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Hi all,

These are the change logs for the last three weeks:



(guess I've been derelict in this task)

Feel free to reply to this topic if you'd like to comment on the
changes. Or better yet, if you expect a lot of discussion start a new
topic (or rejoin an existing one) about a specific change.

NEW: When [email protected] receives an invite to join a Yahoo Group,
we automatically send back an acknowledgement that we received the
invite.
CHANGE: Changed the Yahoo crawling code to retry all fetches of
messages, files and photos, and to report errors in group transfers.

These were both in response to the problems Yahoo Groups were having. Sending back a prompt acknowledgment won't stop people from trying again when they get the (erroneous) error message on the Invite page, but it may keep them from coming back to it and trying some more later. Anyway, something to tell people when they ask about what to do when Invite "fails".

NEW: Fig Leaf group setting to disable fig leafing.

This one has been long awaited by some group managers. I'm not sure if it makes sense in a group with unrestricted membership (such as GMF), but where membership is carefully guarded the risk is minimal.

("Fig leaf" refers to masking the domain name (the part to the right of the @ sign) of email addresses when message bodies are displayed in the group's Messages section. The original purpose was to combat spammers who might join a group simply to collect email addresses from its archived messages.)

CHANGE: Improved information display after sending a login link;
contains info about the subject line and sender.

Thanks to all of you who participated in the threads on beta, helping Mark improve the guidance given to new Groups.io users

CHANGE: Smarter about when to make a member clickable in the Members
page based on moderator privileges.
CHANGE: Added text to moderator privileges part of member page,
explaining more of what access is granted with each one.

I and some others here noticed some anomalies in how the settings interacted with the members list. I need to go back and try them again to see the improvements, and see if any cases were missed.

CHANGE: Added anchors to the FAQs on the Pricing page.

Now it is easy to cite particular parts of the page, when people ask "but what about ...". Same as the Help page - link icons appear when you hover near a section heading. Copy that link and it will take people to that section.

NEW: Automatically strip out common email sigs like "Sent from my
iPhone".

Yay! He's long had a list of ads to strip, it makes sense to do that for sigs like this, which are essentially ads. I've noticed a few ads for a certain antivirus vendor sneak through into pending messages, I'll have to cite one of those for Mark.

And to anyone using a software product that drops ads into your outbound email messages, please check and see if there's a control that will let you turn that off. Your fellow list members (and moderators) will appreciate it.

NEW: Added J's Member Notices help text to the help section.
NEW: New Muting and Following section of help from J.

Thank-you J_Catlady! Your work improving the official help page will help a lot of people.

BUGFIX: Don't HTML Escape the email subject used for mailto replies in
full digests, because it was causing html escaped entities to show
up inappropriately.

Oh my. I've been known to heap towering piles of scorn onto Yahoo Groups' programmers for not being able to keep straight when plain text is plain text. But I will admit this is a subtle case. ;-)


Comments about these others are also welcome:

Changed 'All Messages' to 'Individual Messages' Email Delivery option.
CHANGE: Don't set a user's name from email if the subscription has a
name already set.
CHANGE: In the direct add page for a group with subgroups, sort the
subgroups alphabetically.
BUGFIX: Fix for brackets in subject lines screwing up full digests and
summaries.
BUGFIX: If 2 factor is enabled, do not allow the user to delete their
password.
CHANGE: Don't strip CC headers if present in the original message.
INTERNAL: Centralized all logs, on a big disk, to be able to reference
more than a day's worth.
CHANGE: When viewing a table, you can now click anywhere on a row to
bring up the row itself.
CHANGE: Prevent known bots from submitting an email a login link
request.
INTERNAL: Sped up the overall topics view.
BUGFIX: When creating a repeating event with an RSVP, the RSVP note
was not included in the message sent to the group.
INTERNAL: Changed the database queries to make jumping to a specific
month in the archives more efficient.
BUGFIX: Fixed a permissions problem that would sometimes not allow
someone to edit their own row in a table.
BUGFIX: Fix issue that would sometimes cause the Downgrade Group
button to not do anything.
CHANGE: Reformatted the login page, changed some wording to hopefully

make it easier to understand.

