Updates to the Groups.io service.
September 16, 2024
- CHANGE: For Enterprise groups, use their custom logo graphic for oembed images.
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".
August 28, 2024
- CHANGE: Now we lazy load images when viewing the archives.
- INTERNAL: Increased our rate limiting settings, which were getting tripped by loading lots of images.
- 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 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 23, 2024
- BUGFIX: Fix modal footer button vertical alignment when buttons wrap on narrow screens.
- CHANGE: When banning a domain that's already been banned, display a notice saying as such.
- BUGFIX: When viewing a Past Member, the breadcrumbs led to broken URLs.
- BUGFIX: Deleted account activity log messages now longer link to the user (which was broken).
- 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.
- CHANGE: A group's handle attachments setting now applies to +owner messages as well.
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 20, 2024
- BUGFIX: Fix styling of Open/Closed chat dropdown.
- BUGFIX: Be smarter about displaying the sender in "Non-member attempted to send message" activity log entries.
August 5, 2024
- BUGFIX: In some instances when a member was viewing a database table, the 'View Row' button would not appear.
August 2, 2024
- BUGFIX: Muted/Followed Hashtags entries weren't included the mobile More menu.
- BUGFIX: Various group rename user interface issues.
- BUGFIX: Don't modify wiki page link targets.
- BUGFIX: Don't send a #cal-invite notice when editing a repeating event unless specifically asked.
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.
July 29, 2024
- CHANGE: Changed Responder to Respondent in several parts of the website for clarity.
July 23, 2024
- BUGFIX: In message search, the Collapse Threads setting would not be used with infinite scroll.
- BUGFIX: Removed the unnecessary timezone display next to the group member Joined date.
- 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.
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 19, 2024
- BUGFIX: In the narrow user Groups page, strip formatting from group descriptions.
July 18, 2024
- CHANGE: Changed Date link colors to be more consistent.
July 17, 2024
- NEW: There is a new Email database column type.
- CHANGE: Database change notification emails now link to the relevant database.
July 16, 2024
- BUGFIX: The font 'Courier New' was misspelled in the editor, leading to possible font mismatch problems.
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.
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.
- 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.
- 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.
July 10, 2024
- NEW: Added email/subject search to the pending messages pages.