Groups.io: Changelog

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October 9, 2026

Design & Accessibility
  • CHANGE: Tooltips now stay open while you move the pointer onto them, and you can close them with the Escape key. The abbreviated badges on Your Groups and in your feed (P, M, NP, NMM, and others) now have their full meaning available to screen readers.
  • CHANGE: Error messages that pop up at the top of the page now stay until you close them, instead of disappearing after a couple of seconds. Other notices stay for 10 seconds and don't disappear while you're pointing at them or have moved to them with the keyboard. A failed image upload now shows a message that stays until you close it.
  • CHANGE: On phones, the full title of a topic, chat, or wiki page is now shown on the page itself, since the header can only fit part of it. On very short screens, such as when the browser is zoomed in a long way, the header and bottom bar scroll with the page instead of covering most of it. Pages no longer scroll sideways on narrow screens.
  • CHANGE: Pages now tell browsers and screen readers which language they're in, matching the language you've chosen for the site, so screen readers use the right pronunciation.

September 25, 2026

Design & Accessibility
  • CHANGE: Changed the fourth and final batch of web pages from Bootstrap 3 to Bootstrap 5: the Messages pages (topics, messages, threads, search, hashtag pages, polls, drafts, posting and editing), the mute and follow pages, subscription settings and member notices, your home page and feed, your groups list, your calendar, account settings, login, registration and two-factor pages, profiles, the help center and API documentation, and the site chrome shared by every page (header, menus, sidebars, dialogs). This is plumbing, not a redesign; the pages should look and behave as before. With this batch the whole site is on Bootstrap 5 and the old framework is gone.
  • BUGFIX: On the Drafts, Followed Hashtags, and Muted Hashtags pages, the checkboxes still had the old style and the rows didn't alternate colors. Both now match the site's other lists. The button for removing hashtags on these pages was called Delete and was blue on Followed Hashtags; it is now a red Remove button on both pages, and it stays disabled until you check at least one hashtag. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/41276
  • BUGFIX: A few badges and chips still used the old style: the NC (Not Confirmed) badge on a member's page, the RI badge in the Members page's reverification note, and the label filter chips on the subgroup members and subgroup direct-add pages. They now match the rest of the site.
  • BUGFIX: In the menus on the Files, Photos, wiki, database, analytics, activity, members, and pending message pages, the up and down arrow keys didn't move between menu items. They now do, as in the site's other menus. The wiki menu's Add Footer and Add Sidebar items are now greyed out when the page already exists.
  • BUGFIX: The Sort By menus on the Photos, album, and photo search pages, and the New/Upload menu on the Files page, couldn't be reached with the Tab key. Several menu items that open a dialog also couldn't be chosen from the keyboard, including New Folder and Upload Files on the Files page, Custom Range on the analytics and activity pages, Delete This Revision in the wiki, and Copy on the pending message pages. All of them now work from the keyboard.
  • CHANGE: The notes at the top of the group and member Integrations pages, and the messages shown when there is nothing to list on the Pending Messages, Drafts, Chats, Database, and Hashtags pages, were plain grey boxes. They are now the same light-blue box as your settings pages and the Followed and Muted Hashtags pages. On the Hashtags page of a group with no hashtags, the New Hashtag button sat right against that box; there is now space between them. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/41279

September 18, 2026

Design & Accessibility

September 11, 2026

Design & Accessibility
  • BUGFIX: In dark mode, the restyled list pages (/pending, /activity, /members, /exportgroup, /analytics, /banneddomains, /subgroupmembers, /managechatmembers, /chats and the rest) had lost their alternating row colours, and the row hover colour differed from before. Both are back to the way they were. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/41160
  • CHANGE: The current page in page navigation is now highlighted in blue. Previously the only hint was the cursor changing when hovering over it, and the restyled pages had lost even that. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/41159

September 4, 2026

Design & Accessibility
  • CHANGE: Checked checkboxes and radio buttons on the redesigned admin pages used Bootstrap's default blue, a different shade from the blue used everywhere else on the site. They now use the site's blue. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/41136
  • CHANGE: The remaining old-style checkboxes and radio buttons on the redesigned admin pages now match their neighbors: the Filter menu and the Set Email Delivery dialog on the Members page, the Bcc checkboxes in the reject-message dialogs on the pending message pages, the member label filters on the subgroup pages, the pending subgroup list on the member page, the tax acknowledgment when enabling paid memberships, and the column options in the Extra Member Data column editor. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/41136
  • CHANGE: The Signature editor on the member page, the Bio editors on the account Settings and Group Profile pages, and the description editor on the subgroup category page were still at least 400 pixels tall and could not be resized any smaller, unlike the Group Description and Subscription page Signature editors changed earlier this week. They now size themselves to their content and can be resized down to 200 pixels. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/41134
  • CHANGE: Changed the third batch of web pages from Bootstrap 3 to Bootstrap 5: a group's member-facing pages — the group home page, Hashtags, Calendar, Chat, Database, Files, Photos, Wiki, Donations, Integrations, and the Slack and file sync pages — plus creating a group or subgroup. This is plumbing, not a redesign; the pages should look and behave as before. Messages and the pages outside a group are unchanged.
  • CHANGE: Dialogs on the redesigned admin pages had been slightly narrower than before the redesign. They are back to their original width.
  • BUGFIX: In the image preview on the redesigned upload pages (image columns on database rows, the group profile photo, wiki images), the previous/next arrows and the header buttons of the Detailed Preview dialog were blank. They are back.
  • BUGFIX: Dropdown selectors on the redesigned admin pages, such as Message Moderation on the Settings page, used Bootstrap's default look: squarer corners, a different border color and a blue glow when focused, unlike the rounded, lighter-bordered style of the text boxes next to them and of the dropdowns on the other pages. In dark mode the arrow on those selectors was also nearly invisible. They now match the rest of the site's form controls in both modes. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/41139

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