Changes to the site this week:
There were no changes to the site this week.
The next #changelog will be published on November 3, 2023.
Take care everyone.
Mark
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Changes to the site this week:
October 18, 2023:
- BUGFIX: Some RSVP change notification emails were being sent with an incorrect envelope from, which caused Gmail to reject them.
The next #changelog will be published on October 27, 2023.
Take care everyone.
Mark
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Changes to the site this week:
October 11, 2023:
- NEW: We include more information derived from a member's IP address in the
/member page as well as in pending subscription notifications.
The next #changelog will be published on October 20, 2023.
Take care everyone.
Mark
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Changes to the site this week:
October 3, 2023:
- BUGFIX: In some instances, it was not possible to print more than the first page of the website due to a CSS issue.
October 4, 2023:
- BUGFIX: With SSO set up on an Enterprise group, there was a case where a member is validated by the SSO service but could not join the group.
October 6, 2023:
- CHANGE: Indicate that an event is canceled in the Upcoming Events emails.
- CHANGE: Added a checkbox to send the Removed Member notice on the bulk remove page.
The next #changelog will be published on October 13, 2023.
Take care everyone.
Mark
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Changes to the site this week:
September 25, 2023:
- NEW UI: Buttons are larger, dark mode border tweaks.
September 27, 2023:
- CHANGE: For now, removed the misleading search box when viewing the Emailed Photos album.
The next #changelog will be published on October 5, 2023.
Take care everyone.
Mark
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Change to the site this week:
September 18, 2023:
- BUGFIX: For some
post to sub messages we were not doing required DMARC From munging correctly.
The next #changelog will be published on September 29, 2023.
Take care everyone.
Mark
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Changes to the site this week:
September 11, 2023:
- BUGFIX: Trim spaces from msg number searches.
September 12, 2023:
- CHANGE: We now store information on the 20 most recent successful and attempted deliveries for each member.
September 13, 2023:
- BUGFIX: Times in chat messages could be displayed using the wrong timezone.
- SYSADMIN: Upgraded the redis instance to deal with saving more delivery reports.
The next #changelog will be published on September 22, 2023.
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Mark
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Changes to the site this week:
September 4, 2023:
- CHANGE: In the app, added a back arrow when navigating the Files section.
September 6, 2023:
- CHANGE: Chat messages can now include multiple photos, and you can mix text and photos in a single message now.
- CHANGE: Improved image viewer for chat and you can now download images.
- BUGFIX: Exporting a table to CSV did not properly export any Number columns.
September 8, 2023:
- CHANGE: When sending photos in chat now, we display the chat message immediately without waiting for the photo data to be uploaded to the server.
- BUGFIX: Downloading events didn't work on the app.
- BUGFIX: It sometimes happened that an incorrect sorting parameter was used when viewing Emailed Photos, leading to a blank page.
The next #changelog will be published on September 15, 2023.
Take care everyone.
Mark
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Changes to the site this week:
August 27, 2023:
- BUGFIX: Fix scrolling issue on mobile.
- BUGFIX: Fix instances where scrolling up on mobile or the app would result in duplicates .
August 28, 2023:
- BUGFIX: Numerous chat page fixes.
August 29, 2023:
- BUGFIX: Chat profile images now reference a 开云体育 hosted URL instead of a time-based S3 URL. That was a problem when you had to scroll to new messages after the URLs had timed-out.
- BUGFIX: The @ mention dialog was being covered by the keyboard on mobile devices.
- NEW: Chat messages now show link previews.
August 30, 2023:
- CHANGE: Several appearance tweaks to the chat page.
September 1, 2023:
- BUGFIX: In the Default Sub Page, for Extra Member Data, we were not saving changes to the exclude fields for Address columns.
- CHANGE: Updated the language translation files.
The next #changelog will be published on September 8, 2023.
Take care everyone.
Mark
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Changes to the site this week:
August 22, 2023:
- CHANGE: Revamped the create group page, splitting it into 3 pages, and adding/clarifying group options.
August 23, 2023:
- INTERNAL: Made improvements to the spammer detection system.
August 24, 2023:
- CHANGE: Improved mobile navigation tabs.
- BUGFIX: Fixed the scrollbar on mobile in cases where it extended into the bottom navbar.
- INTERNAL: Changed the CSS structure for chat to prepare for other internal mobile structural changes.
- SUPPORT: Added additional macros to make support easier.
August 25, 2023:
- BUGFIX: Fixed the missing scrollbar in the editor that was caused by yesterday's CSS changes to fix the mobile scrollbar.
