Changes to the site this week:
March 25, 2024:
- BUGFIX: We were incorrectly adding a Bounced User log entry when we sent bounce notice messages to bouncing members.
March 27, 2024:
- CHANGE: We no longer send any email to 'typo' domains as well as domains that are hosted by known domain parking servers.
March 29, 2024:
- INTERNAL: Optimized the bounce system.
The next #changelog will be published on April 4, 2024.
Take care everyone.
Mark
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Changes to the site this week:
March 20, 2024:
- CHANGE: When a bouncing user visits the website, they are now directed to a special page which lets them change their email address or send a bounce probe email.
- CHANGE: We now always send an email notification to a member when they RSVP to an event, regardless of what the RSVP is. Also, events with a max number of attendees now also have ICS files formatted with METHOD=REQUEST so that members can RSVP directly in Outlook and other calendars.
March 21, 2024:
- CHANGE: When a user who is going through the reverification process visits the site, they are now redirected to a special page which lets them change their email address or send a new reverification email. Simply visiting the website no longer automatically reverifies someone.
- CHANGE: The reverification email now includes a link to a new web page, which when visited, reverifies the user. Simply responding to the reverification email will also still reverify the user.
March 22, 2024:
- CHANGE: We now log when a user is set to the red Bounced state, and we now log all instances when a user is set to the blue Bouncing state.
The next #changelog will be published on March 29, 2024.
Take care everyone.
Mark
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Changes to the site this week:
March 11, 2024:
- CHANGE: Reverted the change where we re-write the Date header of emails. Instead, we now add a Resent-Date header.
- MISC: Began new reverification process for some groups confirmed to have spam trap addresses.
March 12, 2024:
- SYSADMIN: Started sending email through a fourth email server.
March 13, 2024:
- BUGFIX: In some cases we were improperly encoding the 'To' header line for group & sender replies, leading to bounces from GMX associated servers.
March 14, 2024:
- BUGFIX: We weren't saving BCC Me checks properly in drafts.
- SYSADMIN: Upgrade our load balancer instances because they were running out of memory.
March 15, 2024:
- BUGFIX: Include descriptions in #file-notice messages when adding new links.
- SYSADMIN: Started sending email through remaining new servers.
I will be on vacation Monday and Tuesday, March 18-19th. The next #changelog will be published on March 22, 2024.
Take care everyone.
Mark
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Changes to the site this week:
March 5, 2024:
- CHANGE: Switched DKIM signing to a 2048-bit key, as required by iCloud and others.
- CHANGE: Strip any 'ARC' related headers from incoming group emails.
- BUGFIX: In some instances, when uploading a directory to the Files section, one of the files would be rejected if it was at the top level.
- CHANGE: For group messages, we now change the Date header to be the current date/time when we send the message to members. This is because some mail servers will reject messages with a Date that is too far in the future or past. We do not modify the Date header as it is stored in the archives.
March 6, 2024:
- BUGFIX: Fix permission errors when event organizer tries to modify events.
March 7, 2024:
- BUGFIX: When replying to a message on the website, don't delete the draft until we have successfully sent the message.
- BUGFIX: Don't display the Reply link for messages tagged with a Mods Only Replies tag when viewed by a non-moderator.
March 8, 2024:
- BUGFIX: When a member leaves or is removed from a parent group, causing them to also be removed from any subgroups they are a member of, it was not logged in the activity logs of the subgroups that they had been removed or left.
- BUGFIX: In some instances, it was not possible to edit extra member data fields in a member's group profile page.
The next #changelog will be published on March 15, 2024.
Take care everyone.
Mark
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Changes to the site this week:
February 26, 2024:
- NEW: New calendar events will default to RSVP being checked.
- NEW: New calendar events will by default populate the Organizer Name and Organizer Email fields with the person creating the event.
- NEW: If the Organizer Email matches a different member, that member also has the ability to edit the event.
- CHANGE: The "By" line when viewing an event has been removed.
- CHANGE: For new single events that request an RSVP and that don't have a maximum number of attendees, I've changed the ICS attachment that's sent to the group so that Outlook and Gmail will now display the Yes/Maybe/No buttons, and will display the Organizer, if there is one.
- CHANGE: Clicking the Yes/Maybe/No buttons in Outlook or Gmail will update your response on the 开云体育 website.
February 27, 2024:
- BUGFIX: When editing an existing message with a video attachment, you couldn't check the checkbox to delete the attachment.
- BUGFIX: Fixed screen reader support for the labels on poll results.
February 28, 2024:
- SYSADMIN: Fixed incomplete SPF DNS records for *.groups.io subdomains.
- INTERNAL: Revamped our DNS publishing system.
