Updates to the Groups.io service.
June 10, 2025
- CHANGE: Increase the max file size limit for Files uploads to 2GB.
June 9, 2025
- CHANGE: Changed minimum supported versions of Chrome to 80, Firefox to 60, and Safari to 15. Also blocking Internet Explorer.
June 4, 2025
- NEW: Added Hourly Email Latency graph to https://status.groups.io
May 30, 2025
- CHANGE: Remove the Promote tab from the Group sidebar for Invite Only groups. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/39328
May 29, 2025
- CHANGE: Don't permit exclamation points in email addresses. They're technically allowed, but in practice they indicate spammers only.
- CHANGE: For SMTP TLS negotiations, only use TLS version 1.2 as 1.3 is not yet widely supported. This was causing email to some servers to bounce. I have pro-actively looked for affected domains and unbounced affected accounts.
- NEW: Added hourly web uptime and latency statistics to the Groups.io status page (https://status.groups.io) and changed the formatting to include uptime stats.
May 23, 2025
- BUGFIX: Fixed several minor spacing issues in activity log entries.
- NEW: Added a new `Invite Only` mode for groups, which when toggled, prevents people from applying or joining the group. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/39305
- INTERNAL: We are now storing data needed for our upcoming group analytics dashboard.
- DOCS: Updates from Nina. https://groups.io/helpcenter/single/revisionhistory
May 20, 2025
- BUGFIX: On the /static/pricing page, the link to group sponsorship information was outdated. (Thanks Nina!)
May 19, 2025
- BUGFIX: The Help Center mistakenly required being logged in to access.
- CHANGE: Added permalinks to individual Help Center FAQ entries.
May 16, 2025
- CHANGE: The Member and Owner FAQs in the Help Center now show all entries and answers on one page, instead of having to click through each FAQ.
- CHANGE: Increased the maximum email size for premium and enterprise groups to 200MB from 100MB.
May 15, 2025
- NEW: Apple Pay and Google Pay are now supported for paying group hosting fees.
- CHANGE: When sponsoring a group, you now have the option of using the card on file instead of always having to re-enter it.
- BUGFIX: If a group has an overdue invoice but has enough sponsorship reserves to pay it, the invoice can be paid without a valid credit card needed.
- CHANGE: Removed the i=1 parameter when starting a new Ask chat. https://beta.groups.io/g/ai/message/85
May 9, 2025
- NEW: We will now send out emails to group owners when their free groups approach 100 members, alerting them to this and the fact that free groups are capped at 100 members.
- CHANGE: Updated the Move button icon on the group photo page to match the move icon in the Files section.
- DOCS: Updates from Nina. https://groups.io/helpcenter/single/revisionhistory
- CHANGE: Merged in French language translation fixes. Thank you seranpion for your help!
May 8, 2025
- CHANGE: Changed some of the canonical links on message pages and added DiscussionForumPosting structured data headers to improve SEO and archive appearance on search engine result pages.
May 7, 2025
- CHANGE: The trial length for new premium group trials is now 30 days. This change does not apply to existing premium trial groups.
- NEW: New intergration, Bluesky Cross-Posting. You can automatically share the **first message in a new topic** to your linked Bluesky account - **if it includes one of your selected hashtags**. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/39296
May 2, 2025
- CHANGE: Change the Files section move icon. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/39275
- BUGFIX: In some instances, for groups with subgroups, the welcome message when joining a subgroup would contain a broken link. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/39279
- BUGFIX: On the /billing page, the Chat Photo storage amounts were incorrect. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/39280
- CHANGE: On the /billing page, changed how we display storage amounts. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/39281
- DOCS: Updates from Nina. https://groups.io/helpcenter/single/revisionhistory
- NEW: The /gethashtags API endpoint now supports 'topic_count' as a sort field. https://beta.groups.io/g/api/message/420
- CHANGE: Sync'ed up translation files with latest changes on the site.
April 25, 2025
- NEW: Display the subject line for 'Rejected Message - Banned domain' activity log entries. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/39260
- CHANGE: Links to attachments in digests now no longer require being logged in to click on for the first 5 days, same as when we pull attachments out of individual emails.
- CHANGE: Merged in French language translation fixes. Thank you seranpion for your help!
- DOCS: Updated docs from Nina.
April 24, 2025
- NEW: Free groups that have not previously done the free premium trial can now do so by going to the Upgrade page under Admin -> Preferences.
April 23, 2025
- SYSADMIN: We are now blocking AS 45899, VNPT Corp, because their crawlers were abusing the system.
- SYSADMIN: We are now blocking AS 132203, another TENCENT block, because their crawlers were abusing the system.
April 22, 2025
- NEW: We now support Apple Pay and Google Pay for group sponsorship payments.
April 19, 2025
- NEW: Added an RSS feed to the Changelog page.
- BUGFIX: In some cases, after editing a message that contains an inline image, a broken image would show up in the archives.
April 18, 2025
- CHANGE: Improved the subject line and text of the bounce notification emails.