Changes to the site this week:
June 23, 2022:
- NEW: If a member has a moderator note, display an icon in the
/members page.
- BUGFIX: Clicking the
Edit button on the Pending Messages page with a pending message that has been claimed by another moderator resulted in the raw HTML of the message being displayed.
- CHANGE: When setting a subscription to no color in a subgroup, do not inherit the parent group's default color.
- BUGFIX: The activity log for when a moderator in another group changes a member's email address was not properly recording that it was the action of another group.
- CHANGE: The algorithm for determining a member's subgroup color is now as follows: Subgroup default color, member's main color, main group's default color.
June 22, 2022:
- BUGFIX: When splitting a topic, don't allow the first message in the topic to be the split point. This could happen if the topic was being viewed in newest-first order because we were not properly disabling the Split option in the drop down menu.
- BUGFIX: When splitting a topic, don't allow the new topic to be created with an empty subject.
June 21, 2022:
- SYSADMIN: Switched all the web servers from using dnsmasq for DNS resolution to coredns, because of Amazon S3 DNS issues.
I am on vacation next week. The next #changelog will be published on Friday, July 8th.
Take care everyone.
Mark
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Changes to the site this week:
June 17, 2022:
- CHANGE: Include row number in database row change notifications.
- CHANGE: Do not check the
Send Notice To Group checkbox by default for deleting events.
June 14, 2022:
- CHANGE: If a subgroup does not have a default member color set, changing a member's color to no color will instead change it to the parent group's default member color.
June 13, 2022:
- SYSADMIN: Updated the Go compiler.
The next #changelog will be published on Friday, June 24th.
Take care everyone.
Mark
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Changes to the site this week:
June 10, 2022:
- INTERNAL: Reorganized and restructured the web server code and templates to increase the speed of compilation and testing as well as to make future development easier.
June 8, 2022:
- BUGFIX: In some plain text emails, we were not obscuring email addresses in the archives.
June 6, 2022:
- CHANGE: Removed
Owner: from the display of a photo album to hopefully reduce confusion.
- NEW: Added
Ang?ende: as a reply prefix.
The next #changelog will be published on Friday, June 17th.
Take care everyone.
Mark
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Changes to the site this week:
June 2, 2022:
- CHANGE: Changed the database table search index to allow for partial word matches.
- CHANGE: Changing the color of a subscription to a group will also change the color of any subgroup subscriptions where the subgroup does not have a default color set.
May 31, 2022:
- BUGFIX: Notifications were not generated when deleting database table rows using the
Delete Rows button on the /table page.
- BUGFIX: Log integration messages that are sent to the group and that don't require approval. Also include the name of the integration in the activity log message.
- BUGFIX: Approved message webhooks were not including the raw message.
- BUGFIX: Integration messages that did not require approval were not generating webhooks.
- BUGFIX: Fixed wrong icon in dialog box.
The next #changelog will be published on Friday, June 10th.
Take care everyone.
Mark
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Changes to the site this week:
May 26, 2022:
May 24, 2022:
- BUGFIX: The default color for new table rows should be no color.
- CHANGE: The
Add Table Row and View Table Row pages have been updated with a new format.
- INTERNAL: Refactored much of the database table web UX code.
The next #changelog will be published on Friday, June 3rd.
Take care everyone.
Mark
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Changes to the site this week:
May 20, 2022:
- API: New
default_color parameter for the /updategroup endpoint.
- API: New
color parameter for the /updatemember endpoint.
- NEW: When editing an existing database table, in the
Permissions section is a new Table Owner dropdown for changing the owner of the table.
- NEW: You can assign colors to member subscriptions now. You can also set a default subscription color in the
Default Sub Settings page. Colors are only shown to moderators/owners, and are not shown to members when the Member List Visibility setting is set to Members.
May 18, 2022:
- BUGFIX: Multiple changes to a single event as part of a repeating event were not being reflected properly in ICS files.
- INTERNAL: Code cleanup around how we handle colors internally.
- API: Changed color names to make them more consistent. All color names now start with
color_. This affects color names that used to start with tag_ and column_color_.
May 17, 2022:
- CHANGE: +owner emails now have the subject prefix
[Owner].
The next #changelog will be published on Thursday, May 26th.
Take care everyone.
Mark
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Changes to the site this week:
May 13, 2022:
- DOCS: Updates from Nina. Owners Manual Revision History, Members Manual Revision History.
- CHANGE: When uploading a directory, if one of the files was an image and the group was set to not allow images, we would stop the upload immediately, which would prevent any notifications of already-uploaded files to be sent.