- CHANGE: We're now publishing 'DMARC p=none' records for all domains and subdomains that we host. This is to comply with recent Gmail changes.
February 29, 2024:
- SYSADMIN: A bunch of security changes to the production fleet.
The next #changelog will be published on March 8, 2024.
Take care everyone.
Mark
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Changes to the site this week:
February 19, 2024:
- BUGFIX: The code to export wiki data had accidentally been reverted to a previous version.
- NEW: Wiki group export data now include a
page field, which contains the HTML of the current version of the wiki page.
- CHANGE: When viewing RSVPs to an event, also include waitlisted people if there are any.
February 20, 2024:
- BUGFIX: In .ics files, for cancelled events, we had 'METHOD: CANCELLED' when it should be 'METHOD: CANCEL'
February 21, 2024:
- BUGFIX: Typo in the group promote page.
- BUGFIX: When sending email, if we received an error during the EHLO command followed by a disconnect from the server, we didn't record the error message received; we instead recorded 'EOF'.
February 22, 2024:
- BUGFIX: In some very rare instances, when trying to display a message on the website, we'd improperly decode a message part, causing an error and the message to not be displayed.
- SYSADMIN: Begin warm-up process for our remaining new email servers; contact various email service providers asking them to allow email from these servers.
- INTERNAL: Improve our email server monitoring systems to make it easier to deal with additional email servers.
The next #changelog will be published on March 1, 2024.
Take care everyone.
Mark
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Changes to the site this week:
February 12, 2024:
- BUGFIX: A moderator with only the Remove Members permission was not actually able to remove a member from the /member page.
February 14, 2024:
- NEW: Added a new consolidated Chats page under '/chats' and replaced the Hashtags tab in the mobile toolbar with a link to it.
February 16, 2024:
- NEW: When going to a chat that you are subscribed to and you do not have a username set up, we now pop up a dialog box asking you to set a username.
The next #changelog will be published on February 23, 2024.
Take care everyone.
Mark
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Changes to the site this week:
February 5, 2024:
- NEW: The person who starts a chat now has the ability to delete chat messages (group owners already have that ability).
February 6, 2024:
- NEW: Group moderators and the person that starts a chat can now remove people from a chat, on the /chats page.
February 7, 2024:
- TEST VERSION BUGFIX: Ensure that we remove dangerous HTML from group descriptions in the /groups page.
- BUGFIX: Don't send out a summary if it's blank.
- TEST VERSION BUGFIX: Repeat summaries did not work on the add event page.
- BUGFIX: Don't send event notifications to groups that have been downgraded to free and that don't have access to the calendar.
February 8, 2024:
- SYSADMIN: Started sending some group emails through new email server mail03.groups.io, and began warming up mail04.groups.io.
February 9, 2024:
- CHANGE: Ensure that all group emails have a proper To header line, meaning we add one if it's missing, and we change it to the group email address if it doesn't already contain a proper email address (ie 'undisclosed recipients').
The next #changelog will be published on February 16, 2024.
Take care everyone.
Mark
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Changes to the site this week:
January 29, 2024:
- BUGFIX: Prevent subgroups from being renamed to the parent group.
January 31, 2024:
- CHANGE: Added 'Select All' screen reader labels to checkboxes.
- BUGFIX: Clicking the 'Approvals Needed' column in the /groups page no longer disables clicking it a second time.
February 2, 2024:
- BUGFIX: If a member subscribed via email to a subgroup and didn't already have a parent group subscription, the member is automatically subscribed to the parent group. But the notification that they had subscribed to the parent group was sent out indicating that they had subscribed to the subgroup. That meant most mods got two exactly the same notifications.
- BUGFIX: Hopefully fixed an issue where for some people, the unread count badge on the app icon would get 'stuck' and never disappear.
The next #changelog will be published on February 9, 2024.
Take care everyone.
Mark
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Changes to the site this week:
January 22, 2024:
- NEW: For bouncing/bounced members in the Member page, hovering over the B badge displays the most recent bounce message received.
January 24, 2024:
- BUGFIX: The column width numbers in database tables were being ignored.
The next #changelog will be published on February 2, 2024.
Take care everyone.
Mark
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Changes to the site this week:
January 14, 2024:
- ADMIN: Began reverification process for a subset of users to address the issue of email being sent to SpamHaus spam traps.
January 15, 2024:
- BUGFIX: +owner emails were being sent to moderators even if their accounts were bounced or not confirmed.
- BUGFIX: RSVP changed notifications were being sent with an envelope from of the person who initiated the change, when the envelope from should have been [email protected]
January 16, 2024:
- NEW: Added RI and RS badges to the members page to indicate members that are in process of reverifying and those who successfully reverified.
