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October 16, 2026

Messages & Topics
  • API BUGFIX: Polls created with /newpoll were never attached to a topic: the response had a msg_num of 0, and the poll showed as deleted on the website. /newpoll now posts the poll to the group as a new topic and returns it with its msg_num.
  • API BUGFIX: /updatepoll failed instead of updating the poll. It now updates the poll and edits its topic.
  • API BUGFIX: When posting a poll failed because it was too big, was sent to an announcement-only group by a non-moderator, or had a bad attachment, /newpoll and /updatepoll returned the error followed by the poll in the same response. They now return just the error.
  • API CHANGE: Removed the announce parameter from the /newpoll and /updatepoll documentation. It was never used; polls are always posted to the group as a topic. Callers that still send it are unaffected.
  • INTERNAL: dbfetch can now look up polls by ID, group, or user, including polls that were never attached to a message.
  • CHANGE: On the single-message page, the topic subject was a lower-level heading than the messages under it. It is now a level 2 heading, as on the topic page. Each message's heading for screen readers is now just the sender's name, without "Message from" and the date, which is read right after it. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/41398
  • BUGFIX: In the Verify Merge window, if the subject of the topic you were merging into contained a double quote, the subject was cut off at the quote and replaced with a backslash. Single quotes were shown as \u0027. Subjects are now shown exactly as written. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/41392
  • CHANGE: The Yes button in the Verify Merge window now uses the same checkmark icon as other confirmation buttons. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/41403
  • CHANGE: The Mute button on topic and message pages was orange, so it looked like the topic had already been muted. Mute, Unmute, Follow, and Unfollow are now plain grey buttons. When a topic is muted or followed, a Muted or Followed badge now appears next to the button, so you can tell the current state at a glance. The same applies to the Mute, Unmute, Follow, Unfollow, Mute/Notify, and Follow/Notify buttons for hashtags on the hashtag search results and the Hashtags list. The Edit button for hashtag owners on the hashtag search results, which was also orange, is now blue, like the Edit Tag button on the Hashtags list. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/41413
  • BUGFIX: Messages written in Markdown on the website looked different in the group's archive than in the editor's preview. Headings, lists, and paragraphs had extra blank lines between them, so the message looked spread out. The same happened on the Pending Messages page when moderators reviewed a Markdown message. Markdown messages now look the same as in the preview.

October 9, 2026

Messages & Topics
  • BUGFIX: After you scrolled down a Topics or Messages page far enough to load more, the page didn't clean up after itself when you went to another page, so parts of the old page could keep running in the background. In the mobile app, the handlers that hide the bottom bar when the keyboard opens also piled up as you moved between pages. Pages now clean up properly when you leave them.
  • INTERNAL: Pressing a key while a long Topics or Messages page was still loading no longer causes a JavaScript error.

October 2, 2026

Messages & Topics
  • BUGFIX: If you were set to show 50 or 100 items per page and edited a topic's properties from the second or later page of Topics, clicking Update returned you to Topics showing only 20 topics per page, and paging kept using 20 until you left Topics. Your per-page setting is now kept. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/41297
  • BUGFIX: On the Edit Topic Properties page, Cancel always took you to the topic, even if you had come from the Topics list or search results. Update from a topic's own page took you to the first page of Topics instead of back to the topic. Both Cancel and Update now return you to where you came from. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/41297

September 25, 2026

Messages & Topics
  • BUGFIX: When viewing a single message, the previous/next arrows and message number in the upper right sat slightly lower than the Msg # box and the buttons on the left. They now line up. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/41253
  • BUGFIX: When viewing a single message, the current message number between the previous/next arrows was still shown as plain grey text, unlike the current page in the site's other page navigation, which is now highlighted in blue. The message number is now highlighted the same way, both above and below the message. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/41258
  • BUGFIX: After reading an expanded topic, pressing the browser's Back button scrolled the page back up through the topic's messages before switching to the Topics list, instead of returning immediately. Back now returns to the list right away, as before. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/41269
  • BUGFIX: On a topic's page, the Previous Topic and Next Topic buttons looked clickable even when there was no previous or next topic, such as Next Topic on the newest topic, and nothing happened when you clicked them. They are greyed out again when there is nowhere to go. The Add Event button on the calendar, shown to members who can't add events, is greyed out again too.

September 18, 2026

Messages & Topics

September 11, 2026

Messages & Topics
  • NEW: An email message attached to a message (the message/rfc822 part Thunderbird creates when you drag a message into a compose window, or an .eml file) was shown on the website as a generic attachment that could only be downloaded. It now has an envelope icon, and clicking it opens the attached message in a viewer showing its From, Date, To and Subject headers and the body, with the .eml still available to download. Attachments inside the attached message are listed by name. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/41172

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