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October 16, 2026

Group Settings
  • CHANGE: After you submitted an Export Group Data request, the page showed only a confirmation box, and closing it left a blank page. You now return to the export form with the confirmation notice at the top, as on other pages, so you can start another export. The confirmation's close button was also missing its X. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/41402
  • BUGFIX: Clicking Export Group Data with nothing selected emailed you an empty zip file. It now asks you to select the data you want to export. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/41402
  • BUGFIX: Going to an Admin page from a link outside the sidebar, such as the Export button on the Topics or Messages page, highlighted it in the sidebar but left the Admin menu collapsed, so nothing looked selected. The sidebar now opens the menus around it. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/41402
  • BUGFIX: On the group Settings page and other group pages, pressing Enter in a text box saved the changes and showed "Your changes have been saved", but the text box still had its focus outline, so it looked like it was still being edited. After a successful save, focus now moves off the field. If the save fails, focus still stays on the field with the error. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/41320

October 2, 2026

Group Settings
  • BUGFIX: After renaming a group or subgroup in Settings, most of the sidebar links still used the old name and led to an error page. The page now fully reloads after a rename, so the sidebar uses the new name. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/41321

September 25, 2026

Group Settings
  • CHANGE: When deleting a group, subgroup, account, or wiki page, the Delete button could be clicked before I understand had been entered, or with text that didn't match (such as I understand: with the colon copied from the prompt). The page then reloaded without deleting anything or explaining why. The Delete button now stays disabled until I understand is entered; capitalization and extra spaces don't matter. The prompt now reads "enter I understand below:", which keeps the colon away from the phrase. Also, pressing Enter in the I understand box on the account deletion page could switch your subscriptions to HTML Digest; it now presses the Delete button, and only once that button is enabled. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/41270
  • BUGFIX: On the create group and create subgroup pages, choosing private messages opened a confirmation dialog that differed from the one on a group's settings page: the Yes button had a minus icon, and the titles and wording varied. Clicking Yes also submitted the form immediately, which on the create subgroup page could create the subgroup before you'd finished filling it in. The dialogs now match the settings page, with a check mark on Yes, and clicking Yes only confirms your choice. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/41285

September 18, 2026

Group Settings

September 11, 2026

Group Settings

September 4, 2026

Group Settings
  • BUGFIX: On the Membership Defaults page, selecting Following Only did not enable the First Message Also and Auto Follow Replies checkboxes, and did not auto-check Auto Follow Replies, so those defaults could not be set. Also changed a leftover "thread" to "topic" in that page's help text and in the plain-text email footer. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/41099
  • BUGFIX: On the group Settings page, the Restricted Membership checkbox (and the Allow Sponsorships checkbox in the General section) rendered as bare, unstyled checkboxes next to their styled neighbors. Both now match the other checkboxes. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/41098
  • CHANGE: The "To help prevent spam, groups must have at least one of these options set" note sat in a grey footer at the bottom of the Group Type and Moderation section, where it was easy to miss and often required scrolling to see. It now appears as a highlighted note at the top of the section. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/41098
  • CHANGE: The Two-Factor Authentication Policy setting has moved from the General section of the Settings page into the Privacy section, which is now titled Privacy and Security. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/41098
  • BUGFIX: The Settings page did not enforce the rule that a group must keep at least one anti-spam option enabled: you could uncheck them all, and the site would silently re-enable New Members Moderated when saving. The page now keeps the last remaining option on (re-checking the checkbox, or reverting the Message Moderation selector), so the page always reflects what will actually be saved.
  • CHANGE: The Group Description editor on the Settings page and the Signature editor on the Subscription page were always at least 400 pixels tall - a minimum sized for the message composer - showing mostly blank space for short content, and could not be resized any smaller. Both editors now size themselves to their content and can be resized down to 200 pixels; the message composer is unchanged. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/41108
  • CHANGE: On the Membership Defaults page, only the panel title expanded or collapsed the Default Subscription Settings and Default User Settings panels; the description text under the title did nothing, so the cursor flipped between a pointer and a text cursor as you moved across the heading. The description now toggles the panel too. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/41144
  • CHANGE: The Edit Notice page had no Cancel button, unlike the other edit pages. It now has one, returning to the Notices list. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/41144

August 29, 2026

Group Settings
  • CHANGE: On the group Aliases page, the entry form now sits above the list of aliases — matching the Banned Domains arrangement — so adding an alias no longer requires scrolling past a long list. The help text moved into the box itself as placeholder text, the list is sorted alphabetically instead of by the date added, and the add buttons on both the Aliases and Banned Domains pages get a little breathing room above them. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/41078

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