Re: [bolger] Re: The End is Near for Yahoo Groups

Google does groups at groups.google.com.  There's also a site called groups.io that has been suggested by people on a few other Yahoo groups that I read.


On 10/20/2019 6:54 PM,futabachan@...[bolger] wrote:
It might not be government-run, but if it's in the Russian Federation, they're bound by laws that the Russians use to censor the Internet. I had to drop off Livejournal for precisely that reason. What alternatives exist in actually free countries?

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  Kent Multer                                                  |\  /|
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It might not be government-run, but if it's in the Russian Federation, they're bound by laws that the Russians use to censor the Internet. I had to drop off Livejournal for precisely that reason. What alternatives exist in actually free countries?

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Susan Davis <futabachan@...>
Groups.io is an alternate to yahoo groups. Very similar look and feel. I belong to a group that switched and they supposedly have tools that make it easy to migrate conversation threads, files, photo, etc. over to the new platform. Has some improved features as well. It is also free. I personally have never moved or set up a site there, but this is what the mods. report.

Don

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It's not Russian government run anymore than Facebook is US government run; it's run by a company in the Russian Federation. I don't think the RF spies are going to be out to steal our boat plans... 

On Wednesday, October 16, 2019, 05:28:53 PM CDT, Kent kent@... [bolger] <bolger@yahoogroups.com> wrote:


 

I'm not crazy about hosting the group on a Russian government-run site.  Aren't there some other sites that host groups? 

Here's one: https://groups.google.com



On 10/16/2019 4:41 PM,gregmkay@...[bolger] wrote:
Do not forget the possibility of forming a community on VK.com, the second largest social media platform in the world, second only to Facebook, bigger than Instagram, Twitter, etc. Based in the Russian Federation, it has a very international following, works very well on the Chrome browser, plus it has the advantage in that you can normally use Pinterest to pin photos from there. Similar to Facebook but with very little censorship (if that matters to you), there are some differences and a slight learning curve, but it's nothing too hard. The communities there are rich and diverse in nature, and there are hundreds of boating groups from all over already, some with tens of thousands of members. It's worth a shot, plus it's free.
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  Kent Multer                                                  |\  /|
   Magic Metal Productionshttp://TheMagicM.com/| \/ |
   KOBUSHI world percussionhttp://kobushi.com/|    |

I'm not crazy about hosting the group on a Russian government-run site.  Aren't there some other sites that host groups?

Here's one:https://groups.google.com



On 10/16/2019 4:41 PM,gregmkay@...[bolger] wrote:
Do not forget the possibility of forming a community on VK.com, the second largest social media platform in the world, second only to Facebook, bigger than Instagram, Twitter, etc. Based in the Russian Federation, it has a very international following, works very well on the Chrome browser, plus it has the advantage in that you can normally use Pinterest to pin photos from there. Similar to Facebook but with very little censorship (if that matters to you), there are some differences and a slight learning curve, but it's nothing too hard. The communities there are rich and diverse in nature, and there are hundreds of boating groups from all over already, some with tens of thousands of members. It's worth a shot, plus it's free.
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  Kent Multer                                                  |\  /|
   Magic Metal Productionshttp://TheMagicM.com/| \/ |
   KOBUSHI world percussionhttp://kobushi.com/|    |
Do not forget the possibility of forming a community on VK.com, the second largest social media platform in the world, second only to Facebook, bigger than Instagram, Twitter, etc. Based in the Russian Federation, it has a very international following, works very well on the Chrome browser, plus it has the advantage in that you can normally use Pinterest to pin photos from there. Similar to Facebook but with very little censorship (if that matters to you), there are some differences and a slight learning curve, but it's nothing too hard. The communities there are rich and diverse in nature, and there are hundreds of boating groups from all over already, some with tens of thousands of members. It's worth a shot, plus it's free.
"Attention: Starting December 14, 2019 Yahoo Groups will no longer host
user created content on its sites. New content can no longer be uploaded
after October 28, 2019."

https://preview.tinyurl.com/y3k9lay5

or

https://help.yahoo.com/kb/groups/SLN31010.html?impressions=true

Yahoo groups have been even more of a mess lately than they have been,
so I'm not surprised the end is near. <sigh> I successfully moved the
Coots' group to groups.io a while back, and we've been quite happy
there. Messages can be read via email, or on a Web page ;ob . There's
storage for files, photoas and the message archive -- including all the
messages posted to the group while it was on Yahoo. A good service, run
by the guy who started the email lists that became Yahoo Groups long ago.

https://groups.io/g/oregoncoots/

I've heard that you now have to purchase a year of "premium" service to
get a Yahoo group transferred to groups.io. I'll be checking that out
because I have some other groups to move, and it's suddenly become a hot
topic! <g>

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