Groups.io: Changelog
October 16, 2026
Wiki
- BUGFIX: On the wiki edit page, clicking Discard briefly showed the page's raw HTML before going back to the previous page. The same happened when going back with the browser's Back button from any page with the message editor. The editor now stays hidden while the previous page loads. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/41317
- BUGFIX: In the wiki Image Library, selecting or dropping a file in the Upload File window left an empty preview box, and the window stayed that way for every later upload until the page was reloaded. The selected image now shows in the preview each time. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/41317
- CHANGE: In the wiki Image Library, the Delete button sat between Cancel and Insert. It is now on the left, away from Insert, with Cancel and Insert together on the right. Add New and the Upload File window's Add button now use a plus icon. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/41317
- CHANGE: The Yes button in the wiki's Verify Edit window now uses the same checkmark icon as other confirmation buttons. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/41317
- CHANGE: On the wiki edit page, Page History and New Page left the page without warning, losing any unsaved edits. They now open in a new tab. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/41317
Ask
- BUGFIX: In Ask, after you thanked it and then asked a follow-up, the answer ended with "Nothing in this group's archive matched your search" even though it had answered from the earlier results. The thank-you turn stored no search results, and the follow-up reused that empty set. Follow-ups now reuse the results of the last answer that had any, and the no-results note is only added when a search actually ran. https://beta.groups.io/g/ai/message/177
- BUGFIX: In Ask, a long request that contained a capitalized AND, such as "find all files whose titles include X AND whose content includes Y", was treated as search-engine syntax and sent to the search engine as a literal query, so every word had to match and nothing was found. Only short queries are now treated as search syntax; longer requests are read as questions. https://beta.groups.io/g/ai/message/177
- CHANGE: When you ask Ask to look only in the Files section, it now considers up to 50 matching files instead of 10, so lists of files are less likely to be cut short. Punctuation typed inside quotes, like "pathology," is no longer treated as part of the quoted word. https://beta.groups.io/g/ai/message/177
- CHANGE: Ask now reads the rest of the discussion around each message it finds, not just the message that matched your words, since the answer to a question is usually in the replies. It also ranks what it found before writing, so the most relevant messages are read first.
- CHANGE: Ask answers now cite their sources with numbered links, and every link is checked against the sources Ask actually read before the answer is shown, so a link can no longer point at something that wasn't there. Each answer ends with a Sources list naming the cited messages, wiki pages, and files, with their senders and dates.
- BUGFIX: A very large message or file among Ask's search results could stop every result after it from being read. Each document is now limited to a reasonable length, and one that doesn't fit no longer blocks the rest.
- BUGFIX: Ask answers that took longer than a minute to generate caused the connection to drop and reconnect as soon as the answer arrived.
- BUGFIX: After an Ask question failed, the Post to group button on later answers in the same session could post the wrong answer or fail until the page was reloaded.
- CHANGE: Follow-up questions in Ask make one call to decide whether a new search is needed and what to search for, instead of two, so they start faster.
- CHANGE: Ask questions are limited to 4,000 characters.
- INTERNAL: Ask answers are now cleaned the same way as other member content before being shown. The Ask conversation is sent to the answering model as separate turns rather than one transcript, and stored conversations keep only the newest answer's search results, so long chats no longer grow without bound. Each stage of answering (search, ranking, answer) now logs how long it took.
Subscription
- CHANGE: The only way to leave a group from its home page was the Unsubscribe email address, and the Subscription section at the bottom of the page just said "You are subscribed to this group." It wasn't shown on phones at all. The Subscription section now has Edit Subscription and Unsubscribe links and is shown on all screen sizes. Unsubscribe takes you to your Subscription page and opens the confirmation window, which still offers to switch you to Daily Summary or Special Notices Only instead. The Leave Group buttons on the Subscription page and on the page you reach from the unsubscribe link in group emails are now called Unsubscribe, matching the rest of the site. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/41102
- BUGFIX: On the page shown after you ask to join a group, the group's name in the breadcrumb wasn't a link to the group's home page. It now is. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/41458
- CHANGE: When a group sends a pending member notice to people who ask to join, the page shown after asking to join now tells you that the group managers have emailed you about your request, that you may need to reply before you can be approved, and to check your spam or junk folder if you don't see it. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/41458
Account & Login
- CHANGE: Members whose login had expired landed on the groups.io home page when they went to groups.io, and had to click Log In to get to the login page. They are now taken straight to the login page, as they are when they follow a link to a group page. Members who logged out on purpose, and people who have never logged in, still see the home page, and groups.io/home always shows it. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/41423