included the mobile More menu.
• BUGFIX: Various group rename user interface issues. Group renaming display problem
• BUGFIX: Don't modify wiki page link targets. Links in wiki open in new tab every time
• BUGFIX: Don't send a #cal-invite notice when editing a repeating event unless specifically asked. Updating a repeating event sends a cal-invite message

I am on vacation the next two weeks. Responses to email and support will be delayed during that time. The next #changelog will be published on August 23, 2024.

Take care everyone.

Mark

Changes to the site this week:

July 21, 2024:

• BUGFIX: In some instances, the RSVP link in #cal-invite notifications would lead back to the group calendar instead of the event.

July 23, 2024:

• BUGFIX: In message search, the Collapse Threads setting would not be used with infinite scroll. [email protected] | Search “Tool > Collapse Topics” snafu
• BUGFIX: Removed the unnecessary timezone display next to the group member Joined date. Possible incorrect time zone
• CHANGE: Changed the text for the hamburger icon in the narrow window nav bar from More to Menu.
• BUGFIX: When viewing hashtags in the grid format, if a hashtag was muted but also had notifications enabled, we'd unnecessarily display the bell icon.
• BUGFIX: Do not create a past member record when a pending member expires or is rejected. Re: Moderator option to resume past memberships

The next #changelog will be published on August 2, 2024.

Take care everyone.

Mark

Changes to the site this week:

July 15, 2024:

• BUGFIX: When the system disables an account, if that account had already been banned in a group, the disabling was not being logged in that group.
• BUGFIX: Infinite scroll of the /topics and /messages pages would show repeating header lines. [email protected] | Heading repeats in topic list.

July 16, 2024:

• BUGFIX: The font 'Courier New' was misspelled in the editor, leading to possible font mismatch problems.

July 17, 2024:

• NEW: There is a new Email database column type. New field type for email address in database tables
• CHANGE: Database change notification emails now link to the relevant database.

July 18, 2024:

• CHANGE: Changed Date link colors to be more consistent. Change "Date" in message display from a button to a hyperlink

July 19, 2024:

• BUGFIX: In the narrow user Groups page, strip formatting from group descriptions. [email protected] | Exceeding slotted box

The next #changelog will be published on July 24, 2024.

Take care everyone.

Mark

Changes to the site this week:

July 8, 2024:

• ADMIN: Added https://beta.groups.io/g/ai group to discuss possible AI/LLM assisted new features for Groups.io

July 9, 2024:

• NEW: Return an already subscribed error message when trying to subscribe via email to a group you're already a part of. Email subscription attempts if already subscribed shouldn't be ignored

July 10, 2024:

• NEW: Added email/subject search to the pending messages pages.

July 12, 2024:

• BUGFIX: When entering italicized, bolded, or underlined text in the editor before either a person's signature or a quoted reply, spaces would be ignored. Lose character spacing after using italics
• CHANGE: Some broken email systems generate emails with Message-ID headers that are improperly formatted. I've updated our code to be able to parse these header lines. This will fix some cases where topics are split when they should not have been.
• BUGFIX: Search was unavailable on the /subgroupmembers page when viewing on narrow screens.
• BUGFIX: When clicking a repeating event activity log entry, the Organizer fields may have been pre-populated incorrectly. Repeating event display error using Activity Log link
• CHANGE: Our email parsing library would correctly error out on emails that incorrectly had quoted-printable sections with very long lines (quoted-printable lines should only be a max of 76 characters). Now we are more liberal in parsing those.

The next #changelog will be published on July 19, 2024.

Take care everyone.

Mark

Changes to the site this week:

June 25, 2024:

• INTERNAL: Change how we update our DNS servers to fix a race condition when renewing our Let's Encrypt certs.

June 26, 2024:

• BUGFIX: Infinite scrolling on narrow screens caused the page to either blank out and/or jump to the top of the page. [email protected] | #iOS It was suggested I report this problem here - see below
• BUGFIX: Fixed the erroneous with a calendar event, but they do not have permission to add events to the calendar activity log messages. [email protected] | Many experienced members now (allegedly) trying to add calendar events
• INTERNAL: Updated HTMX library to version 1.9.12.
• CHANGE: Remove the RI banner from the Members page. [email protected] | Remove or change the "RI" banner at top of members list

June 28, 2024:

• CHANGE: Logging in via Login Link now unbounces, reverifies, and/or confirms accounts. Logging in via "send me a link" should reset several account status flags
• INTERNAL: Downgraded HTMX library back to 1.9.9 because the new version broke back button behavior.

