Updates to the Groups.io service.


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August 23, 2025


August 22, 2025

  • CHANGE: You can now include much more information when direct adding members.

August 21, 2025

  • CHANGE: When deleting a wiki page, you now must type 'I understand' before the deletion will occur.

August 18, 2025

  • CHANGE: Hardened our Oauth login flows.

August 10, 2025

  • CHANGE: Updated the Login demonstration video, minor tweaks and polish.

August 8, 2025

  • CHANGE: To comply with the new UK Online Safety Act, when creating a new group or subgroup, you will be required to check a box acknowledging compliance with our safety policy, which is at: https://groups.io/static/online-safety
  • API CHANGE: The `/creategroup` and `/createsubgroup` endpoints have a new required parameter, `accept_policies` which must have the value of `true` and signifies that you agree to our safety policy and terms of service. This requirement will go info effect on Monday, September 8th.
  • CHANGE: Changed objectionable -> inappropriate in the report notification emails. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/39454
  • BUGFIX: Changed /editthread URLs to /edittopic.
  • NEW: Improved the **Admin / Subgroup / Members** page to show member labels and to allow filtering by member labels. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/39455
  • NEW: Improved the **Admin / Membership / Direct Add** page to show parent member labels and to allow filtering by those labels. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/39455

August 5, 2025


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July 24, 2025

  • NEW: Added a table listing the top reasons why email isn't being delivered on the Email Provider Status page.

July 23, 2025

  • CHANGE: Updated the Groups.io Overview video
  • CHANGE: Now features the Groups.io Overview video on the home page.

July 22, 2025


July 21, 2025


July 18, 2025

  • NEW: Member labels are now available for premium and enterprise groups.
  • NEW: We now have a Videos section of the Help Center, and the first two videos are a Groups.io Overview and a video demonstrating how to use member labels. We also now have a YouTube channel, that contains the same content, at [Groupsio - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/@Groupsio).

July 10, 2025

  • CHANGE: Renamed the Email Weather Report to the Email Provider Status page.

July 9, 2025

  • BUGFIX: In rare cases where an HTML message has elements with IDs that start with 'msgbody', when viewing those messages with other messages in the same topic, that could cause the highlight/quote reply function to not work.
  • BUGFIX: Updated the Group Analytics page to better handle resizing.

July 7, 2025

  • NEW: Added new link 'Home' from the sidebar to the logged out home page.
  • NEW: New Email Weather Report, at https://groups.io/email-weather, showing recent delivery metrics to the largest email service providers.
  • CHANGE: Updated the event notification email to make it a bit more like the /viewevent page. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/39381

June 30, 2025

  • CHANGE: We now greylist non-member messages to groups and we are more strict about DKIM enforcement, to cut down on spam.

June 27, 2025

  • CHANGE: Fixes to the Analytics page to the X-axis alignment of the graphs.

June 26, 2025

  • NEW: In the groups analytics page, we're now tracking number of replies per day, member status distribution, email delivery preferences, and we're listing the top posters.

June 23, 2025

  • BUGFIX: Fix escaping issue with the resub notification email. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/39383
  • CHANGE: Due to a change in policy, we now have to re-write the From lines of all emails to Virgin Media properties (ntlworld.com,blueyonder.co.uk,etc).