Yahoo Groups … The End is [eventually] Nigh

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27 October 2020 at 10:00 #503684
Michael Gilligan
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I received an eMail this morning:

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You are receiving this email because you are a member or administrator of a Yahoo Group at groups.yahoo.com.

Dear Yahoo Group Moderators and Members,

We are reaching out to let you know that groups.yahoo.com (Yahoo Groups) and its list service will shut down on December 15, 2020. There will be no changes to other Yahoo properties or services. For example, you will continue to be able to use your Yahoo Mail account as usual and read content on Yahoo sites like Yahoo News.

Yahoo Groups (groups.yahoo.com) has seen a steady decline in usage over the last several years. Over that same period we’ve witnessed unprecedented levels of engagement across our properties as customers seek out premium, trustworthy content. To that end, we must sometimes make difficult decisions regarding products that no longer fit our long-term strategy as we hone our focus on other areas of the business.

Beginning December 15, 2020 the groups.yahoo.com website will shut down and members will not be able to access the website or use its features. We’ve compiled a comprehensive FAQ here that includes alternative providers and information on how this will impact your group content.

Thank you for helping us build one of the earliest digital communities — we’re proud and honored to have forged countless connections over the last 20 years and played a small part in helping build your communities.

Sincerely,
The Yahoo Groups team

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MichaelG.
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27 October 2020 at 10:00 #36133
Michael Gilligan
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27 October 2020 at 10:37 #503692
nigel jones 5
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There goes another wealth of information, what a sad day
27 October 2020 at 10:39 #503693
Peter G. Shaw
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@peterg-shaw75338
I have received perhaps five or six of these messages (I do have a number of active email addresses) including one to an address I know has never had anything to do with Yahoo Groups. Given that they are all active email addresss, I can only assume that Yahoo are using a scatter gun approach to advise everyone.

The other alternative is that since my email service (BT) was originally BT Yahoo, then that is where they have got all our email addresses. I have asked my son and he has not had any so it would seem that this may be the reason for my receipt of multiple emails.

Peter G. Shaw
27 October 2020 at 10:58 #503697
JasonB
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I though most groups that were still active had moved over to Groups.io with all the old posts, files etc moved with them.
27 October 2020 at 11:26 #503705
Ady1
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@ady1
A repository for a couple of thousand years of human knowledge went down the pan because of those fools

I was only on two sites, Drummond M and BB4W and the amount of stuff donated was incredible

Yahoo is the reason I ceased 90% of my online posting, the net is too fickle for serious stuff
27 October 2020 at 12:46 #503725
Brian H
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@brianh50089
I'm with Jason on this one; all of the groups that I'm involved with moved over to Groups io.

Brian
27 October 2020 at 12:53 #503727
Bazyle
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@bazyle
Ady – you do know that the Drummond group plus files is on groups.io and very active, sometimes too active.

The 'forum substitutes' that are in my view really crap are the Facebook groups. No easy files access, photos etc just disappear off the bottom in a few days. Like the platform they are on most of the postings are very shallow and the posters often rather weak. I try form time to time to point them over here but I guess if it's not an app on their phone they can't understand it.
27 October 2020 at 12:57 #503729
Emgee
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@emgee
As a Yahoo Group Owner I still keep receiving email requests from people wanting to join the groups, I simply direct them to the iO group where the info from Yahoo was moved to.

There was no reason why any information was lost if group owners acted in good time to transfer the relevant group to iO. In the early days of transfer it was FOC but because of the additional capacity required iO groups made a charge for the service.

Emgee
27 October 2020 at 13:01 #503730
Emgee
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@emgee
Posted by Bazyle on 27/10/2020 12:53:34:

Ady – you do know that the Drummond group plus files is on groups.io and very active, sometimes too active.

The 'forum substitutes' that are in my view really crap are the Facebook groups. No easy files access, photos etc just disappear off the bottom in a few days. Like the platform they are on most of the postings are very shallow and the posters often rather weak. I try form time to time to point them over here but I guess if it's not an app on their phone they can't understand it.

Hi Bazyle

Agree to some extent with your statement ref Facebook but the files are easily available if you go to the Group Homepage, Files are in a separate folder.

Emgee
27 October 2020 at 13:49 #503736
Bazyle
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@bazyle
Ah, thanks Emgee
27 October 2020 at 16:11 #503761
old mart
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@oldmart
I was a member of the Smart & Brown group for some time, it was invaluble for technical information and had many photographs of all S&B lathes.Such a shame it has come to an end.
27 October 2020 at 17:41 #503776
Emgee
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@emgee
Hi Old Mart

Smart & Brown group here **LINK**

Emgee
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