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Old October 16th 19, 09:40 PM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
Luke Szczepaniak
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Looks like yahoo groups are shutting down

https://help.yahoo.com/kb/groups/SLN31010.html

"Yahoo has made the decision to no longer allow users to upload content to the Yahoo Groups site. Beginning October 21, you won't be able to upload any more content to the site, and as of December 14 all previously posted content on the site will be permanently removed. You'll have until that date to save anything you've uploaded."

I know there are several owners groups hosted on the service. I guess we need to start looking at alternatives.

Luke
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Old October 17th 19, 12:12 AM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
Frank Whiteley
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On Wednesday, October 16, 2019 at 2:40:53 PM UTC-6, Luke Szczepaniak wrote:
Looks like yahoo groups are shutting down

https://help.yahoo.com/kb/groups/SLN31010.html

"Yahoo has made the decision to no longer allow users to upload content to the Yahoo Groups site. Beginning October 21, you won't be able to upload any more content to the site, and as of December 14 all previously posted content on the site will be permanently removed. You'll have until that date to save anything you've uploaded."

I know there are several owners groups hosted on the service. I guess we need to start looking at alternatives.

Luke


Looks like the neo update broke some of the archiving tools.

Frank
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Old October 17th 19, 02:31 AM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
JS[_5_]
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On Wednesday, October 16, 2019 at 1:40:53 PM UTC-7, Luke Szczepaniak wrote:
Looks like yahoo groups are shutting down

https://help.yahoo.com/kb/groups/SLN31010.html

"Yahoo has made the decision to no longer allow users to upload content to the Yahoo Groups site. Beginning October 21, you won't be able to upload any more content to the site, and as of December 14 all previously posted content on the site will be permanently removed. You'll have until that date to save anything you've uploaded."

I know there are several owners groups hosted on the service. I guess we need to start looking at alternatives.

Luke


Thanks, Luke.
We will migrate the groups I'm involved in managing.
Loks like it'll be Groups.io for the first one.
Jim
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Old October 18th 19, 06:26 AM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
Frank Whiteley
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Default Yahoo groups shutting down

On Wednesday, October 16, 2019 at 2:40:53 PM UTC-6, Luke Szczepaniak wrote:
Looks like yahoo groups are shutting down

https://help.yahoo.com/kb/groups/SLN31010.html

"Yahoo has made the decision to no longer allow users to upload content to the Yahoo Groups site. Beginning October 21, you won't be able to upload any more content to the site, and as of December 14 all previously posted content on the site will be permanently removed. You'll have until that date to save anything you've uploaded."

I know there are several owners groups hosted on the service. I guess we need to start looking at alternatives.

Luke


A couple of options require a paid subscription and it's not clear what they can/will migrate. I've requested a download of group data where I'm owner, but what that will include remains to be seen.

Frank Whiteley
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Old October 18th 19, 04:58 PM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
JS[_5_]
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We had been looking at Groups.io for over a year, since a previous hiccup in Yahoo groups.

The groups.io migration was pretty quick and very easy.

Because of the different layout of the two sites, links in your Yahoo group end up in Databases in the new group. Easy to clean up by using folders, but best to have all links in a folder under the Yahoo links tab first.

You may have to rebuild your calendar.

Messages seem to post instantly, compared to the sluggish Yahoo server.
Jim
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Old October 18th 19, 06:33 PM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
Frank Whiteley
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Default Yahoo groups shutting down

On Friday, October 18, 2019 at 9:58:07 AM UTC-6, JS wrote:
We had been looking at Groups.io for over a year, since a previous hiccup in Yahoo groups.

The groups.io migration was pretty quick and very easy.

Because of the different layout of the two sites, links in your Yahoo group end up in Databases in the new group. Easy to clean up by using folders, but best to have all links in a folder under the Yahoo links tab first.

You may have to rebuild your calendar.

Messages seem to post instantly, compared to the sluggish Yahoo server.
Jim


What about the import of files and photos?

