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September 4, 2026

Design & Accessibility
  • CHANGE: Checked checkboxes and radio buttons on the redesigned admin pages used Bootstrap's default blue, a different shade from the blue used everywhere else on the site. They now use the site's blue. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/41136
  • CHANGE: The remaining old-style checkboxes and radio buttons on the redesigned admin pages now match their neighbors: the Filter menu and the Set Email Delivery dialog on the Members page, the Bcc checkboxes in the reject-message dialogs on the pending message pages, the member label filters on the subgroup pages, the pending subgroup list on the member page, the tax acknowledgment when enabling paid memberships, and the column options in the Extra Member Data column editor. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/41136
  • CHANGE: The Signature editor on the member page, the Bio editors on the account Settings and Group Profile pages, and the description editor on the subgroup category page were still at least 400 pixels tall and could not be resized any smaller, unlike the Group Description and Subscription page Signature editors changed earlier this week. They now size themselves to their content and can be resized down to 200 pixels. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/41134
  • CHANGE: Changed the third batch of web pages from Bootstrap 3 to Bootstrap 5: a group's member-facing pages — the group home page, Hashtags, Calendar, Chat, Database, Files, Photos, Wiki, Donations, Integrations, and the Slack and file sync pages — plus creating a group or subgroup. This is plumbing, not a redesign; the pages should look and behave as before. Messages and the pages outside a group are unchanged.
  • CHANGE: Dialogs on the redesigned admin pages had been slightly narrower than before the redesign. They are back to their original width.
  • BUGFIX: In the image preview on the redesigned upload pages (image columns on database rows, the group profile photo, wiki images), the previous/next arrows and the header buttons of the Detailed Preview dialog were blank. They are back.
  • BUGFIX: Dropdown selectors on the redesigned admin pages, such as Message Moderation on the Settings page, used Bootstrap's default look: squarer corners, a different border color and a blue glow when focused, unlike the rounded, lighter-bordered style of the text boxes next to them and of the dropdowns on the other pages. In dark mode the arrow on those selectors was also nearly invisible. They now match the rest of the site's form controls in both modes. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/41139
  • CHANGE: The select-all and per-row checkboxes on the redesigned admin list pages still rendered as bare browser checkboxes next to the restyled ones: Pending Messages, Members, Sent Invitations, Export Group Data, the Subgroups member grid, and the email, feed, Bluesky, GitHub and Trello integration lists. They now match the other checkboxes. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/41144

August 29, 2026

Design & Accessibility
  • CHANGE: Changed the second batch of web pages from Bootstrap 3 to Bootstrap 5: all of a group's admin pages — Members, Pending Messages, Invitations, Settings, Membership Defaults, Billing, Paid Memberships, subgroup management, and the rest. This is plumbing, not a redesign; the pages should look and behave as before.
  • BUGFIX: On the Pending Messages, Activity, Manage Chat Members and Subgroup Members pages, the search box could sit on top of the list, hiding it — a side effect of the restyling above. Reported on beta within hours; fixed the same evening. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/41063
  • BUGFIX: On phones, tables on the restyled admin pages — most painfully the Activity log — wrapped each row over many screen lines instead of keeping one line per entry with sideways scrolling, the way they had always displayed. The new framework kept the responsive-table class but dropped its phone behavior. One line per row, scrolling sideways, is restored on all the restyled pages. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/41067
  • BUGFIX: Dropdown selects across the restyled admin pages — group Settings, Membership Defaults, Direct Add, member pages, and others — were missing their down-triangle in every browser, and were sized wider than before. A restyling class that suppresses the native triangle (expecting a replacement image that only comes with the correct class for selects) had been applied to some pages but not most. All selects now show the triangle and return to sizing to their content, on every restyled page. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/41076

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