Updates to the Groups.io service.
January 24, 2025
- BUGFIX: Tweaks to the date picker on the add event page to hopefully make it more compatible with screen readers.
January 22, 2025
- BUGFIX: Activity log entries for sending messages to people waitlisted for an event were empty.
- BUGFIX: Activity log entries for sending messages to everyone who RSVPed for an event were empty.
January 17, 2025
- CHANGE: Link to group in member joining notification.
- BUGFIX: Incorporated French translation language fixes.
January 15, 2025
- CHANGE: Strip reply subject prefix "Odg:".
January 10, 2025
- INTERNAL: Began deleting old not-confirmed user accounts.
January 7, 2025
- BUGFIX: We were erroneously sending out #cal-notice notifications for some calendar events that had been deleted.
January 6, 2025
- CHANGE: Expired pending members will once again be added to the Past Members page.
- BUGFIX: French translation fixes.
- BUGFIX: Fix additional instances of RSVP notification emails being sent without a proper name in the From header.
December 20, 2024
- NEW: Beta version of the new Robohelp-based help center, at /newhelpcenter
- BUGFIX: For RSVP waitlist email notifications, include the sender name.
- CHANGE: Strip out "Sent from Nine" email sigs.
- CHANGE: Move the 'Leave Group' button to the right side of the page.
December 11, 2024
- NEW: The /activity page now shows relevant pending message activities (approved, deleted, rejected, expired)
December 9, 2024
- BUGFIX: We were rotating some videos that didn't actually need to be rotated.
December 4, 2024
- NEW: Download Members now includes any extra member data fields in the .csv export
November 22, 2024
- INTERNAL: Updated several internal dashboards and revamped Influxdb retention policies.
November 20, 2024
- BUGFIX: For enterprise groups, our DMARC re-writing was too aggressive, and we were re-writing the from lines from some moderator notifications, causing issues with approving pending messages via email.
- APP: Released new versions of the iOS and Android apps, with updated libraries but no other changes.
November 19, 2024
- BUGFIX: Fixed an internal issue where we were holding an image cache lock too long which in some cases was causing site slowness.
November 15, 2024
- BUGFIX: Some videos sent as attachments would play upside down on the website.
November 13, 2024
- BUGFIX: The code that detected which requests were from bots was missing some bots, causing extra load on the systems from should-be-banned bots.
- CHANGE: Banned some new bots and IP addresses that were abusing the service.
- CHANGE: When blocking a bot, we now return the Forbidden HTTP status; previously we were returning Not Found.
- APP CHANGE: When entering a chat, there were instances where, even if the app has permission to send notifications, we weren't storing the notification token correctly, and therefore not sending notifications.
November 11, 2024
- SYSADMIN: Doubled the capacity of the web servers to work to address site sluggishness issues.
November 1, 2024
- BUGFIX: In the app, in some instances in dark mode, you could not gain focus of the editor.
- BUGFIX: In the app, in chat, if you uploaded a photo, you were required to type something before the send button would appear.
October 29, 2024
- BUGFIX: When going to a /g/GROUPNAME/join link while logged in, redirect to the group home page.
- BUGFIX: Users that are banned by the system can no longer email +owner addresses.
October 28, 2024
- CHANGE: On narrow screens, reduce the left and right margins.
- CHANGE: Increase the speed of drawer and modal transitions from 0.3s to 0.2s.
- BUGFIX: Fix several instances of broken breadcrumbs.