Updates to the Groups.io service.
December 16, 2022
- INTERNAL: Pushed to production the first part of a re-write of how we handle and store email delivery history. When complete, the new system will store multiple success delivery notices as well as make accessing all email delivery history easier for typical use cases.
- NEW: Improved the Email Delivery History pages, including additional subject lines.
- BUGFIX: When viewing the Email Delivery History pages, sometimes the most recent unsuccessful attempt was not displayed.
December 15, 2022
- INTERNAL: Disabled the use of (completely unnecessary) savepoints on our read-only database replicas. This will hopefully address an intermittent database query stall issue I've been seeing since the very beginning of the site. Fingers crossed.
December 13, 2022
- INTERNAL: Multiple improvements to the development environment.
December 9, 2022
- BUGFIX: When editing a pending message in a group that is set to `plain text only` messages, the edited message would be stripped of line breaks. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/topic/editing_subscribers_pending/95472315?p=,,,100,0,0,0::recentpostdate/sticky,,,100,2,0,95472315,previd%3D9223372036854775807,nextid%3D1664059939668689618&previd=9223372036854775807&nextid=1664059939668689618
- CHANGE: Respect newlines in album, photo, directory, and file descriptions. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/topic/vanishing_carriage_returns_in/95156139?p=,,,100,0,0,0::recentpostdate/sticky,,,100,2,0,95156139,previd%3D9223372036854775807,nextid%3D1664059939668689618&previd=9223372036854775807&nextid=1664059939668689618
- CHANGE: Improved formatting on mobile of the /activity page. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/topic/95142025#34040
December 8, 2022
- BUGFIX: When editing a repeating event, the color was not preserved. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/topic/event_color_changes_in/95298913?p=,,,100,0,0,0::recentpostdate/sticky,,,100,2,0,95298913,previd%3D9223372036854775807,nextid%3D1664059939668689618&previd=9223372036854775807&nextid=1664059939668689618
- CHANGE: Send the two-week advanced billing notice only to moderators that have billing permission, not just the person set to pay the invoice.[Discussion](https://beta.groups.io/g/main/topic/site_updates/94820355?p=,,,100,0,0,0::recentpostdate/sticky,,,100,2,0,94820355,previd%3D9223372036854775807,nextid%3D1663874253397129559&previd=9223372036854775807&nextid=1663874253397129559)
December 6, 2022
- DOCS: Updates from Nina. [Owners Manual Revision History](https://groups.io/helpcenter/ownersmanual/1/revision-history), [Members Manual Revision History](https://groups.io/helpcenter/membersmanual/1/revision-history), [Getting Started Revision History](https://groups.io/helpcenter/gettingstarted/1/revision-history), [Glossary History](https://groups.io/helpcenter/glossary/1/revision-history).
November 29, 2022
- BUGFIX: The /activity page wasn't viewable from mobile. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/topic/site_updates/95142025?p=,,,100,0,0,0::recentpostdate/sticky,,,100,2,0,95142025,previd%3D9223372036854775807,nextid%3D1663088787261811396&previd=9223372036854775807&nextid=1663088787261811396
November 19, 2022
- NEW: You can now specify that the weekly event summary email be sent on a day other than Friday. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/topic/new_premium_group_feature/31929871?p=,,,100,0,0,0::recentpostdate/sticky,,,100,2,0,31929871,previd%3D9223372036854775807,nextid%3D1661552398239532412&previd=9223372036854775807&nextid=1661552398239532412
- NEW: When moving files or folders in the Files section, the dialog now presents a collapsable tree. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/33997
- API: New `/addfiles`, `/addfilelink`, and `/deletefile` endpoints.
- BUGFIX: Uploading a folder to the Files section using Chrome now preserves the directory structure.
November 17, 2022
- INTERNAL: More internal optimizations to speed up the website.
November 16, 2022
- NEW: Released the `/activity` page to all users.
November 15, 2022
- INTERNAL: More internal optimizations to speed up the website.
