Groups.io: Changelog

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November 13, 2026

Photos
  • NEW: Images attached to group messages can now be copied to a photo album, from the message, from Manage Attachments or from the Emailed Photos album. As with Files, the copy is kept separately from the message, shows where it came from, and uses Photos storage like any upload. Photos may be resized when they're saved.
  • NEW: A photo can now be deleted from its own page, without opening Edit Photo first. It asks you to confirm, with the same Notify Members option. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/41598
  • CHANGE: On a photo's page, the Edit, Move and Delete buttons were below the photo, so changing one meant scrolling past it. For people who can change the photo, they're now above it; Download and Report stay below. On Emailed Photos, Delete moves up the same way, and Message and Copy to Photos stay below. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/41598
  • CHANGE: The Owner lists on Edit Album and Edit Photo weren't in any useful order; Edit Album sorted by email address while showing names. Both are now in alphabetical order by the name shown, ignoring case. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/41598
  • CHANGE: The Yes button in the Verify Update dialog on Edit Album and Edit Photo had a file icon. It now has the same save icon as the Update button that opens the dialog. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/41598
  • CHANGE: In the New Album and New Sub-Album dialogs, Album Title is now marked as required, and Create stays disabled until the title has something in it. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/41601
  • BUGFIX: Deleting an image from the Emailed Photos album could delete the image itself even when removing it from its message then failed. The image is now only deleted once its message has been updated. The album also now explains that its photos are attachments to group messages.
  • BUGFIX: On the Edit Photo page, pressing Enter in the Name or Description field rotated the photo left and threw away the change being made. Pressing Enter now does nothing. The Rotate Left and Rotate Right buttons were also tiny and sat off to one side; they're now normal-sized buttons centered under the photo, and the page no longer scrolls sideways on phones.
  • BUGFIX: The Edit Album and Delete Album buttons both had a plus sign for an icon. They now have the edit and trash can icons. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/41598

October 16, 2026

Photos
  • BUGFIX: HEIC photos could not be uploaded to a Photos album. Browsers that can't display HEIC, including Chrome and Edge on most Windows computers, don't identify those files as images, so the uploader rejected them with "You can't upload files of this type", and HEIC files didn't appear when choosing photos. HEIC and HEIF photos can now be uploaded to albums, and they are converted to JPEG, as they already were when posting messages. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/41431
  • BUGFIX: In the Sort By menus on the Photos, album, and photo search pages, the up and down arrows next to each choice were the wrong way round, so choosing an option with an up arrow sorted the other way from what you expected and showed a down arrow once the page reloaded. Ascending choices now show an up arrow and descending choices a down arrow, matching the Sort By label and the sort arrows on other pages. On album pages, the arrow in the Sort By label itself was also reversed, and now matches too. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/41299

October 9, 2026

Photos

September 25, 2026

Photos
  • BUGFIX: On the edit photo and edit album pages, the Cancel button came before the Update button, the reverse of the Database pages and the rest of the site. The update button now comes first, followed by Cancel. Also, on a database's settings page, the Delete Table button sat between Update and Cancel; it now sits on the right side, like the Delete button when editing a row. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/41236
  • CHANGE: Sub-albums were hard to tell apart from top-level photo albums. The album list in the Move dialog on a photo's page showed every album by its title alone, in one alphabetical list. It now shows each sub-album's full path, such as Trips › Scotland, listed directly under its parent album. Notifications for a new sub-album now say it is a sub-album and link to the album that contains it. The album summaries on the Photos pages now say 1 sub-album instead of 1 album. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/41261

September 18, 2026

Photos
  • BUGFIX: Photo searches omitted emailed images. Searches now include emailed images for viewers with archive access, and searching within Emailed Photos limits results to that album. Emailed-image results link to their source messages. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/41180
  • CHANGE: The Move Photo dialog now sorts destination albums alphabetically and uses a move icon. Edit Album and Edit Photo now include Cancel buttons. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/41180

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