- BUGFIX: When replying to a message, and if you had a signature, exiting the reply and returning to the saved draft would cause the draft to be erased.
- BUGFIX: Don't include your signature when composing a new topic if the
Use Signature For Web Posting checkbox is not checked.
May 12, 2022:
- BUGFIX: Added missing
changed display name activity log entry when a member resets their group profile.
- CHANGE: Drafts are now automatically deleted based on their last updated time, not their created time.
- NEW: Include a colored dot in event notifications.
- BUGFIX: Select text when replying wasn't working for plain text/markdown editors.
May 11, 2022:
- CHANGE: The From name for all group notifications is now
Group Notification, removing the email address of the group, which was causing some confusion with email client contacts.
- BUGFIX: When locking a topic, the locked topic member notice was not being sent to the group.
- BUGFIX: When editing a topic's properties, a
changed the subject activity log entry was always generated, even if the subject hadn't been changed.
- NEW: There is a new selector when creating or editing a folder in the Files section with options for
Any group member can add files to this folder and Only you and the moderators can add files to this folder.
May 10, 2022:
- NEW: New Photos section permissions setting
Members can view and upload photos, but not create albums.
- NEW: New Files section permissions setting
Members can view and upload files, but not create folders.
May 9, 2022:
- BUGFIX:
Send Message to a member now returns to the member page after sending.
- CHANGE: The file name of the downloaded member list .csv file is now the email address of the group with .csv appended.
- INTERNAL: Refactor the editor code in order to fix a couple of edge case bugs and clean up the code.
The next #changelog will be published on Friday, May 20th.
Take care everyone.
Mark
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Changes to the site this week:
May 6, 2022:
- BUGFIX: Several security related fixes to the website from the ongoing security audit.
May 3, 2022:
- CHANGE: Only include ICS files in #cal-invite and #cal-cancelled messages; no longer include them in #cal-reminder and #cal-notice messages.
- BUGFIX: We were not properly initializing the HTML editor when editing an existing message, leading to encoding issues.
- NEW: For groups with enough sponsorship reserves, you can now upgrade them to a paid group without entering a credit card number. Previously, even though the reserves would be used to pay for the upgrade, you needed to enter a credit card number anyways.
- BUGFIX: The Glossary blurb in the Help Center was wrong.
- INTERNAL: Updates to the testing infrastructure.
- NEW: When exporting the members of a group, we now include delivery information and bounces for each member.
May 2, 2022:
- BUGFIX: When a draft is a reply to a message that has been deleted, treat the draft instead as a new message.
The next #changelog will be published on Friday, May 13th.
Take care everyone.
Mark
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Changes to the site this week:
April 28, 2022:
- BUGFIX: April 27, 2022: If
Force HTML Emails and Plain Text Only group settings are both checked, we should take the plain text part of a message and use that to generate an HTML email.
- BUGFIX: When a member is viewing the
Members tab, clicking on a row would lead to a 404 error. It's fixed, but for members who do not have accessible profiles, it will redirect to the group home page.
- CHANGE: Replies from moderators to +owner emails as the +owner now have a From: line that includes the name
Group Moderator.
April 25, 2022:
- CHANGE: Posts sent out via the +owner address now have a From: line that includes the name
Group Moderator.
- BUGFIX: When viewing the
/topics page, the author of topics that were started by +owner posts was not correct.
- BUGFIX: Fixed an issue with the process that sends webhooks, which was causing some webhooks to be queued up but not sent.
The next #changelog will be published on Friday, May 6th.
Take care everyone.
Mark
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Changes to the site this week:
April 22, 2022:
- BUGFIX: Posts and replies from the +owner address were showing the poster's name/photo when viewing the messages on the website.
- CHANGE: Convert
Edited message without sending to the group activity log entries to Edited message activity log entries.
- CHANGE: Improved the check to ensure that a banned domain name is a valid domain name, and no longer allow any *.groups.io domains to be entered as banned domains.
- NEW: The banned domain list is now used to prevent +owner messages, and there is a new activity log message noting this.
April 19, 2022:
- CHANGE: Changed the
Password textbox label in /account to New Password.
- CHANGE: Changed the Content-Type of the member list download page to text/csv.
April 18, 2022:
- CHANGE: For groups with
Normalize HTML set, we now include pre tags in the set of tags that we defang.
The next #changelog will be published on Thursday, April 28th.
Take care everyone.
Mark
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Changes to the site this week:
April 14, 2022:
- INTERNAL: Refactor the message search interface to elasticsearch and add tests.
