Groups.io: Changelog

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September 25, 2026

Highlights

Adding an event to Google Calendar is now a single button on the event page, and event pages have a Subscribe to group calendar button.
The fourth and final batch of pages, including topics, messages, threads, search and hashtags, has moved to the new design.
Typing a calendar event time such as 4:15 PM is no longer saved as 4:15 AM.
HTML digests are smaller so Gmail no longer cuts them off, and the view all your groups links in digests and the Welcome notice now go to the right place.
Giving a moderator most or all permissions is faster, and the Insert Images dialog in the editor now accepts only images.

Messages & Topics

BUGFIX: When viewing a single message, the previous/next arrows and message number in the upper right sat slightly lower than the Msg # box and the buttons on the left. They now line up. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/41253
BUGFIX: When viewing a single message, the current message number between the previous/next arrows was still shown as plain grey text, unlike the current page in the site's other page navigation, which is now highlighted in blue. The message number is now highlighted the same way, both above and below the message. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/41258
BUGFIX: After reading an expanded topic, pressing the browser's Back button scrolled the page back up through the topic's messages before switching to the Topics list, instead of returning immediately. Back now returns to the list right away, as before. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/41269
BUGFIX: On a topic's page, the Previous Topic and Next Topic buttons looked clickable even when there was no previous or next topic, such as Next Topic on the newest topic, and nothing happened when you clicked them. They are greyed out again when there is nowhere to go. The Add Event button on the calendar, shown to members who can't add events, is greyed out again too.

Editor & Drafts

CHANGE: Pasting a plain-text URL into the online editor automatically made it clickable, which complicated editing the URL before linking it. Restored the previous behavior: pasted plain-text URLs remain editable text until you press Space or Enter, or use Insert Link. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/41228
BUGFIX: The Insert Images dialog in the online editor accepted any type of file, including videos. A video inserted this way could look like a working inline image in Safari, but the posted message contained a broken image that pointed to a link that stopped working once the message was sent. The dialog now accepts only images, and the site no longer inserts non-image files into the body of a message. To share a video, add it as an attachment.
BUGFIX: When replying to a message, the Discard button sat right next to Send. It is back on the right side of the reply form. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/41276
BUGFIX: On the new topic and reply forms, the Send As Special Notice checkbox still had the old style. It now matches the site's other checkboxes. The checkboxes in the Add Hashtags dialog (on the new topic, edit topic, add event, and edit pending message pages) also now have the current style, clicking a hashtag's name now checks it, and the dialog's add button now has a + icon. Your profile photo in the sender menu on the new topic page is round again. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/41276
BUGFIX: In the Insert Images dialog in the online editor, the Add button stayed greyed out after choosing a single image, so it could only be inserted by dragging it into the message. Also, image files without a file extension, such as by DAYS copy, could no longer be chosen or inserted. The Add button is now enabled as soon as you choose an image, and image files are recognized by their contents, whether or not they have an extension. Files that aren't images are still not inserted into the body of a message. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/41288
BUGFIX: Sending an empty reply took you to your home page. You now stay on the topic, with the message "You must include a message."

Hashtags

BUGFIX: Hovering over a hashtag next to a topic's subject, on the topic and message pages, made it lose its color and show dark text, which was unreadable in dark mode. Hashtags keep their color when you hover over them or open their menu. Hashtags in topic lists also no longer change to the link color on hover. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/41276
BUGFIX: On the hashtags page, clicking Gallery View or List View could leave that icon's tooltip stuck on the screen. Tooltips now close when you move to another page, across the site. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/41276
CHANGE: Editing a hashtag, or changing a hashtag's mute or follow settings, from the hashtags page always returned you to the first page of the list. Saving or cancelling now returns you to the page you were on, with the same sort order and view. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/41276
BUGFIX: The Follow Hashtag page was shown without the sidebar, and the Mute Hashtag page collapsed the sidebar's Hashtags menu. Both pages now show the sidebar with the right item selected. The Follow and Mute buttons stay disabled until you enter a hashtag, and the Mute button now shows the mute icon. After muting a hashtag, you were taken to Your Groups or your feed instead of Muted Hashtags; you now return to Muted Hashtags. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/41276

Email & Delivery

CHANGE: Digest and daily summary sender names could be ambiguous when different groups used the same subgroup name. They now use the standard breadcrumb naming, such as Beta | Main Digest and Beta | Main Summary. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/41233
CHANGE: HTML digests were larger than they needed to be. Gmail cuts off any message over about 102KB and shows a "View entire message" link, and a digest could reach that size after only five or six messages. Everything after the cut was missing, including the messages that the Topics in this digest links jump to. Digests are now about 40% smaller, so many more messages fit before Gmail cuts them off. Digests look exactly the same as before.

Members

BUGFIX: Clicking an invite link while logged in failed with a "logged in as another user" error when the invitation had been sent to one of your email aliases rather than your primary address, and logging out did not help because the link logged you straight back in. Invitations sent to any of your aliases can now be accepted from the website.
CHANGE: Giving a moderator most or all permissions meant clicking up to 15 checkboxes one at a time on the member's page. The Moderator Permissions section now has Check All and Uncheck All links, so you can start from everything and remove a few, or start from nothing and add a few. The Moderator Notifications section also has a new Set All To menu that sets every moderator notification (email and web/app, email only, web/app only, or none) at once; you can still adjust individual settings afterward. Nothing is saved until you click Save. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/41181
BUGFIX: On a member's page, changing someone's role from Owner to Moderator hid the Pending Members notification setting even when they still had the Approve Pending Members permission. It now stays visible whenever that permission is checked.

Moderation

BUGFIX: In a group's Activity log, choosing a different category (such as Message Activity or Member Activity) while an action from the All actions menu was selected changed the button label but kept listing the same entries. Choosing a category now shows that category's activity. If the selected action belongs to the new category, the action filter stays; otherwise, the menu resets to All actions. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/40996

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