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October 16, 2026

Moderation
  • BUGFIX: Searching the Activity log only found whole words, and parts of email addresses and hostnames weren't always separate words. For example, searching for asourcing didn't find info.asourcingelectronics-ic.com. Searches made up of plain words now also match those words anywhere inside an email address, hostname, or name, so you no longer need to add * wildcards. Searches for a full email address still match only that address. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/41412

September 25, 2026

Moderation
  • BUGFIX: In a group's Activity log, choosing a different category (such as Message Activity or Member Activity) while an action from the All actions menu was selected changed the button label but kept listing the same entries. Choosing a category now shows that category's activity. If the selected action belongs to the new category, the action filter stays; otherwise, the menu resets to All actions. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/40996

September 18, 2026

Moderation

September 11, 2026

Moderation
  • BUGFIX: In the activity log, clicking a file link displayed the raw file contents in the page. File links now open in a new tab and let the browser handle the file, as on the Files page, and moved-folder entries now include the folder link icon that moved-file entries have. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/41151

September 4, 2026

Moderation
  • CHANGE: When a moderator rejected a member's pending message, the rejection notice sent to the member was not recorded in the member's email delivery history. It is now recorded there as a member notice, the same way rejected subscription notices are, and if the notice bounces, that is recorded in the member's bounce history. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/41060
  • BUGFIX: On the pending message pages, the previous/next message arrows next to the "1 of N" count rendered as tiny unstyled chevrons crammed against the count, instead of the normal navigation buttons. They are now proper buttons again, on both the view and edit pages. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/41124
  • BUGFIX: The pending message page threw a JavaScript error on every view, which also broke the "Copy Email Address" tooltip in the sender dropdown.
  • BUGFIX: On the view pending message page, the sender's profile photo in the sender dropdown was drawn as a rounded square instead of a circle like the sender dropdown on other pages. It is a circle again. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/41130
  • BUGFIX: The edit pending message page still showed the old-style sender dropdown: an underlined name next to a large square photo or user icon, unlike the view pending message and New Topic pages. It now uses the same sender chip as those pages. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/41130
  • CHANGE: The "All actions" filter on the Activity pages (the group activity log, a member's activity, and your own account's activity page) used its own older look: square corners, a darker border and a small triangle, matching no other dropdown on the site. It now has the same corners, border, height and arrow as the other selectors, in light and dark mode, and the highlighted item in its list uses the site's blue. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/41139

August 29, 2026

Moderation
  • CHANGE: In the activity log, entries for topics that were automatically deleted because a hashtag expired were filed under "Hashtag - Expired" — an easy place to overlook when looking for a deleted topic, since every other deletion is listed under "Message - ..." or "Topic - ...". The action is now named "Topic - Deleted due to expired hashtag" and appears in the action filter directly after "Topic - Deleted". Existing log entries are unaffected other than the new name. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/40997
  • BUGFIX: Banning an email address that didn't already have a Groups.io account ran the address through the same validation used for new registrations, so addresses on disposable email domains, role accounts like postmaster@, and similar were rejected with "That email address is not valid" — exactly the addresses moderators most want to ban. Banning now only requires that the address be a plausible email address. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/40936
  • CHANGE: Activity log entries for event RSVPs named the event but not its date, so with repeating events — which all share the same name — there was no way to tell which occurrence someone had RSVPed to without opening each instance on the calendar. RSVP entries now include the event's date, e.g. "RSVPed yes to event Weekly Training (scheduled for Sep 16)". This also covers RSVPs removed or changed by a moderator, waitlist promotions, and attendee comment edits. The dates — including those already shown on added/updated/deleted event entries — are now displayed using your timezone and date format preferences. Existing log entries are unchanged. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/40961
  • BUGFIX: The activity log entry for removing a group alias showed an internal id number ("removed group alias 153958") instead of the alias itself. It now logs the alias name, and both the added and removed entries quote it like other text values in the log. Existing entries are unchanged. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/41096

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