Groups.io: Changelog

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October 23, 2026

Design & Accessibility
  • CHANGE: Panel titles, such as General on the Settings page or Current Plan on the Billing page, were small grey all-capital labels. They are now larger headings in regular capitalization, so it's easier to see how a page is organized.
  • BUGFIX: In dark mode, progress bars, such as the storage bar on the Billing page, had a nearly white background. It is now dark.
  • BUGFIX: In dark mode, the highlighted item in drop-down menus had low-contrast text. It now uses a darker blue that is easier to read.
  • BUGFIX: In the group sidebar, the highlight on the first and last items of the Subscription, Admin, Membership, Preferences and Subgroups menus had rounded corners, and those menus were drawn as faint white boxes. The highlights are now square and the menus sit flat in the sidebar.
  • BUGFIX: The Home item in the group sidebar wasn't highlighted when you were on the group's home page. It now is.
  • BUGFIX: In dark mode, outlined green, blue and red buttons, such as Will Attend and Will Not Attend on event pages, had dark text that was hard to read against the dark background. They now use lighter text and a brighter outline, and fill in with color when you hover over them.
  • BUGFIX: Outlined orange buttons, such as Not Sure on event pages, had pale orange text that was hard to read on a white background. The text is now dark brown, and hovering shades the button a light orange instead of filling it with orange behind white text.
  • BUGFIX: Green, red, orange and blue buttons that couldn't be clicked were drawn in a different shade than the rest of the site, such as yellow instead of orange. This included your current response on event pages. They now match the site's colors.
  • BUGFIX: Menus that open upward, such as the Actions menu on the Members page, could open with their top items hidden under the bar at the top of the page. This happened when the list was short, for example after filtering the Members page down to one member, and it hid the Remove item. These menus now open downward when there isn't room for them below the top bar. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/41469
Public Pages & Help
  • CHANGE: The Changelog page listed every change by date, with no way to find the ones you were looking for. You can now filter it by area, such as Calendar or Members, and by type (new features, changes, bug fixes or API changes), and search the text of every change. Each week's changes are grouped by area, under the week's highlights. Each page now holds a set number of changes instead of a set number of days, so a busy week no longer makes one very long page, and "Updates to the Groups.io service" is now in the breadcrumb at the top.
  • CHANGE: The weekly #changelog email is now organized by area instead of by day, with the busiest areas first. It starts with the week's highlights and a list of the areas that changed, so you can skip to the ones you care about. Changes to our internal systems are no longer included.
  • CHANGE: In the help center, a glossary definition opened by clicking an underlined term stayed open until you clicked the same term again, so several could pile up on top of each other. Definitions now close when you click anywhere else on the page, press Escape, or open another term. Clicking inside a definition keeps it open so you can select and copy its text. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/41470
  • CHANGE: Changes on the Changelog page from late August to mid October now have areas and weekly highlights too, so they can also be filtered by area.
  • BUGFIX: On the Changelog page, a change that contained a link was cut off where the link began, so the announcement of the Security page read just "A new". Changes with a list of details, such as the event page redesign, showed only their first line. Both are now shown in full, and code, bold text and links in a change are now formatted instead of shown as raw Markdown.
  • BUGFIX: Links in the changelog's RSS feed pointed to a place on the Changelog page that didn't exist. They now go to that day's changes. The feed can now also be filtered the same way as the page, for example to just API changes, and each item's title includes its area. Asking for a page of the feed past its end caused a server error; it now returns an empty feed.
  • BUGFIX: In dark mode, the small arrow under a help center glossary definition was a different shade from the definition box. It now matches.

October 16, 2026

Highlights
  • Ask now reads the discussion around each message it finds, cites its sources with verified numbered links, and fixes several cases where answers were cut short or failed.
  • Members you check on the Members page now stay checked after using an action, sorting, or changing pages, and the same holds on View RSVPs.
  • Moderators can add a moderator note to many members at once, and moderator notes are now hidden from members who are not allowed to read them.
  • HEIC photos can now be uploaded to Photos albums and dropped into the message editor.
  • Replies sent to the moderators from the website now reach them, and replies to a sender keep the Private: prefix and no longer duplicate the subject tag.
Messages & Topics
  • API BUGFIX: Polls created with /newpoll were never attached to a topic: the response had a msg_num of 0, and the poll showed as deleted on the website. /newpoll now posts the poll to the group as a new topic and returns it with its msg_num.
  • API BUGFIX: /updatepoll failed instead of updating the poll. It now updates the poll and edits its topic.
  • API BUGFIX: When posting a poll failed because it was too big, was sent to an announcement-only group by a non-moderator, or had a bad attachment, /newpoll and /updatepoll returned the error followed by the poll in the same response. They now return just the error.
  • API CHANGE: Removed the announce parameter from the /newpoll and /updatepoll documentation. It was never used; polls are always posted to the group as a topic. Callers that still send it are unaffected.

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