After upgrading to 2.7.0.beta1, forum.example.com/g now displays hundreds of groups of two, evidently formed by PMs. The “real” groups are still there, but hard to find. The private groups of 2 are visible only to admins or staff- normal users see only the real groups. Is this intentional? If so, c…

Are you running a third party chat plugin like babble ?

That’s certainly odd. I checked a number of sites running 2.7.0.beta1 and am not seeing the issue. Are you running any custom plugins?

This is an interesting question. I had babble installed for a long time, but did not have it enabled for the past several months. When I upgraded to 2.7.0.beta1, I cleaned up app.yml by removing babble and a few other unused plugins. So I suppose babble created the groups of two? How to clean them …

[image] Mark_Schmucker: So I suppose babble created the groups of two? How to clean them up? They’re all very old- I don’t mind deleting them. I suggest asking for support in the Babble - A Chat Plugin topic.

After upgrade, "/g" is cluttered with PM groups of 2

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Mark_Schmucker (mark78) December 2, 2020, 6:10am 6

After looking over that topic, I decided to re-install babble- but not enable it- and now the groups page is normal again.

In summary, there is nothing wrong with 2.7.0.beta1. The issue is that un-installing babble messes up the groups page.

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After upgrade, "/g" is cluttered with PM groups of 2

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