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September 25, 2026

Editor & Drafts

• BUGFIX: When replying to a message, the Discard button sat right next to Send. It is back on the right side of the reply form. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/41276
• BUGFIX: On the new topic and reply forms, the Send As Special Notice checkbox still had the old style. It now matches the site's other checkboxes. The checkboxes in the Add Hashtags dialog (on the new topic, edit topic, add event, and edit pending message pages) also now have the current style, clicking a hashtag's name now checks it, and the dialog's add button now has a + icon. Your profile photo in the sender menu on the new topic page is round again. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/41276
• BUGFIX: In the Insert Images dialog in the online editor, the Add button stayed greyed out after choosing a single image, so it could only be inserted by dragging it into the message. Also, image files without a file extension, such as by DAYS copy, could no longer be chosen or inserted. The Add button is now enabled as soon as you choose an image, and image files are recognized by their contents, whether or not they have an extension. Files that aren't images are still not inserted into the body of a message. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/41288
• BUGFIX: Sending an empty reply took you to your home page. You now stay on the topic, with the message "You must include a message."

Hashtags

• BUGFIX: Hovering over a hashtag next to a topic's subject, on the topic and message pages, made it lose its color and show dark text, which was unreadable in dark mode. Hashtags keep their color when you hover over them or open their menu. Hashtags in topic lists also no longer change to the link color on hover. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/41276
• BUGFIX: On the hashtags page, clicking Gallery View or List View could leave that icon's tooltip stuck on the screen. Tooltips now close when you move to another page, across the site. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/41276
• CHANGE: Editing a hashtag, or changing a hashtag's mute or follow settings, from the hashtags page always returned you to the first page of the list. Saving or cancelling now returns you to the page you were on, with the same sort order and view. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/41276
• BUGFIX: The Follow Hashtag page was shown without the sidebar, and the Mute Hashtag page collapsed the sidebar's Hashtags menu. Both pages now show the sidebar with the right item selected. The Follow and Mute buttons stay disabled until you enter a hashtag, and the Mute button now shows the mute icon. After muting a hashtag, you were taken to Your Groups or your feed instead of Muted Hashtags; you now return to Muted Hashtags. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/41276

Email & Delivery

• CHANGE: Digest and daily summary sender names could be ambiguous when different groups used the same subgroup name. They now use the standard breadcrumb naming, such as Beta | Main Digest and Beta | Main Summary. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/41233
• CHANGE: HTML digests were larger than they needed to be. Gmail cuts off any message over about 102KB and shows a "View entire message" link, and a digest could reach that size after only five or six messages. Everything after the cut was missing, including the messages that the Topics in this digest links jump to. Digests are now about 40% smaller, so many more messages fit before Gmail cuts them off. Digests look exactly the same as before.

Members

• BUGFIX: Clicking an invite link while logged in failed with a "logged in as another user" error when the invitation had been sent to one of your email aliases rather than your primary address, and logging out did not help because the link logged you straight back in. Invitations sent to any of your aliases can now be accepted from the website.
• CHANGE: Giving a moderator most or all permissions meant clicking up to 15 checkboxes one at a time on the member's page. The Moderator Permissions section now has Check All and Uncheck All links, so you can start from everything and remove a few, or start from nothing and add a few. The Moderator Notifications section also has a new Set All To menu that sets every moderator notification (email and web/app, email only, web/app only, or none) at once; you can still adjust individual settings afterward. Nothing is saved until you click Save. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/41181
• BUGFIX: On a member's page, changing someone's role from Owner to Moderator hid the Pending Members notification setting even when they still had the Approve Pending Members permission. It now stays visible whenever that permission is checked.

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

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

Subgroups

• CHANGE: The Create A Subgroup introduction at the top of the create subgroup page was a plain grey box. It is now the same light-blue box as the notes on other pages. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/41285
• BUGFIX: On a group's subgroup categories, adding a category without a name took you to the group's home page without saving anything or explaining why. The form now stays open with "You must enter a name." and keeps what you entered. If saving, updating, or deleting a category fails, you now return to the subgroup categories page with an error message instead of the group's home page.

Calendar

• NEW: Adding a calendar event to Google Calendar required downloading an ICS file and importing it by hand. The Add to Calendar button on an event's page is now a menu with two choices: Google Calendar, which opens Google Calendar with the event already filled in so you can review it and save it, and Download ICS file, which works as before. For repeating events, the Google option adds the occurrence you're viewing and the ICS file still contains the entire series. Event notification emails for events that don't repeat now include an Add to Google Calendar link too, and their calendar link is now labeled Download ICS file. Events you add this way are separate copies that don't receive later changes. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/41223
• CHANGE: Event pages now include a Subscribe to group calendar button for members who can subscribe, so you can follow all of a group's events, including later changes, without going back to the calendar page. The subscription dialog on both pages now includes step-by-step instructions for Google Calendar.