INTERNAL: Updated the publicsuffix package for parsing domains when
figuring out DMARC.
CHANGE: Changed "email group" to "group" in direct add/invite
/subgroupdirect add emails.
BUGFIX: Hopefully fix deadlock issue when multiple simultaneous clicks
on a mute thread link.
CHANGE: When migrating a group to an enterprise group, change any
default welcome messages to reflect the new domain.
NEW: Can disable converting +1 emails to likes on a per-enterprise
group basis (some enterprise groups don't want this feature).
INTERNAL: Support for dns-01 authentication scheme with Let's Encrypt
when fetching new certs, because tls-01 has gone away.
NEW: New subgroup privacy option: unlisted, public archives.
CHANGE: We now support more Facebook pages, ones that have their
Facebook ID appended to the end of their name.
BUGFIX: Database table searches could return results from other tables
in the same group.
BUGFIX: Fixed a bug in the code that looks for inline attachments in
HTML parts that would result in a broken MIME part.
BUGFIX: After editing an event, return to the same month on the
calendar.
BUGFIX: Fixed updating a single event to a repeating event and
converting a repeating event to a single event.
BUGFIX: Fixed privacy setting options for subgroups on the settings
page.
INTERNAL: Upgraded Go compiler to latest version.
BUGFIX: Changed repeating parts of a repeating event were not saved.
CHANGE: Change 'Send Invite To Group' to default to checked, 'Send
Notice to Group' default to unchecked when created a new event.
CHANGE: For repeating events with RSVPs, the link from the #cal-invite
page takes you to a view event page that lets you select which
instance to RSVP to.
CHANGE: Direct adds now contain a link to the normal /leave page
instead of a special /directunsub page, for more consistency and to
prevent spam filters from unsubscribing someone accidentally.
CHANGE: Text clarification in the confirmation email and when joining
a group for the first time. Also, you can now set your password
directly in the welcome screen from the confirmation email.
BUGFIX: For polls with answers that contained quotes, when editing the
poll, the answers were chopped off.
BUGFIX: When viewing profiles groups with a subdomain in the Accounts
view, the profile photo was sometimes broken.
NEW: Enterprise groups can use their Google Analytics code.
CHANGE: Viewing poll responses in the 'Answer' mode, we no longer page
because that gave incorrect results. Also display total responders
instead of responses, and we now display percentages for each
answer.
CHANGE: Temporarily removed jump points on the overall Topics view
because my algorithm was completely wrong and did not work.
CHANGE: Added Help link to top navbar.
CHANGE: Tweaked limits of email sending server to fix delayed email
delivery.

Please call out any you find significant.

Shal



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Since Mark does updates every week will there ever be a time when he does not have to update? Or are updates a never ending thing?

Don

Never ending.

Don,

Or are updates a never ending thing?

There's an old saying in computer science to the effect that the only complete and error-free program is one that nobody uses.

The observation is that any software that is in regular use ends up being used for things the author never anticipated - and so unexpected behaviors ("bug reports") and new requirements ("feature requests") are endlessly generated. I wish I could dig up the source on that one.

Then there's this gem:

"There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one
works."
Alan Perlis, "Epigrams on Programming"

Back in the late seventies I took a class on programming in APL from Dr. Perlis. The quote is very much apt of his humor.

Shal


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Shal,

That's pretty funny stuff...lol

Don

Shal,
In DON we tried to devise fool-proof (or sailor-proof) plan, but in our management systems we found that
the only systems that had problems were those run by the computer system experts...

KEN

"It has always seemed strange to me," said Doc. "The things we admire in
men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling
are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest,
sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest are
the traits of success." STEINBECK - CANNERY ROW

It was great when CCs were stripped. I hate that competitors' groups are "advertised". ?

Linda