- CHANGE: Added a header to the pending email notification email to hopefully prevent multiple notifications from being grouped together in Gmail.
- INTERNAL: Upgraded HTMX library to 1.9.4.
- CHANGE: When editing an existing message, clicking on an attachment no longer brings it up. This is to address a Firefox bug.
- BUGFIX: Fix extra spaces issue when editing message footers.
The next #changelog will be published on September 1, 2023.
Take care everyone.
Mark
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Changes to the site this week:
August 17, 2023:
- INTERNAL: Upgraded the Go compiler
- SYSADMIN: Migrated one of the database replica machines to the new data center.
- BUGFIX: In some instances we were allowing inbound (spam) emails with forged From header lines from groups.io domains.
August 18, 2023:
- APP: Check for old versions of the app and display a page asking them to upgrade.
- BUGFIX: Don't send bounce notifications to moderators for banned users.
- INTERNAL: Upgraded our Font Awesome package and cleaned up how we store it in the repository.
The next #changelog will be published on August 25, 2023.
Take care everyone.
Mark
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Changes to the site this week:
July 22, 2023:
- CHANGE: Changed visited color link to a more visible purple. This was later rolled back.
July 25, 2023:
- CHANGE: Prevent pasting of images into the editor in groups that don't allow attachments.
July 26, 2023:
- CHANGE: Removed yesterday's change of preventing pasting images into the editor for groups that don't allow attachments, because it was interfering with pasting tabs. Instead, handled the error better with a new error message.
- INTERNAL: Improved our firewall blocking on the DNS servers.
- CHANGE: When editing a pending message that has attachments, the attachment previews are no longer clickable, as that was interfering with the operation of the delete checkboxes on Firefox.
- CHANGE: Updated the
Topic Properties page with the new Add Hashtag UI scheme.
- CHANGE: Hard-code mail.com addresses as needing DMARC mitigation, even though they are
p=none. It appears that Yahoo et al are looking at the sp=quarantine value of mail.com's DMARC record. Which I think is wrong, but I also want email to flow, and right now Yahoo is blocking all email from us from mail.com senders.
July 30, 2023:
- BUGFIX: Editing a database that had multi select field names with ampersand characters would cause those to be expanded to &
August 1, 2023:
- CHANGE: Change
album to photo album in photo notifications.
- CHANGE: No longer include X- headers in DKIM signing of email messages.
August 2, 2023:
- NEW: Added
Réf. : reply prefix.
- BUGFIX: When editing a pending message, when determining if the message is a reply to an existing topic, take into account whether the message subject has been changed.
August 3, 2023:
- CHANGE: When splitting topics, we no longer generate two activity log messages. The
split topic log message now includes links to both resulting topics. Also, reversed the from and to parts of the changed topic subject log message to be more consistent with other log messages.
- BUGFIX: When replying on the web to a message that has a subject that contains a word that matches an included hashtag, the hashtag was omitted from the reply's subject.
August 4, 2023:
- CHANGE: Added a hashtag to an existing topic that has the
Locked attribute now locks the topic immediately.
I am on vacation through Wednesday, August 16th. The beta group will be moderated during that time; expect message approval within a couple of days. The next #changelog will be published on August 18, 2023.
Take care everyone.
Mark
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Changes to the site this week:
July 17, 2023:
- INTERNAL: Better tracking of iCloud blocking
- CHANGE: Disable 1Password/LastPass autofill of the email address field when viewing a group member.
- NEW: In the
/members page, display the active filters.
July 19, 2023:
- BUGFIX: Dialogs on mobile were too close to the top of the screen, which was conflicting with Apple's dynamic island.
July 20, 2023:
- BUGFIX: Fixed a problem where the Authentication-Results header line would incorrectly state that gmail.com's DKIM signature was out of date.
- CHANGE: Now all emails are sent with List-Unsubscribe headers with one-click links. Previously, depending on group settings, some emails were sent with List-Unsubscribe headers that contained mailto links that required a confirmation.
- CHANGE: Ignore all email from
unsubscribe@... which is an unsubscribe service that was generating false unsubscription requests.
July 21, 2023:
- CHANGE: Only display the
Add Tags button on the edit pending message page if the message is starting a new Topic. Also, changed it from the drop down to a dialog box to match the Post page.
- CHANGE: Changed the Activity drop down for changing group settings from
Edited group to Changed group settings.
- CHANGE: Don't underline non-group member senders when viewing messages.
- BUGFIX: Hide the
Past button on the Bulk Remove page for free groups.
I am on vacation next Thursday and Friday, so the next #changelog will be published on August 4th, 2023.
