Groups.io: Changelog

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October 16, 2026

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

October 9, 2026

Account & Login

CHANGE: The login form, two-factor code, and passkey recovery forms now stay valid for 20 minutes instead of 4. If one does expire, it's shown again with your email address kept and a message explaining what happened, instead of a blank login page.

October 2, 2026

Account & Login

BUGFIX: The "Your Activity" heading on your account's Activity page was always shown in English. It is now translated.
BUGFIX: Members of a group that requires two-factor authentication, who hadn't set it up yet, couldn't add a passkey. It failed with errors such as "Failed to add passkey: The string did not match the expected pattern." Adding a passkey now works for them.
CHANGE: A passkey now counts as two-factor authentication. Adding one satisfies a group's two-factor requirement, just like an authentication app, and the page asking you to set up two-factor now offers both options. If you have a passkey, you can turn off your authentication app even when a group requires two-factor. You can't delete your last passkey while a group requires two-factor and you have no authentication app.
CHANGE: If your only second factor is a passkey, logging in with your password, a login link, or single sign-on now also asks for your passkey, or for one of your recovery codes, before you're logged in. Previously your password alone was enough. Passkeys only work on the site where you added them, so if you added yours on another site (for example, groups.io rather than your organization's own address), you're offered a button to confirm it there. As with authentication apps, logging in with Google or Facebook is no longer allowed for accounts with a passkey.
CHANGE: Logging in with a passkey now always requires your device's fingerprint, face, or PIN. Security keys without a PIN set can no longer be used to log in.
API CHANGE: For accounts whose only second factor is a passkey, /login and /authenticateloginlink now return 2nd_factor_required; supply one of the account's recovery codes in twofactor. /googleloginfinal and /facebookloginfinal now refuse these accounts, as they already do for accounts with an authentication app.
INTERNAL: Disabling two-factor from the support queue or admin now also removes the account's passkeys, and the support queue offers it for accounts that only have passkeys.
BUGFIX: After entering a wrong two-factor or recovery code when logging in, entering the correct code sent you back to the start of login instead of logging you in. You can now try again with the correct code.

September 25, 2026

Account & Login

BUGFIX: The Actions menu on Your Groups could open behind the top navigation bar when only a few groups were listed, hiding some options. It now opens downward by default and flips upward when needed. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/41237
BUGFIX: In your feed, hashtags in Active Topics were shown as link-colored text on a colored background, which was hard to read in light mode, and long hashtag names could break across lines. They are now shown as colored hashtag badges, as in the rest of the site. The badge for members whose first messages are moderated read NuM; it now reads NMM with the tooltip New Member Moderated, as on the members pages. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/41276
BUGFIX: The note at the top of your profile settings is now shown in the same light-blue box as the notes on your other settings pages. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/41276
CHANGE: On Your Groups, the badges showing your posting status in each group (P, M, NP, NMM, MF, and MT) were orange, red, or green, which could make an ordinary setting look like a warning. They are now light blue, like the Mod and Owner badges and the badges in your feed. The members pages that moderators and owners use keep their warning colors. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/41278
BUGFIX: On the login page, clicking Log In without entering an email address just reloaded the page, with no explanation. The email field is now marked with "You must enter an email address." When the email address doesn't have an account, the email field now says so, and it keeps what you typed. A wrong password was shown as a missing password; it now says "Your email address or password is incorrect." with the link to get a login link or set a password.
BUGFIX: Registering with an email address that already had an account could also show a "wrong password" notice left over from the login attempt. Only the "already registered" message on the email field is shown now.

September 4, 2026

Account & Login

BUGFIX: With the editor set to Markdown, the Preview button under the Bio on your Settings page did nothing: the button changed to Edit and back, but the markdown was never rendered. The preview was asking the updates group to render it, which almost nobody has permission to post to, so the request was silently refused. Bios and signatures are now rendered without reference to any group, fixing Preview on the Settings page, the group Profile page, the Subscription page's signature, and a member's signature on the member page. If a preview ever does fail now, it says so instead of leaving you on an empty preview. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/41131

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