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September 4, 2026

Hashtags

• BUGFIX: The note on the hashtag alias page always omitted one hashtag of the pair: creating an alias showed "Topics tagged with # will be transfered to #tag", and editing one showed "transfered to #". The note now shows both hashtags, updating live as you type the name, and "transferred" is spelled correctly. The breadcrumb when creating a hashtag showed a bare "#"; it now says Create Hashtag. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/41101
• CHANGE: On the Hashtags page, the grey alias text next to a hashtag's name was hard to read on many box colors, and in dark mode the box titles and topic counts were recolored to the page's dark mode text colors, making them hard to read on light box colors. Text inside the boxes now always uses the text color designed for each box color, with the alias slightly dimmed to stay distinct from the name. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/41101

Email & Delivery

• BUGFIX: The links in the Topics list at the top of the HTML digest did nothing for members reading AOL mail in Firefox, because each link's target was marked with only the older name attribute, which that combination ignores. The targets now also carry an id attribute, so the topic links, and the "Top" link at the end of each message, work there. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/41142

Members

• BUGFIX: A member label with no color was drawn with white text on its white background, making the name invisible in the member labels list, the Set Labels dialogs and previews, and on the member page, where the label disappeared entirely against the page. No-color labels now get dark text and an outline, and the no-color choice in the label color picker shows as white with a border instead of a transparency checkerboard. Also fixed the separator line below the member page's labels, which did not extend the full width. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/41097
• CHANGE: The Create Label dialog on the member labels page now shows a live preview of the label as you type, matching the Set Labels dialog on the member page, and the create-label forms across the site now use the same field names and description length. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/41097
• BUGFIX: In the label color pickers, the checkmark showing the selected color was drawn in white, making it invisible on the white No Color swatch: editing a label with no color looked like no color was selected. The checkmark is now dark on that swatch. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/41109
• CHANGE: The Create/Edit Label dialog on the Member Labels page now shows the same "Enter label name" and "Enter label description" placeholder text as the member page's Set Labels dialog. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/41109
• BUGFIX: In the Posting Privileges section of the member page, and for the Full Featured Digest option on the Membership Defaults page, clicking a radio button's caption did nothing; only the button itself could be clicked, even though the cursor suggested otherwise. The same problem affected new-style checkboxes and radio buttons on several other admin pages, including the paid membership tier pages, the subgroup tiers page, the enterprise setup page and the Members page's moderation dialog. Clicking the caption now selects the option everywhere. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/41136
• BUGFIX: On the member page and the Membership Defaults page, the Email Delivery, Message Selection, Owner Email and Monday Start options still rendered as old-style controls next to the new-style ones, and on Membership Defaults their help text sat flush with the button instead of under the caption. They now match the rest of the page. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/41136
• CHANGE: On the Invite, Direct Add, Bulk Remove and File Sync pages, the "Upload a file containing the email addresses..." hint under the Upload Addresses file picker was printed in the regular text color with no final period, unlike the other hints on those pages. It is now styled and punctuated like them. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/41144
• BUGFIX: On the Sent Invitations page, the Actions button was always enabled, so Cancel/Remove Invite and Send Again could be chosen with nothing selected. It is now disabled until at least one invitation is checked, like the action buttons on the other list pages. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/41144
• CHANGE: The "Directly add people to your group..." warning at the top of the Direct Add page was a plain grey box. It is now the same highlighted note used for the anti-spam note on the Settings page. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/41144

Moderation

• CHANGE: When a moderator rejected a member's pending message, the rejection notice sent to the member was not recorded in the member's email delivery history. It is now recorded there as a member notice, the same way rejected subscription notices are, and if the notice bounces, that is recorded in the member's bounce history. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/41060
• BUGFIX: On the pending message pages, the previous/next message arrows next to the "1 of N" count rendered as tiny unstyled chevrons crammed against the count, instead of the normal navigation buttons. They are now proper buttons again, on both the view and edit pages. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/41124
• BUGFIX: The pending message page threw a JavaScript error on every view, which also broke the "Copy Email Address" tooltip in the sender dropdown.
• BUGFIX: On the view pending message page, the sender's profile photo in the sender dropdown was drawn as a rounded square instead of a circle like the sender dropdown on other pages. It is a circle again. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/41130
• BUGFIX: The edit pending message page still showed the old-style sender dropdown: an underlined name next to a large square photo or user icon, unlike the view pending message and New Topic pages. It now uses the same sender chip as those pages. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/41130
• CHANGE: The "All actions" filter on the Activity pages (the group activity log, a member's activity, and your own account's activity page) used its own older look: square corners, a darker border and a small triangle, matching no other dropdown on the site. It now has the same corners, border, height and arrow as the other selectors, in light and dark mode, and the highlighted item in its list uses the site's blue. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/41139

Group Settings

• BUGFIX: On the Membership Defaults page, selecting Following Only did not enable the First Message Also and Auto Follow Replies checkboxes, and did not auto-check Auto Follow Replies, so those defaults could not be set. Also changed a leftover "thread" to "topic" in that page's help text and in the plain-text email footer. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/41099
• BUGFIX: On the group Settings page, the Restricted Membership checkbox (and the Allow Sponsorships checkbox in the General section) rendered as bare, unstyled checkboxes next to their styled neighbors. Both now match the other checkboxes. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/41098