April 13, 2022:
- DOCS: Update from Nina. FAQ.
April 12, 2022:
- CHANGE: Changed instances of
group member notice in the activity log to member notice for consistency.
- CHANGE: Dialog confirmation wording change.
April 11, 2022:
- API BUGFIX: The
/getevents endpoint was returning events from up to 24 hours before the start time and up to 24 hours past the end time.
- INTERNAL: Upgraded to latest version of the Go compiler.
The next #changelog will be published on Friday, April 22nd.
Take care everyone.
Mark
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Changes to the site this week:
April 8, 2022:
- NEW:
Updated sort by option for photo albums.
- CHANGE: We have always ignored some calendar invite responses (Accepted/Tentative/etc), but not others. We now ignore all of them.
April 7, 2022:
- NEW: Ability to view individual Group Sponsorship and Donation Payment receipts from the Account > Billing page.
- SYSADMIN: Switched the Elasticsearch cluster to use dedicated coordinator nodes, to avoid further issues with frozen data nodes not being removed from queries.
April 6, 2022:
- NEW: When changing your account password, log out of any other session, as a security measure.
- NEW: We no longer allow email addresses from the following free top level domains: ".tk", ".ml", ".ga", ".cf", ".gq"
- CHANGE: Removed the daylight savings time information from the timezone dropdowns.
April 5, 2022:
- NEW: Renamed the activity log
Expired Topic to Expired Hashtag and we are now including the hashtag that expired in the log entry (new log entries only).
- BUGFIX:
Lock On Post did not work if the message was moderated.
- CHANGE: Add additional warnings/information to the account page where you can enable two factor authentication.
April 4, 2022:
- BUGFIX: We were not checking whether a user had permission to close or delete a chat (they must be the creator of the chat or a group moderator).
- INTERNAL BUGFIX: Fixed a race condition that lead to a deadlock in the webhookd process.
March 29, 2022:
- BUGFIX: Directory search was not working.
March 28, 2022:
- BUGFIX: Changing a topic's hashtags would not be reflected correctly in the activity log entry.
The next #changelog will be published on Friday, April 15th.
Take care everyone.
Mark
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Most of my time this week was spent on a proactive security audit. As a result of that exercise, several changes to the site were recommended, which I've implemented. None of these changes affected site functionality. This is a standard, recurring process, and was not instigated by any security incident.
SITE CHANGES:
March 24, 2022:
- CHANGE: When RSVPing to an event, allow up to 20 additional guests to be specified.
- BUGFIX: We weren't properly setting the Cache-Control header for logged in pages.
March 23, 2022:
- APP BUGFIX: On some Android devices, clicking the Admin sidebar tab would generate a network error.
- APP BUGFIX: Use absolute URLs to fix viewing event issue with the app.
I am on vacation next week and responses to emails may be delayed.
The next #changelog will be published on Friday, April 8th.
Take care everyone.
Mark
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Changes to the site this week:
March 18, 2022:
March 17, 2022:
- NEW: The download members function now obeys the user's date format when generating the CSV file.
- BUGFIX:
Upload Folder no longer errors out if there's an empty folder.
March 14, 2022:
- CHANGE: Allow email addresses that consist solely of numbers to be direct added to groups. We generally don't allow those addresses because they are a big source of spam.
The next #changelog will be published on Friday, March 25th.
Take care everyone.
Mark
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Changes to the site this week:
March 11, 2022:
- INTERNAL: Work on improving the internal testing infrastructure of web templates and notifications.
- BUGFIX: Fix paths in notifications and activity log entries for files and folders uploaded via the
Upload Folder function.
- NEW: In the Group Settings page, there is a new text field
Additional Payment Information to specify additional information to be included in group invoices and receipts.
March 9, 2022:
- BUGFIX: The activity log entry for creating subgroups contained an invalid URL.
March 8, 2022:
- NEW: Locked groups now display a banner at the top of every page:
This group is locked. No changes can be made to the group while it is locked.
- BUGFIX: People could still subscribe to free groups with 100 members via email.
- BUGFIX: The emails sent when catching up on a followed topic were missing their attachments.
March 7, 2022:
- NEW: For moderators with edit archive privileges, when posting a new topic or replying to an existing message, there is a new
Lock Topic After Posting checkbox, that will lock the topic after posting the message.
- CHANGE: Reverting an earlier change, locked topics can no longer be posted to, even by moderators.
- NEW: Enterprise groups now have the option to not send any emails when direct adding people to their groups.
The next #changelog will be published on Friday, March 18th.
Take care everyone.