January 17, 2024:
- NEW: In the Members page, the Download button now respects the Filters that have been applied.
January 18, 2024:
- NEW: Added a Reverify FAQ page.
- CHANGE: When viewing a database table, for paragraph columns, we now truncate long cells with a Show More dialog.
January 19, 2024:
- ADMIN: Sent second reverification email.
The next #changelog will be published on January 26, 2024.
Take care everyone.
Mark
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Changes to the site this week:
January 2, 2024:
- BUGFIX: When replying to sender and BCCing ourselves, we were not re-writing the From line of the BCCed message when we needed to in order to avoid Gmail spoof warnings.
January 8, 2024:
- BUGFIX: We weren't disabling the 'Add Sidebar' button properly in the wiki.
- BUGFIX: The algorithm for generating a Topic summary when editing an existing message was not the same as the algorithm for generating a Topic summary of a new Topic, and generated worse summaries when dealing with some types of messages.
- BUGFIX: Trim spaces from the beginning and end when updating/setting passwords.
January 9, 2024:
- BUGFIX: Better handle 'EXTERNAL:' subject prefixes.
- CHANGE: For moderator notifications when a mod in another group changes a member's email address or display name, we used to show the moderator's name and email. Instead, we now say 'A moderator in another group'.
- BUGFIX: In certain instances, after adding multiple images to a post and then deleting one of the images, it could cause some of the other images to not display correctly.
- BUGFIX: In the '/pendingmsgs' page, the pending message badge was not refreshing immediately after approving/rejecting pending messages.
The next #changelog will be published on January 19, 2024.
Take care everyone.
Mark
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Changes to the site this week:
December 18, 2023:
- CHANGE: Activity log and mod notification changes for spam reports.
December 21, 2023:
- BUGFIX: Remove unreferenced inline images from posts/replies.
December 22, 2023:
- BUGFIX: If there was more than one image specified in the Extra Member Data, uploading those images was broken.
- INTERNAL: Additional work to block spammers.
I am on vacation the next two weeks. Email to support will be monitored but response times will be longer than normal. The next #changelog will be published on January 12th, 2024.
Take care everyone. I hope you have a great end of the year.
Mark
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Changes to the site this week:
December 11, 2023:
- BUGFIX: An HTML paragraph extra member data field would not be editable in some circumstances.
December 15, 2023:
- CHANGE: Changed the group sponsorship process to be two steps instead of one, to make it more clear that an amount needs to be entered before selecting credit card/Paypal.
The next #changelog will be published on December 22, 2023.
Take care everyone.
Mark
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Changes to the site this week:
December 5, 2023:
- CHANGE: Wiki exports now are in JSON format and include all information about wiki page edits.
- FIX: Typo fix on the Donations page, along with including a blurb about using Sponsorships to fund group fees.
The next #changelog will be published on December 15, 2023.
Take care everyone.
Mark
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Changes to the site this week:
November 27, 2023:
- CHANGE: Our email parsing code was rejecting some messages that had improperly quoted Content-Type MIME header lines. It was correct that it's an error, but we want to accept those messages anyways. I've changed the code so that now handles this particular case and doesn't reject those messages.
November 28, 2023:
- BUGFIX: When updating a File from the Files search result page, the activity log entry as well as the notification did not include the fully qualified path for the File, and the link was broken.
December 1, 2023:
- NEW: Added a new step in the create group flow where you can specify a list of people to invite when the group is approved.
- SYSADMIN: Upgraded the instance running Redis because we were running out of memory.
The next #changelog will be published on December 8, 2023.
Take care everyone.
Mark
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Changes to the site this week:
November 21, 2023:
- BUGFIX: Users were unable to update the number of guests they were bringing to events.
- BUGFIX: Link colors on the Photos search result page were difficult to read.
The next #changelog will be published on December 1, 2023.
Take care everyone.
Mark
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Changes to the site this week:
November 13, 2023:
- NEW: In the
/chats page, we now display member counts for each chat, and you can click on those to show the members.
November 14, 2023:
- NEW: Added MiniOrange/WordPress SSO support for enterprise groups
November 16, 2023:
- SYSADMIN: Started the warm up process for a new email server.
The next #changelog will be published on November 22, 2023.
Take care everyone.
Mark
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Changes to the site this week:
November 8, 2023:
- CHANGE: Updated spam unsubscription notification.
The next #changelog will be published on November 17, 2023.
Take care everyone.
Mark
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Changes to the site this week:
November 1, 2023:
- CHANGE: Launched the new activity log blurbs, as discussed on beta@ over the past two months.
The next #changelog will be published on November 10, 2023.
Take care everyone.
Mark
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Mark Fletcher