Groups.io: Changelog

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February 2, 2018

  • NEW: Automatically strip out common email sigs like "Sent from my iPhone".
  • INTERNAL: Sped up the overall topics view.
  • NEW: Added J's Member Notices help text to the help section.
  • BUGFIX: When creating a repeating event with an RSVP, the RSVP note was not included in the message sent to the group.
  • CHANGE: Changed the Yahoo crawling code to retry all fetches of messages, files and photos, and to report errors in group transfers.
  • INTERNAL: Changed the database queries to make jumping to a specific month in the archives more efficient.

January 26, 2018

  • INTERNAL: senddigest service now using distributed nsqd system.
  • INTERNAL: DMARC lookups no longer caching in Redis.
  • INTERNAL: sendmessage service now using distributed nsqd system.
  • BUGFIX: When editing a message that had been transferred from Yahoo, an error was thrown.
  • NEW: You can hide the ID column when viewing a database table.
  • INTERNAL: Many improvements to the admin dashboards.
  • SYSADMIN: Moved several internal services to different machines and duplicated them, for redundancy.
  • CHANGE: Added a pricing FAQ explaining some features of the calendar/events/RSVPs.
  • BUGFIX: When removing/banning/unbanning someone without a display name or user name, and if you have a user name, your user name was improperly displayed as the banned person's name.

January 19, 2018

  • SYSADMIN: Completed reboots of all machines in Phase 1 of Meltdown/Spectre patching.
  • CHANGE: Reformatted the calender event popups and added timezone.
  • INTERNAL: Began migration off using Redis as a work queue. s3server now using new distributed nsqd system.
  • INTERNAL: Updated and added additional features to internal dashboard.
  • INTERNAL: No longer using Redis to store LSN/Index versions for esstreamer.