Heads up, folks:
https://help.yahoo.com/kb/SLN31010.html
TLDR: Y! is deleting hosted content for Groups on 14 December; if you or someone you love depends on the service, you'd best get downloading.
If you have time or bandwidth, Archive Team could use your help:
--Kent
Around Maryland and Washington, DC Yahoo Groups are the default civic and school system communication channels. This short notice (new content stops October 21 according to different Y! groups I follow). This should be entertaining (not so much).
All the best, Thomas
On Oct 17, 2019, at 11:17, Kent Brewster kentbrew@gmail.com wrote:
Heads up, folks:
https://help.yahoo.com/kb/SLN31010.html
TLDR: Y! is deleting hosted content for Groups on 14 December; if you or someone you love depends on the service, you'd best get downloading.
If you have time or bandwidth, Archive Team could use your help:
--Kent
They’ll still be acting as a mailing list service, so communication should still work… but no content can be uploaded to the Groups site, and there’ll be no archive of messages.
But given that all public groups will be made private (new subscriptions will require approval from the group admins), and they don’t mention anything about being able to create new groups, it doesn’t sound like they want to be running mailing lists at all.
I’ve been running a Yahoo Groups list for 13 years and if it wasn’t for Twitter, and now here, I’d have had no idea they were going to do this - no communication at all.
Phil
On 17 Oct 2019, at 17:11, Thomas Vander Wal social@vanderwal.net wrote:
Around Maryland and Washington, DC Yahoo Groups are the default civic and school system communication channels. This short notice (new content stops October 21 according to different Y! groups I follow). This should be entertaining (not so much).
All the best, Thomas
On Oct 17, 2019, at 11:17, Kent Brewster kentbrew@gmail.com wrote:
Heads up, folks:
https://help.yahoo.com/kb/SLN31010.html
TLDR: Y! is deleting hosted content for Groups on 14 December; if you or someone you love depends on the service, you'd best get downloading.
If you have time or bandwidth, Archive Team could use your help:
--Kent
— Phil Gyford Tilde: https://tilde.club/~fabius Also: https://www.gyford.com
Thanks for the heads up.
Yeah, absolutely a shitbird move on Yahoo’s part. I’m a member of rugrid-laptop, an old mailing list for Grid laptops, and there’s a trove of archived messages and hosted data there that’d be awful to lose. Gotta get scraping.
On Oct 17, 2019, at 9:23 AM, Phil Gyford fabius@tilde.club wrote:
They’ll still be acting as a mailing list service, so communication should still work… but no content can be uploaded to the Groups site, and there’ll be no archive of messages.
But given that all public groups will be made private (new subscriptions will require approval from the group admins), and they don’t mention anything about being able to create new groups, it doesn’t sound like they want to be running mailing lists at all.
I’ve been running a Yahoo Groups list for 13 years and if it wasn’t for Twitter, and now here, I’d have had no idea they were going to do this - no communication at all.
Phil
On 17 Oct 2019, at 17:11, Thomas Vander Wal social@vanderwal.net wrote:
Around Maryland and Washington, DC Yahoo Groups are the default civic and school system communication channels. This short notice (new content stops October 21 according to different Y! groups I follow). This should be entertaining (not so much).
All the best, Thomas
On Oct 17, 2019, at 11:17, Kent Brewster kentbrew@gmail.com wrote:
Heads up, folks:
https://help.yahoo.com/kb/SLN31010.html
TLDR: Y! is deleting hosted content for Groups on 14 December; if you or someone you love depends on the service, you'd best get downloading.
If you have time or bandwidth, Archive Team could use your help:
--Kent
— Phil Gyford Tilde: https://tilde.club/~fabius Also: https://www.gyford.com
On Thu, Oct 17, 2019 at 12:11:38PM -0400, Thomas Vander Wal wrote:
Around Maryland and Washington, DC Yahoo Groups are the default civic and school system communication channels. This short notice (new content stops October 21 according to different Y! groups I follow). This should be entertaining (not so much).
All the best, Thomas
On Oct 17, 2019, at 11:17, Kent Brewster kentbrew@gmail.com wrote:
Heads up, folks:
https://help.yahoo.com/kb/SLN31010.html
TLDR: Y! is deleting hosted content for Groups on 14 December; if you or someone you love depends on the service, you'd best get downloading.
I wasn't aware that anyone still used Yahoo or Google Groups. I've been subscribed to several, once active groups, but haven't received anything from them in years.
On 19/11/01 05:07PM, tallship@tilde.club wrote:
On Thu, Oct 17, 2019 at 12:11:38PM -0400, Thomas Vander Wal wrote:
Around Maryland and Washington, DC Yahoo Groups are the default civic and school system communication channels. This short notice (new content stops October 21 according to different Y! groups I follow). This should be entertaining (not so much).
All the best, Thomas
On Oct 17, 2019, at 11:17, Kent Brewster kentbrew@gmail.com wrote:
Heads up, folks:
https://help.yahoo.com/kb/SLN31010.html
TLDR: Y! is deleting hosted content for Groups on 14 December; if you or someone you love depends on the service, you'd best get downloading.
I wasn't aware that anyone still used Yahoo or Google Groups. I've been subscribed to several, once active groups, but haven't received anything from them in years.
I think some of the problems with both was it was wayy too easy to set one up, so a lot of folks did it, without thinking about how much work goes into it. Very quickly, interest wanes in babysitting the community, and then silence as people fall away due to lack of curation.
There's something to be said for a little gatekeeping as far as experience needed to start a community.
On 1 Nov 2019, at 23:07, tallship@tilde.club mailto:tallship@tilde.club wrote:
I wasn't aware that anyone still used Yahoo or Google Groups. I've been subscribed to several, once active groups, but haven't received anything from them in years.
I guess, like anything that’s been running for so long, there will be a very high proportion of dormant things in it. But there are obviously a sizeable number still going, some very large. The small Groups.io http://groups.io/, which offers a paid-for solution for migrating a Yahoo/Google group and its archives (of messages, files, photos, etc) has had to double its prices to handle the work- and server-load of huge group transfers: "We are having these massive 5k-10k member groups transfer over right now (or groups with 400k messages)...” <https://beta.groups.io/g/main/topic/36369511#22528 https://beta.groups.io/g/main/topic/36369511#22528>
So while some groups withered over time others, like survival of the fittest, carried on… and the bigger you are the harder it becomes to move to anything else, until that’s the only choice.
Phil
— Phil Gyford Tilde: https://tilde.club/~fabius https://tilde.club/~fabius Also: https://www.gyford.com https://www.gyford.com/
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