Take care everyone.
Mark
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Changes to the site this week:
July 1, 2023:
- INTERNAL: Switched our main database pgbouncer to a different machine because of CPU steal problems.
July 10, 2023:
- CHANGE: Added several more email header fields to be included when DKIM signing emails.
- INTERNAL: Switched DKIM signing libraries because a bug was causing incorrect DKIM signatures to be generated in some instances when we want to sign all message headers.
- NEW: Enabled one click unsubscribe as defined in RFC 8058.
July 11, 2023:
- NEW: Added a new activity log entry,
Spam message sent to +owner.
- BUGFIX: When attempted to rename a hashtag to another existing hashtag, a blank page would be shown instead of an error message.
July 12, 2023:
- BUGFIX: We were double escaping subaction reasons.
- BUGFIX: We were not logging email delivery changes processed from the
/leave page.
- BUGFIX: Disable the
Discard button unless checkboxes are checked.
- CHANGE: Added
Member Profile link in the dropdown when viewing a message.
- CHANGE: Renamed the
Spam Control panel to Group Type and Moderation in Settings.
July 13, 2023:
- NEW: When viewing or editing a pending message that is a reply, show a link to the message being replied to.
July 14, 2023:
- CHANGE: In the edit hashtag page, change the help text for the
Alias dropdown to Redirect this hashtag to another hashtag.
- CHANGE: Changed the
Create Table button on the Databases page to New Database.
- BUGFIX: We weren't updating the internal ContentType for files when they were updated.
- NEW: New polls now obey the group moderation settings. As of now, you cannot edit a pending poll, and edits to existing/approved polls, are not moderated.
- BUGFIX: Hashtags created from incoming message subjects were lower cased. We now preserve their case.
- BUGFIX: In some instances with hashtags that had multiple cases, a reply on the web would show an extra hashtag in the subject.
The next #changelog will be published on July 21, 2023.
Take care everyone.
Mark
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June 26, 2023:
- CHANGE: Updated the
New Topic page with the new sender display.
- BUGFIX: Do a better job of cleaning subject lines to the +owner address.
June 27, 2023:
- CHANGE: Updated the
New Poll page with the new sender display.
- CHANGE: Updated the
/posttosub page with the new sender display.
- CHANGE: Added user icon to the navbar account dropdown.
- CHANGE: Combined the recently added
Mentions notification preference into the existing Messages notification.
- INTERNAL: Optimized notification sending.
June 28, 2023:
- NEW: Subgroups can now have a different default language than the parent group. Also, setting the parent group's default language now (re)sets all subgroups' default language to the new parent group's default language.
- NEW: When configuring database Address columns, you can now specify that the street, city, state, zip and/or country fields be excluded.
- CHANGE: Updated the message reply page with the new sender display.
- BUGFIX: The
/attachments page should only be viewable by group moderators.
June 29, 2023:
- CHANGE: On narrow screens (mobile/app), the Account button is now a modal dialog instead of a dropdown. for improved readability/spacing.
- CHANGE: Updated the archives pages with the new sender display. Also, moved the
All Messages By This Member option to the new sender dropdown.
I will be on vacation tomorrow through next week. The next #changelog will be published on July 14, 2023.
Take care everyone.
Mark
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Changes to the site this week:
June 18, 2023:
- CHANGE: Right align pending message and pending sub badge counts in the group sidebar.
June 20, 2023:
- NEW: There is a new group setting, 'Allow Videos in Photos', and when that is checked there is a new selector to determine the max size of videos allowed in the Photos section.
- CHANGE: When viewing the likes for a message, if a liker is no longer a member of the group, display
[Person is no longer a member].
- BUGFIX: Fixes to get SSO using NoviAMS working.
June 21, 2023:
- CHANGE: Updated the edit pending message page to more match the pending message page.
- CHANGE: Pending message reject notices now get emailed with the From set to the +owner address (previously they were sent from noreply).
- NEW: Added
EXTERNAL and [SPAM] to the list of subject prefixes that we remove.
- NEW: Subscriptions have a new notification,
Mentions, to control how you get notified when someone mentions your user name in a group message.
June 23, 2023:
- BUGFIX:
/posttosub was not working in some instances.
The next #changelog will be published on June 30, 2023.
Take care everyone.
Mark
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Changes to the site this week:
June 13, 2023:
- BUGFIX: Video dialog windows could sometimes extend past the viewport, meaning you couldn't see the entire video.
- CHANGE: Improved the wording of chat post notifications.
