Groups.io: Changelog

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October 9, 2026

Design & Accessibility

CHANGE: Tooltips now stay open while you move the pointer onto them, and you can close them with the Escape key. The abbreviated badges on Your Groups and in your feed (P, M, NP, NMM, and others) now have their full meaning available to screen readers.
CHANGE: Error messages that pop up at the top of the page now stay until you close them, instead of disappearing after a couple of seconds. Other notices stay for 10 seconds and don't disappear while you're pointing at them or have moved to them with the keyboard. A failed image upload now shows a message that stays until you close it.
CHANGE: On phones, the full title of a topic, chat, or wiki page is now shown on the page itself, since the header can only fit part of it. On very short screens, such as when the browser is zoomed in a long way, the header and bottom bar scroll with the page instead of covering most of it. Pages no longer scroll sideways on narrow screens.
CHANGE: Pages now tell browsers and screen readers which language they're in, matching the language you've chosen for the site, so screen readers use the right pronunciation.

Public Pages & Help

BUGFIX: In the online help center manuals, the expandable sections (headings you click to show more text) looked like links but didn't open when clicked, and glossary terms didn't show their definitions when clicked. Both work again. https://beta.groups.io/g/docs/message/618

Mobile App

BUGFIX: In version 5.0 of the iPhone and iPad app, tapping a file in the Files section, or an attachment or photo download, always brought up the share sheet asking which app to open it with, instead of showing the file. PDFs, images, Office and iWork documents, text files, and common audio and video files now open right away in the app's viewer again. Other kinds of files still bring up the share sheet so you can choose an app that can open them.

Site-wide

BUGFIX: When you weren't logged in, clicking "I Agree" on the cookie notice didn't remember your choice, so the notice came back on every page. Your choice is now saved and the notice stays dismissed.

October 2, 2026

Highlights

A passkey now counts as two-factor authentication, satisfying a group's requirement and being asked for at login when it is your only second factor.
Messages sent from Proton Mail and iCloud are no longer bounced or delivered with a block of raw encoded text.
Downloads of large files from a group's Files section no longer fail partway through on slow connections, and interrupted downloads can be resumed.
Creating a group's first subgroup now takes you to the new subgroup, and the sidebar works after renaming a group or subgroup.
In dark mode, the plain text and Markdown message editors are readable again, and saved reply drafts reopen with their text.

Messages & Topics

BUGFIX: If you were set to show 50 or 100 items per page and edited a topic's properties from the second or later page of Topics, clicking Update returned you to Topics showing only 20 topics per page, and paging kept using 20 until you left Topics. Your per-page setting is now kept. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/41297
BUGFIX: On the Edit Topic Properties page, Cancel always took you to the topic, even if you had come from the Topics list or search results. Update from a topic's own page took you to the first page of Topics instead of back to the topic. Both Cancel and Update now return you to where you came from. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/41297

Editor & Drafts

BUGFIX: In dark mode, the plain text and Markdown message editors showed dark text on a dark background, making it very hard to see what you were typing. Typed text is now shown in a light color.
BUGFIX: When composing in plain text or Markdown with a signature turned on, reopening a saved reply draft showed only your signature instead of the draft, and the next autosave replaced the draft with just the signature. Reopened reply drafts now show their saved text. This affected all groups set to plain text only.
BUGFIX: Image descriptions (alt text) containing common punctuation, such as a colon, question mark, ampersand, curly quotation marks, or a curly apostrophe, were silently removed from images in wiki pages and messages, and saving the page again lost them for good. Screen readers then had nothing to read for those images. Descriptions with punctuation are now kept. Descriptions that were already removed can't be restored and need to be entered again.
BUGFIX: The Bcc: Me and Bcc: All Moderators checkboxes on the Send Message page, and the BCC Me checkbox when replying to the sender or the moderators of a topic, still had the old look. They now match the site's other checkboxes, and clicking the Bcc: Me and Bcc: All Moderators labels on the Send Message page now toggles their checkboxes. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/41339

Hashtags

BUGFIX: The Muted Hashtags and Followed Hashtags pages showed a "Your Groups" link in their breadcrumb that actually took you to your Feed. On phones, it was the only part of the breadcrumb shown. Those pages now show just their own name, like the other pages in your account's sidebar. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/41319
CHANGE: The Mute Hashtag, Follow Hashtag, and Unmute Hashtag pages now have a breadcrumb that links back to your Muted Hashtags or Followed Hashtags list.

Email & Delivery

BUGFIX: Messages sent to a group from Proton Mail, and occasionally from other email providers, were sometimes bounced with "Invalid request, no reverse DNS", even though the sending server was set up correctly. It happened when a lookup of the sending server's name briefly failed on our end. A brief lookup failure now asks the sending server to try again later instead of bouncing the message, and we check with a second, independent DNS service before treating the lookup as failed.
BUGFIX: Since September 30, some messages sent to a group from iCloud (me.com, icloud.com, mac.com) were delivered with a large block of raw, encoded text instead of the formatted message, and failed DKIM checks at Gmail. iCloud began adding stray characters to one of its message headers, and we passed them on to members, which made Gmail and other email programs think the headers ended early. We now remove those characters when a message arrives, so iCloud messages display normally.
BUGFIX: When a member's Yahoo Mail account automatically forwarded to another address that rejected the message, the bounce recorded for the member just said "5.0.0", with no hint of the real cause. Yahoo had changed the format of these forwarding failure notices. The bounce now shows the forwarding address and the reason it was rejected, for example that the account doesn't exist, so members and moderators can tell that the problem is the forward and not the member's Yahoo address.
BUGFIX: When a member with a group signature replied by email from a program that doesn't mark the earlier message as a quote, such as Samsung Email or Outlook, their signature was hidden on the website in the collapsed "..." along with the earlier message, because the signature was added at the very end, after the earlier message. When a reply is written above the earlier message, the signature is now added between the reply and the earlier message, where email programs put signatures. A signature that still ends up after the earlier message is now recognized and shown. Messages already posted are unchanged. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/41335

Members

API BUGFIX: Calling /updatemember without the member_labels parameter removed all of the member's labels. The labels are now left unchanged when member_labels is omitted; to remove all labels, send a single empty member_labels value.

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