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November 6, 2026

Hashtags

• NEW: In the Gallery view of the Hashtags page, a hashtag whose topics expire now has a clock icon. Hover over it to see the duration. Hashtags that keep topics forever don't show the icon. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/41510
• NEW: The Hashtags page has a Topic Statuses button next to New Hashtag that opens the Topic Statuses section of Group Settings, for moderators who can change group settings. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/41511
• CHANGE: The icon for hashtags that only moderators can use is now a person with a shield instead of a "ban" sign, and it has a tooltip in both the Gallery and List views. Both views also show icons, with tooltips, for hashtags that lock topics and for hashtags whose messages are not emailed to the group. Moderators also see an icon for hashtags whose messages are sent as special notices. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/41510
• CHANGE: The Add Tags dialog now also removes hashtags: unchecking one and clicking Apply (formerly Add Hashtags) takes it off the end of the subject. A hashtag in the middle of the subject stays checked, because removing it would change the wording; edit the subject to take it out. The dialog also shows how many hashtags the topic has out of the limit of 5, and once you reach 5 the others can't be checked. Hashtags you typed that aren't in the list count too. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/41508
• CHANGE: On the Hashtags page, the Status badge on status hashtags was a pale blue that was hard to see, especially in the List view next to the blue Edit Tag button. It's now a solid green badge in both the Gallery and List views, with white text in light mode and dark text in dark mode. In the Gallery view it also has a white outline, so it stands out on green and teal hashtags. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/41511
• CHANGE: On the hashtag edit page, the Reply To setting was below Locked and Status. It's now between Replies Unmoderated and Locked, next to the other settings for how replies are handled.
• CHANGE: The Status setting on the hashtag edit page now explains that Group Settings › Topic Statuses decides which topics offer Set status and whether starters are emailed, with a link there for moderators who can change group settings. When a group's first status is created, a message points to those settings. A hashtag checked in Topic Statuses to choose which topics offer Set status can't also be made a status; the edit page says to remove it from that selection first.
• CHANGE: The Add Hashtags dialog, used when posting a new topic, editing a topic, editing a pending message and adding an event, listed status hashtags like any other hashtag, so there was no way to tell that #sold was a status or that it locks the topic. Status hashtags now show the same green Status badge as on the Hashtags page, with a lock icon when the status locks the topic. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/41511
• BUGFIX: The List view of the Hashtags page was meant to show each hashtag's color as a dot beside its name, but the dot had lost its styling and didn't appear. It is back, and matches the hashtag dots in the Topics and Messages filter. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/41510
• BUGFIX: Switching between the Gallery and List views of the Hashtags page sent you back to the first page and reset the sort order. You now stay on the same page with the same sort order. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/41510
• BUGFIX: On the Hashtags page, an alias showed its own duration and settings, which are ignored, instead of those of the hashtag it points to. It now shows the duration and settings of the hashtag it points to.
• BUGFIX: Sorting the List view of the Hashtags page by Duration put hashtags in the order they were created instead of by duration. It now sorts from the shortest duration to Forever (or the reverse), with hashtags of the same duration in alphabetical order. An alias sorts by the duration of the hashtag it points to.
• BUGFIX: The Add Tags dialog, used when posting a new topic, editing a topic, editing a pending message and adding an event, always opened with nothing checked, even when the subject already had some of the hashtags. Checking one of them added it to the subject a second time. The dialog now opens with the subject's hashtags already checked and never adds a hashtag twice. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/41508
• BUGFIX: On the New Topic page, adding a hashtag that has a footer more than once showed its footer more than once below the message, and removing the hashtag from the subject left its footer showing. The footer preview now shows each footer once, for the hashtags that are checked.
• BUGFIX: In groups that let members create hashtags, the Create Hashtag page showed members every hashtag setting, and they could create a hashtag that was moderated, locked topics, expired topics, wasn't emailed to the group, was reserved for moderators or was a status. Members now only choose the new hashtag's name, description and color, and its other settings keep their defaults, as when a hashtag is created by using it in a subject. Moderators who can manage hashtags still see every setting. The same applies to /newhashtag in the API.
• API CHANGE: /updatehashtag refuses markable for a hashtag selected in the group's status_eligible_hashtags, returning bad_request with markable conflicts with status_eligible.

October 30, 2026

Hashtags

• NEW: Owners can make a hashtag a status, such as #pending, #sold or #solved, with the new Status setting on the hashtag's edit page. The Hashtags page shows a Status badge on these hashtags, with a lock icon when the status locks topics. A status can't be combined with settings that would affect later replies in the topic (No Email, Moderated, Replies Unmoderated, Special, Use by Mods Only, Reply Only to Sender, or a Topic Duration other than Forever); the edit page says which setting to change first.
• BUGFIX: On the Hashtags page and an event's RSVP list, the List View tooltip appeared to the side of its icon and covered the Gallery View icon. It now appears above the icon, like the Gallery View tooltip. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/41491
• API NEW: /newhashtag and /updatehashtag accept a new markable parameter that makes the hashtag a status, and returned hashtags include a markable field. A request that combines markable with a conflicting setting returns bad_request with the extra text markable conflicts with <setting>.

October 23, 2026

Hashtags

• CHANGE: On a hashtag's settings page, the description of the Locked setting said that topics *created* with the hashtag would be locked, but topics are also locked when the hashtag is added to them later. It now reads "Topics will be locked when they are tagged with this hashtag. Topics that already have it are not affected." https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/41333