I will be on vacation next week. Responses to email and support will be delayed during that time. The next #changelog will be published on July 12, 2024.

Take care everyone.

Mark

Changes to the site this week:

June 10, 2024:

• CHANGE: The Google map view has been re-enabled when viewing events.

June 11, 2024:

• BUGFIX: The chat Plus and Camera buttons had the wrong color in dark mode.
• BUGFIX: Going to a specific chat from the top level Chats menu was broken.
• CHANGE: In the app, on a narrow screen, when the keyboard is up, hide the bottom nav bar.
• CHANGE: When in chat, once the text area has focus, have it keep focus even after a submit.

June 12, 2024:

• BUGFIX: In the App, when clicking a non-external link (ie that goes to https://groups.io), open the link in the app instead of going to the browser.
• BUGFIX: The direct add message displayed on the web site was not exactly the message that was emailed to members.

June 13, 2024:

• BUGFIX: In the App, you could not download the memberlist.csv file. Download member list not working

June 14, 2024:

• CHANGE: Export Events is now Export Calendar. Change Export "Events" to Export "Calendar"
• CHANGE: Formatting tweaks on the group Attachments page. #suggestion Listing the Attachments of Messages
• CHANGE: Change the announcement group bounce message to "This is an announcement group and only moderators can post to it.". Tweak the bounce message when member tries to post to announcement group
• CHANGE: When viewing a banned member, don't display most of the member info page, as it's irrelevant. Misleading "Membership" pages for Banned members
• CHANGE: Only parse calendar invites in messages that are not replies. Many experienced members now (allegedly) trying to add calendar events
• BUGFIX: Fixed markdown previews when adding and viewing events.
• BUGFIX: In some narrow screen sizes, the editor wouldn't show the attachments button.

I will be on vacation next week. Responses to email and support will be delayed during that time. The next #changelog will be published on June 28, 2024.

Take care everyone.

Mark

Changes to the site this week:

June 3, 2024:

• BUGFIX: Fix pagination at the bottom of the Files search result page. Number of files partly obscured by arrow buttons
• BUGFIX: Numerous fixes to formatting on the mobile/app site.

June 4, 2024:

• BUGFIX: On smaller screens, breadcrumbs now scroll horizontally if they can't fit, instead of wrapping to the next line.
• BUGFIX: On smaller screens, in Files, there was extra whitespace to the right of the files table.
• CHANGE: In the Wiki, the navigation buttons have been re-arraigned to better fit mobile devices and reduce clutter.
• BUGFIX: Fixed several issues with embedding URLs in chat messages. Also added OpenGraph meta tags to several pages.

June 5, 2024:

• NEW: New Portuguese translation.
• CHANGE: Updated the other translations.

June 7, 2024:

• BUGFIX: Improved the formatting of the month view of the calendar on mobile so that if a day had more than 3 events, the "+N events" isn't moved into the row below.
• BUGFIX: Fixed some dark mode colors in the calendar.
• INTERNAL: Updated the calendar code to the latest version of FullCalendar.
• CHANGE: In the calendar month view, changed how pop ups are done. To view an event, instead of hovering, you now click the event, to be consistent with how it works on mobile. The displayed event modal is now better formatted.
• CHANGE: Added back the Added By information when viewing an event. [email protected] | Calendar event display
• CHANGE: Changed Account to Settings for consistency with other services.

The next #changelog will be published on June 14, 2024.

Take care everyone.

Mark

Changes to the site this week:

May 29, 2024:

• NEW: Finished work to maintain calendar events based on ICS files sent to groups (mainly updating and canceling events).
• BUGFIX: Don't send Note To Send Attendees to people who reply maybe to event invites. Re: Tentative/Not Sure responses possible on RSVP events with a limit on attendees
• BUGFIX: Fixed issue with RSVP change notifications sometimes being sent with incorrect DKIM signatures.
• BUGFIX: Fixed some network issues when fetching oembed codes in chat.
• BUGFIX: Uploading to the Photos and Files section in the app was not working.

May 30, 2024:

• NEW: When editing a single event within a repeating event, you are now given the option to update This And All Following Events.

The next #changelog will be published on June 7, 2024.

Take care everyone.

Mark

Changes to the site this week:

May 22, 2024:

• BUGFIX: The 'Join Group' button on the logged out group home page did not work for Enterprise groups that had SSO enabled (the Login button did).
• BUGFIX: In some instances, a calendar invite sent to a group was not added to the group's calendar.

