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November 13, 2026

Billing

• NEW: The Attachments page, linked from Usage and Billing, is now Manage Attachments. Attachments to group messages usually take up most of a group's storage, and until now the only way to remove one was to edit its message. Manage Attachments lists every attachment, largest first, with its filename, size, sender, message and date, and owners and moderators can delete attachments one at a time, or select up to a page of them and delete them together. Deleting an attachment removes only that attachment: the message text, its other attachments, author and date stay, nothing is emailed to the group, and the deletion is recorded in the activity log. The list can be sorted by size, newest or oldest, and filtered by filename, type, sender, minimum size, and whether a copy has been saved to Files or Photos. Deleting several attachments at once requires the Edit Archives permission.
• NEW: The Sponsor Group page now shows what the group's hosting costs: the next renewal for a premium group, or a year of the Premium plan for a free group. A progress bar shows how much members have sponsored toward it, and the page says when sponsorships already cover it. Before, the page said only that sponsorships would be used to pay hosting fees as needed.
• NEW: The Sponsor Group page has $5, $20 and $50 buttons that fill in the amount. Sponsors can also choose to have their first name and last initial listed on the page, and the page shows the most recent sponsors who chose this. Nobody's name is shown unless they choose it, including past sponsors. The page also now says that sponsorships pay for Groups.io hosting and are not tax-deductible.
• NEW: The new Sponsorships page, linked from Usage and Billing, lists every sponsorship the group has received, with the date, sponsor, amount, status and whether the name is shown publicly, and can download the list as a CSV file. Its Ask Members button starts a new topic asking members to sponsor the group, with the goal and a link to the Sponsor Group page already filled in, for the owner to edit before sending.
• NEW: When Ask Members For Sponsorships is on and sponsorships won't cover the next renewal, the owners now get an email 30 days before an annual renewal or 7 days before a monthly one. It says how much is still uncovered, who will be charged for it, and links to start a topic asking members for help.
• CHANGE: On Manage Attachments, the list can now also be sorted by attachment name, which helps when several attachments share a name. Names are compared without regard to case, and attachments without a name come last. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/41597
• CHANGE: When the Manage Attachments list is filtered, the page now also says how many attachments match and how much space they use, under the totals for the whole group. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/41597
• BUGFIX: On Manage Attachments, sorting by Date put attachments in message-number order, which isn't date order in groups that imported an archive: imported messages keep their original dates but are numbered after the messages already in the group. Sorting newest first ran backwards in time, then jumped forward to more recent dates and ran backwards again. Sorting by Date now uses each message's date. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/41580
• BUGFIX: On Manage Attachments, pressing Filter or Clear put the list back in size order. Both now keep the order you chose. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/41597

November 6, 2026

Billing

• BUGFIX: A group with more members than the free plan allows is locked when it goes back to the free plan, and its subgroups are locked too. Upgrading the group again didn't remove the lock, so an owner who upgraded right after a free trial ended, or after a missed payment, paid for Premium and still couldn't make any changes until they found the Unlock Group button. Upgrading from the free plan now unlocks the group and its subgroups.
• BUGFIX: When no one was set to pay a group's upcoming yearly renewal, the reminder email sent two weeks before said the bill "is set to be paid by ." with no name, and said no action was needed. It now says no one is set to pay, that someone needs to click Set Me As Payer on the billing page before the renewal date or the group will be downgraded to the free plan, and, when it applies, that the group or its subgroups would then be locked.

October 30, 2026

Billing

• BUGFIX: When a group switched billing periods and the cost was covered entirely by sponsorship funds, the invoice was saved without a payment, so it looked unpaid. These invoices are now recorded as paid by sponsorship.
• BUGFIX: When a trial group was set to move to the Free plan at the end of its trial, its billing page didn't say so. The Current Plan panel now shows the date the downgrade will happen.

October 9, 2026

Billing

• BUGFIX: On phones and other narrow screens, the Sponsor This Group button didn't appear on a group's home page, because it's in the Group Information section, which is hidden on small screens. The button now appears below the member count on narrow screens. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/41358
• CHANGE: Switching a group between monthly and yearly billing from the Plans page now asks you to confirm, and shows the amount that will be charged, before anything is charged. Donations now show a Confirm Donation step with the amount before your card is charged. The amount is checked first, and a declined card keeps what you entered and suggests what to try next.
• CHANGE: The page after joining a group with a paid membership no longer reloads every few seconds while the payment is confirmed. It now checks in the background, tells you when your membership is ready, and waits for you to click Continue.

September 4, 2026

Billing

• BUGFIX: When a group went over its storage limit, the site freed space by deleting attachments from its oldest messages. In groups where photos or files took up most of the space, deleting every attachment still would not bring the group under its limit, so this ran every week without ever succeeding: attachments were accepted when posted and then deleted a few days later, leaving messages with missing images and no explanation for the member who posted them or for anyone reading. Messages with attachments sent to a group in that situation are now rejected when they are sent, with a bounce explaining that the group is out of space. Groups where deleting older attachments can still free enough space are unaffected.