November 11, 2022
- INTERNAL: Continued optimization of code. Web pages now load on average 60% faster than they did at the beginning of the week.
- DOCS: Updates from Nina. [Owners Manual Revision History](https://groups.io/helpcenter/ownersmanual/1/revision-history), [Members Manual Revision History](https://groups.io/helpcenter/membersmanual/1/revision-history), [Glossary History](https://groups.io/helpcenter/glossary/1/revision-history).
- INTERNAL: Roll out new pending message attachment storage system to all groups.
November 9, 2022
- INTERNAL: Roll out new pending message attachment storage system to a limited number of groups for testing.
- INTERNAL: Optimize some low level database code.
November 8, 2022
- BUGFIX: For extra member data, if a parent group had a date field and a subgroup also had a date field, the date picker would not be shown. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/topic/94465300?p=%2C%2C%2C50%2C0%2C0%2C0%3A%3Arecentpostdate%2C%2C%2C50%2C2%2C0%2C0%2Cprevid%253D1667927448122369873%2Cnextid%253D1667894403938889947&previd=1667927448122369873&nextid=1667894403938889947&allview=1
November 7, 2022
- CHANGE: For premium groups, the max size for files uploaded to the Files section has been increased to 2GB, and the max size of photos uploaded to the Photos section is now 1GB.
- BUGFIX: Uploading large files and photos should now work. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/topic/bug_unable_to_upload_large/93988285?p=,,,50,0,0,0::recentpostdate/sticky,,,50,2,0,93988285,previd%3D9223372036854775807,nextid%3D1665177659853403587&previd=9223372036854775807&nextid=1665177659853403587
- BUGFIX: The hashtags.json file in exported group data was not formatted properly. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/topic/hashtags_json_file/94866920?p=,,,50,0,0,0::recentpostdate/sticky,,,50,2,0,94866920,previd%3D9223372036854775807,nextid%3D1665177659853403587&previd=9223372036854775807&nextid=1665177659853403587
November 4, 2022
- NEW: Subgroups can now have extra member data. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/topic/extra_member_data_in/94465300?p=,,,50,0,0,0::recentpostdate/sticky,,,50,2,0,94465300,previd%3D9223372036854775807,nextid%3D1664662213003202909&previd=9223372036854775807&nextid=1664662213003202909
- NEW: User activity page. Currently only enabled for members of the beta group, for testing. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/topic/user_activity_page/94809277?p=,,,50,0,0,0::recentpostdate/sticky,,,50,2,0,94809277,previd%3D9223372036854775807,nextid%3D1664661264993952379&previd=9223372036854775807&nextid=1664661264993952379
- BUGFIX: The date format for #cal-notice and #cal-reminder notices was wrong. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/topic/standardise_date_formats_in/94804210?p=,,,50,0,0,0::recentpostdate/sticky,,,50,2,0,94804210,previd%3D9223372036854775807,nextid%3D1664661139560145819&previd=9223372036854775807&nextid=1664661139560145819
October 31, 2022
- CHANGE: Send the two-week advanced billing notice to all moderators, not just the person set to pay the invoice. Also, ensure that all billing notices get sent to the person set to pay the invoices, even if that person is no longer a moderator of the group.
October 28, 2022
- CHANGE: Allow viewing of invoices from the `/billing` page.
- BUGFIX: Switching direct add messages was broken. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/topic/bug_custom_message/94552312?p=,,,50,0,0,0::recentpostdate/sticky,,,50,2,0,94552312,previd%3D9223372036854775807,nextid%3D1664288649235276321&previd=9223372036854775807&nextid=1664288649235276321
October 27, 2022
- BUGFIX: The `[Map]` links on database address fields were sometimes not clickable.
October 26, 2022
- CHANGE: `Message History` -> `Archived Messages`. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/topic/keep_homepage_message_history/94583649?p=,,,50,0,0,0::recentpostdate/sticky,,,50,2,0,94583649,previd%3D9223372036854775807,nextid%3D1664234394902178899&previd=9223372036854775807&nextid=1664234394902178899