May 23, 2024:

• INTERNAL: Refactored the email parsing library to reduce memory usage.

May 24, 2024:

• BUGFIX: Fixed bounce processing logic that would cause some people to not go on Bouncing status when they should.
• INTERNAL: Refactored the email server process to reduce memory usage.

The next #changelog will be published on May 31, 2024.

Take care everyone.

Mark

Changes to the site this week:

May 13, 2024:

• BUGFIX: The Top Of Page icon was overlapping the pagination at the bottom of pages. [email protected] | Return to top
• CHANGE: Changed the Cmd-G shortcut on Macs to Ctrl-G. [email protected] | #bug Severe bug on Mac: Find Next/Previous shortcuts overridden by a custom dialog

May 14, 2024:

• BUGFIX: Sticky wiki pages were not truncated correctly on /topics and /messages pages if they had table elements.

May 15, 2024:

• BUGFIX: Menu badges on mobile weren't being cleared properly.
• CHANGE: Removed the website has been updated dialog and instead automatically reload the page. Also fixed the issue of flash notices not appearing after this. Get rid of those pop-up windows to refresh after a server update

May 17, 2024:

• BUGFIX: Fix double reporting issue when reporting files and other objects. "Report" file to moderators - 2 messages
• INTERNAL: Launched a new topic object caching system to support deep pagination as is typically triggered by search engines.

The next #changelog will be published on May 24, 2024.

Take care everyone.

Mark

Changes to the site this week:

May 6, 2024:

• BUGFIX: On Firefox, using the Month dropdown in the datepicker would sometimes flash and not work. Date picker
• BUGFIX: Selecting a direct add notice was broken. Notice not showing up in direct add
• BUGFIX: The font size selector in the editor had typos causing it to no work properly. One issue and one unfortunate behavior change with the new editor
• CHANGE: Moderators with billing permission who were not the designated payer would not receive billing notifications including: downgrade notifications, failed payment notifications, and paid invoices. They will receive those notifications going forward.

May 8, 2024:

• BUGFIX: When a Outlook user sent a calendar invite to a group, and then modified that event, a duplicate event was created in the group calendar.

May 9, 2024:

• BUGFIX: In some cases, colors and styles were not kept when pasting into the new editor. [email protected] | #bug FONT COLOR COPY/PASTE, font sizes don't match
• CHANGE: Improved formatting tweaks for the group member and edit subscription pages, along with tweaks to radio buttons and checkboxes.

May 10, 2024:

• CHANGE: Augmented the /topics URLs with additional pagination information to reduce the load on the main database.

The next #changelog will be published on May 17, 2024.

Take care everyone.

Mark

Changes to the site this week:

April 27, 2024:

• BUGFIX: Fix pagination after going to a specific message in the expanded messages display. "Next Page" does not work in Ascending Expanded order
• CHANGE: Disabled the new Word HTML filter in the updated editor as it was removing too much style information.

April 28, 2024:

• BUGFIX: Message content within pre tags was not being displayed properly. [email protected] | #bug

April 30, 2024:

• BUGFIX: The chat page would not display correctly on mobile Safari. #bug Chat on iPhone after new enhancements.
• BUGFIX: The sidebar wasn't updating when navigating from a subgroup to the parent group. Possible bug - returning to main group home page

May 1, 2024:

• CHANGE: Swapped the background white color with the base off-white color in light mode to increase the contrast when reading messages.

May 3, 2024:

• NEW: Implemented sitemaps to hopefully improve crawl coverage of the site.

The next #changelog will be published on May 10, 2024.

Take care everyone.

Mark

Changes to the site this week:

April 23, 2024:

• BUGFIX: In some instances, when sending a message to a member via /posttosub using the +owner address, the email would actually be sent from the owner's email address. Re: Messages Marked "Send from Group Owner Address" are Sent as Sender

April 24, 2024:

• CHANGE: I've made a change to the bounce algorithm. Previously if we received no additional bounces for 4 days, we cleared the bounce counts for a user. I've added the additional condition that we must have had at least one successful delivery after the last bounce received, before we clear the bounce counts. This is to address the issues of people not bouncing because they are members of groups that have very little traffic.

April 25, 2024:

• CHANGE: Now, when a pending member leaves a group before their membership is approved, the activity log entry will be 'Pending member N left'.
• CHANGE: Rolled out new user interface changes.