Frank
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Old October 18th 19, 08:07 PM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
JS[_5_]
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Default Yahoo groups shutting down

On Friday, October 18, 2019 at 10:33:20 AM UTC-7, Frank Whiteley wrote:
On Friday, October 18, 2019 at 9:58:07 AM UTC-6, JS wrote:
We had been looking at Groups.io for over a year, since a previous hiccup in Yahoo groups.

The groups.io migration was pretty quick and very easy.

Because of the different layout of the two sites, links in your Yahoo group end up in Databases in the new group. Easy to clean up by using folders, but best to have all links in a folder under the Yahoo links tab first.

You may have to rebuild your calendar.

Messages seem to post instantly, compared to the sluggish Yahoo server.
Jim


What about the import of files and photos?

Frank


Files and photos, and all old posts imported.
For many aircraft-specific groups this is a must. Too much information to lose.
Jim
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Old October 18th 19, 08:41 PM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
Frank Whiteley
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Default Yahoo groups shutting down

On Friday, October 18, 2019 at 1:08:02 PM UTC-6, JS wrote:
On Friday, October 18, 2019 at 10:33:20 AM UTC-7, Frank Whiteley wrote:
On Friday, October 18, 2019 at 9:58:07 AM UTC-6, JS wrote:
We had been looking at Groups.io for over a year, since a previous hiccup in Yahoo groups.

The groups.io migration was pretty quick and very easy.

Because of the different layout of the two sites, links in your Yahoo group end up in Databases in the new group. Easy to clean up by using folders, but best to have all links in a folder under the Yahoo links tab first.

You may have to rebuild your calendar.

Messages seem to post instantly, compared to the sluggish Yahoo server.
Jim


What about the import of files and photos?

Frank


Files and photos, and all old posts imported.
For many aircraft-specific groups this is a must. Too much information to lose.
Jim


Thanks Jim, good to know. I read that e-mail attachments might not have been included. Not a big part of the mix in most of the groups I'm in, but one seemed to have more of those than the others.

Frank

Frank
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Old October 18th 19, 09:37 PM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
Frank Whiteley
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Default Yahoo groups shutting down

On Friday, October 18, 2019 at 1:08:02 PM UTC-6, JS wrote:
On Friday, October 18, 2019 at 10:33:20 AM UTC-7, Frank Whiteley wrote:
On Friday, October 18, 2019 at 9:58:07 AM UTC-6, JS wrote:
We had been looking at Groups.io for over a year, since a previous hiccup in Yahoo groups.

The groups.io migration was pretty quick and very easy.

Because of the different layout of the two sites, links in your Yahoo group end up in Databases in the new group. Easy to clean up by using folders, but best to have all links in a folder under the Yahoo links tab first.

You may have to rebuild your calendar.

Messages seem to post instantly, compared to the sluggish Yahoo server.
Jim


What about the import of files and photos?

Frank


Files and photos, and all old posts imported.
For many aircraft-specific groups this is a must. Too much information to lose.
Jim


Received this method from Bret Hess. Seems to be working and should help with orphaned groups (where owner may have gone west).

I used http://www.personalgroupware.com/downloads..htm to download all the content for our PIK20 group, then put it in a google site + forum + drive. See the results at https://sites.google.com/view/pik20/forum .

Frank
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Old October 21st 19, 07:50 AM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
Patrick McMahon
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Default Yahoo groups shutting down

On Wednesday, October 16, 2019 at 2:40:53 PM UTC-6, Luke Szczepaniak wrote:
Looks like yahoo groups are shutting down

https://help.yahoo.com/kb/groups/SLN31010.html

"Yahoo has made the decision to no longer allow users to upload content to the Yahoo Groups site. Beginning October 21, you won't be able to upload any more content to the site, and as of December 14 all previously posted content on the site will be permanently removed. You'll have until that date to save anything you've uploaded."

I know there are several owners groups hosted on the service. I guess we need to start looking at alternatives.

Luke


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