June 15, 2023:
- CHANGE: In lock topic notifications, we now include a
References header pointing back to the original topic. This allows the system to lock topics that are more than two weeks old successfully (we only do subject matching to determine replies for two weeks).
June 16, 2023:
- NEW: Added
reason field to the Bulk Remove Member page.
- NEW: Added
reason field on the /members Verify Action dialog when banning people.
- NEW: When unbanning someone you can enter a reason.
- BUGFIX: Unbanning someone from the
/member page did not generate an activity log entry.
- DOCS: Updates from Nina. Owners Manual Revision History, Members Manual Revision History
The next #changelog will be published on June 23, 2023.
Take care everyone.
Mark
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Changes to the site this week:
June 3, 2023:
- NEW: When removing or banning someone, you can now enter a reason which will be displayed in the activity log.
June 4, 2023:
- BUGFIX: When loading an existing chat with images, there could be flashing as the images load.
June 5, 2023:
- NEW: You can now click on an image in a chat to bring up a bigger version of the image.
- NEW: Clicking video attachments now brings up a viewer on the web instead of just downloading the attachments (which you can still do.)
June 6, 2023:
- CHANGE: Improved the display of attachments in digests, matching the changes made on the website last week.
- BUGFIX: Pull to refresh on the app was using the wrong element, so the sidebar got pulled down as well.
- CHANGE: In the pending message screen, if you click on the email address of the sender, that brings up the dropdown with options for the sender. Click on the email address at the top of that to automatically copy the email address into your clipboard.
June 8, 2023:
- BUGFIX: When adding an event, if you first set a start and end time, then decide to check the All Day checkbox to make the event go all day, the #cal-notice messages would still be sent out at the start time you had originally set, instead of at Midnight when they should go out.
June 9, 2023:
- NEW: You can now upload videos to chats.
The next #changelog will be published on June 16, 2023.
Take care everyone.
Mark
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Changes to the site this week:
May 29, 2023:
- CHANGE: Improved the image compression when uploading images to chats, so that the process should be much faster.
May 30, 2023:
- BUGFIX:
New Topic links appeared in message and digest footers in announcement groups for non-moderators.
- CHANGE: Tweaks to the pending message page, including showing the reason why the message is pending, as well as adding back the deleted Delete button.
- CHANGE: Small changes to the pending messages page to be more consistent with the pending message page.
May 31, 2023:
- CHANGE: Changed the Reply page, removing the
Private and Group Reply toggle system and replacing it with a selector to choose where your reply should go.
June 1, 2023:
- CHANGE: When displaying an HTML message in the archives, if an element has a height or width specified, only allow that if the values are in percentages, not pixels. This is to hopefully prevent weird horizontal/vertical scrolling of the message.
- BUGFIX: The attachment size display in the pending message page was incorrect.
- CHANGE: Cleaned up the display of attachments on the website.
- NEW: In chat, you can now reply to specific messages.
June 2, 2023:
- NEW: There is a new group
ReplyTo setting for groups that have subgroups, Reply To Other Group. When selected, another selector is displayed allowing you to select the other group that replies should be sent to. This works for normal groups and it works for Announce groups.
- CHANGE: Added back the date display on the pending message page.
- BUGFIX: When splitting a message into reply parts, if the first split chunk contains no text, remove it.
The next #changelog will be published on June 9, 2023.
Take care everyone.
Mark
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Changes to the site this week:
May 22, 2023:
- BUGFIX: Multi Choice, Single Select extra member data columns would not save updates.
- BUGFIX: When switching from monthly to annual and vice versa for a premium group, legacy pricing wasn't considered when displaying the potential new charge amount.
- CHANGE: Added a label for each checkbox on the /groups page for screen readers.
- CHANGE: On the
/member page for banned people, removed the Remove button and replaced it with an Unban button.
- CHANGE: Made Delete button placement more consistent by moving some Delete buttons to the far right hand side.
May 23, 2023:
- BUGFIX: When upgrading a group, for some types of credit card errors, a blank screen would come up instead of a proper error message.
May 24, 2023:
- BUGFIX: For Reply To Sender topics, if a draft reply had been toggled to Reply To Group, we would not save that setting in the draft. This would cause the buttons to be out of sync when revisiting the draft.
- BUGFIX: Database JSON import of single select/multi select columns had an off-by-one error, causing the results in those columns to be incorrect.
May 26, 2023:
- NEW: Enterprise groups that use SSO can now specify whether SSO is mandatory or whether you can also log in via email.
- NEW: Initial work on supporting NoviAMS for SSO.
The next #changelog will be published on June 2, 2023.
Take care everyone.
Mark
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Mark Fletcher