April 26, 2024:

• CHANGE: Miscellaneous fixes/updates of the new interface changes.

The next #changelog will be published on May 3, 2024.

Take care everyone.

Mark

Changes to the site this week:

April 14, 2024:

• CHANGE: We are now re-writing the From line of all emails sent to Gmail hosted accounts. Gmail is starting to enforce DKIM domain alignment, which is forcing us to do this.

April 15, 2024:

• CHANGE: Remove valid email check when banning an email address. Re: Email address "info@..." is not valid?

April 16, 2024:

• SYSADMIN: Completed the warm up of the new mail servers and they are fully in production.

April 17, 2024:

• CHANGE: Revamped pagination and added canonical tags to hopefully improve Google crawling of public groups. [email protected] | Revamped pagination

April 18, 2024:

• BUGFIX: Remove any spaces within a base64 part of a message before trying to decode it. There shouldn't be any, but some email is arriving with spaces prepended to each line of base64 data.

April 19, 2024:

• CHANGE: Added an alert box announcing the new user interface switchover next week.

The next #changelog will be published on April 26, 2024.

Take care everyone.

Mark

Changes to the site this week:

April 1, 2024:

• CHANGE: Email unsubscribe requests must now be properly DKIM signed.
• CHANGE: We now include a 'Resent-From' header whenever we include a 'Resent-Date' header, as required by RFC 5322.

April 2, 2024:

• BUGFIX: The Organizer field was sometimes different for individual events vs the repeat event declaration in an ICS file, which caused parsing errors for some CalDAV servers, and was against the spec.

April 5, 2024:

• NEW: We now handle Outlook/Google Calendar RSVPs for repeating events. A bug yet to be fixed is that this can sometimes generate multiple RSVP notification emails.

I am on vacation until Monday, April 14th. Support responses will be delayed during that time.

The next #changelog will be published on April 19, 2024.

Take care everyone.

Mark

Changes to the site this week:

March 25, 2024:

• BUGFIX: We were incorrectly adding a Bounced User log entry when we sent bounce notice messages to bouncing members.

March 27, 2024:

• CHANGE: We no longer send any email to 'typo' domains as well as domains that are hosted by known domain parking servers. [email protected] | Wednesday update

March 29, 2024:

• INTERNAL: Optimized the bounce system.

The next #changelog will be published on April 4, 2024.

Take care everyone.

Mark

Changes to the site this week:

March 20, 2024:

• CHANGE: When a bouncing user visits the website, they are now directed to a special page which lets them change their email address or send a bounce probe email. [email protected] | Members who Bounce/Unbounce indefinitely
• CHANGE: We now always send an email notification to a member when they RSVP to an event, regardless of what the RSVP is. Also, events with a max number of attendees now also have ICS files formatted with METHOD=REQUEST so that members can RSVP directly in Outlook and other calendars. Re: Calendar Event and ICS file query

March 21, 2024:

• CHANGE: When a user who is going through the reverification process visits the site, they are now redirected to a special page which lets them change their email address or send a new reverification email. Simply visiting the website no longer automatically reverifies someone.
• CHANGE: The reverification email now includes a link to a new web page, which when visited, reverifies the user. Simply responding to the reverification email will also still reverify the user.

March 22, 2024:

• CHANGE: We now log when a user is set to the red Bounced state, and we now log all instances when a user is set to the blue Bouncing state. [email protected] | Members who Bounce/Unbounce indefinitely

The next #changelog will be published on March 29, 2024.

Take care everyone.

Mark

Changes to the site this week:

March 11, 2024:

• CHANGE: Reverted the change where we re-write the Date header of emails. Instead, we now add a Resent-Date header.
• MISC: Began new reverification process for some groups confirmed to have spam trap addresses.

March 12, 2024:

• SYSADMIN: Started sending email through a fourth email server.

March 13, 2024:

• BUGFIX: In some cases we were improperly encoding the 'To' header line for group & sender replies, leading to bounces from GMX associated servers.

March 14, 2024:

• BUGFIX: We weren't saving BCC Me checks properly in drafts. Sending a private reply with "BCC Me" fails if the reply is brought up from Drafts
• SYSADMIN: Upgrade our load balancer instances because they were running out of memory.

March 15, 2024:

• BUGFIX: Include descriptions in #file-notice messages when adding new links.
• SYSADMIN: Started sending email through remaining new servers.

I will be on vacation Monday and Tuesday, March 18-19th. The next #changelog will be published on March 22, 2024.

Take care everyone.

Mark