Mark
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Changes to the site this week:
March 4, 2022:
- BUGFIX: Fixed mobile/app formatting issue with
Your Calendar.
- BUGFIX: The
Upload Folder function in the Files section was ignoring directories and was just adding all the included files at the top level.
March 2, 2022:
- NEW: Made group aliases smarter, so that they respect any URL path and redirect to the correct web page, instead of the previous behavior of always redirecting to the group home page.
March 1, 2022:
- CHANGE: On the
/membersubgroups/ page, if all of the group are configured to Force HTML Emails, then do not display the Plain Digest Action option.
- CHANGE: On the
/membersubgroups/ page, if all of the group are configured to Disable No Email, then do not display the No Email Action option.
February 28, 2022:
- BUGFIX: If a message with a hashtag that has been aliased to another hashtag is sent to a group set to remove new hashtags, an erroneous error message was returned stating that a new hashtag had been used.
- BUGFIX: If a message with a new hashtag was sent to a group set to remove new hashtags, any existing hashtags would appear duplicated in the
/topics display.
- NEW: If a message with a new hashtag is sent to a group configured to remove new hashtags, the
Sent message activity log message now appends with a new tag which was removed to the entry.
- CHANGE: Changed activity log message
Message without any tags from sent message (SUBJECT) without any tags to attempted to send message (SUBJECT) without any tags.
- CHANGE: Changed activity log message
Message with a tag only moderators can use from sent message (SUBJECT) with a tag that only moderators can use to attempted to send message (SUBJECT) with a tag that only moderators can use.
- CHANGE: Changed activity log message
Message with a new tag from sent message (SUBJECT) with new tag to attempted to send message (SUBJECT) with new tag.
The next #changelog will be published on Friday, March 11.
Take care everyone.
Mark
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Changes to the site this week:
February 25, 2022:
February 24, 2022:
- APP NEW: Testing a Back arrow in the navbar for the /topic and /message page.
- NEW: Include the biller's name in group invoices if one is set.
February 23, 2022:
- NEW: New
Changed topic's subject activity log entry.
- CHANGE: Re-worded inconsistent
Moderator changed email delivery method activity log entry blurb.
- NEW: File activity log entries and notification messages now include file paths for all actions.
The next #changelog will be published on Friday, March 4th.
Take care everyone.
Mark
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Changes to the site this week:
February 17, 2022:
- APP BUGFIX: On iOS, when the app wasn't running/backgrounded, clicking a link to bring up the app to a specific page, would only bring up the top level page.
- CHANGE: Allow multiple accounts to have the same push notification endpoints.
February 16, 2022:
- APP BUGFIX: Clicking on a calendar event in List view caused the app to display an error message.
February 15, 2022:
- APP BUGFIX: Clicking on a calendar event in the app caused the app to go to your groups home page.
- CHANGE: Removed unused
Changed subscription plan activity log item.
- NEW: Added member
Changed notifications activity log.
- NEW: Added member
Changed signature and moderator Moderator changed signature activity log entries.
February 14, 2022:
- BUGFIX: Email delivery changes made in the /groups page were not being recorded in the Activity log.
- BUGFIX: Moderator changes to a member's message notifications and chat notifications were being recorded as
moderator permissions in the Activity log, instead of notification settings.
I am on vacation until Wednesday, February 23rd. Responses to email will be delayed until I return.
The next #changelog will be published on Friday, February 25th.
Take care everyone.
Mark
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Changes to the site this week:
February 11, 2022:
- CHANGE: A file or folder in the Files section will now have its
Updated date changed only when: changing the description or uploading a new version of the file.
February 10, 2022:
- CHANGE: Changed
Uploaded column header in the Files section to Updated, added the Created column, and made the table scroll horizontally if there isn't enough room.
Internal work:
- Developed a test page in Ionic as part of the process to determine how we should migrate from Bootstrap.
- Implemented an auto-compile/reload development system for our web templates.
- Moved the deployment process from command-line to the admin web dashboard.
The next #changelog will be published on Thursday, February 17th.
Take care everyone.
Mark
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Changes to the site this week:
February 4, 2022:
- NEW: The
Hashtags dropdown on the Topics page now has checkboxes to indicate which hashtags to filter on, and which hashtags to exclude.
February 3, 2022:
February 2, 2022:
- NEW: Added 'R¨¦:' and 'Objet :' to the algorithm that detects subject replies. We also now ignore '[EXT]' and '[EXTERNAL]' in subject line prefixes.
The next #changelog will be published on Friday, February 11th.
Take care everyone.
Mark
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Mark Fletcher