Groups.io: Changelog

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November 6, 2020

  • BUGFIX: If there's only one photo album, disable the Move button when viewing a photo.
  • NEW: If you send a message with just the word 'unsubscribe' and nothing else to a group, we now treat it as an unsubscribe request, like sending a message to +unsubscribe (still requires confirmation).
  • BUGFIX: When following a topic, we send out all existing messages. We were not adding the group subject tag to the messages.
  • NEW: On the /topic and /message pages, there now is a Follow/Unfollow/Mute/Unmute button.
  • CHANGE: Changed 'Reason' column title in the Past Members page to 'History'.

October 31, 2020

  • DOCS: Updates from Nina
  • INTERNAL: Improvements to internal admin tools and dashboards
  • INTERNAL: The second mail server is now processing half of all outbound email.

October 23, 2020

  • BUGFIX: In the /topic view, with infinite scroll, some messages would be displayed without the message footer.
  • BUGFIX: Trial premium groups weren't being downgraded to free after the trial was over.
  • SYSADMIN: Added two additional web servers to deal with increased load.
  • CHANGE: Changed what we consider a valid email address to make it more strict and to reject extended unicode characters.

October 16, 2020

  • NEW: In the Billing tab, for premium groups, show which features would be enabled/disabled if you downgraded to the free plan.
  • CHANGE: Formatting changes to the Past Members page.
  • BUGFIX: In a premium group, clicking on a rejected member activity log item will now bring you to the /pastmember page.
  • CHANGE: Work to make DNS resolution when sending out email more robust, including adding more DNS resolver caches and changing some of the logic in the code.

October 9, 2020

  • SYSADMIN: More work to bring up the second email server; working to get Microsoft to stop rate-limiting it.
  • DOCS: Updates to the Owners Manual from Nina.
  • INTERNAL: Switched the internal dashboards/admin system to a different domain to fix cookie issues I was having.
  • INTERNAL: More work on converting templates to quicktemplate.