Railfan Technology > Yahoo Groups Jumping Ship

What's with all the yahoogroups going to Groups.io?

Victor A. Baird
http://www.erstwhilepublications.com

Lot's of continued issues with Yahoo Groups and Verizon, I think who now owns it, does not want to fix the issues.

Some of my ham groups have already jumped ship.

Pat
WA5VRO
South Austin, TX

One of the many Yahoo Groups I belong to that migrated to groups.io recently and explained the move pretty well. I don't recall which group the e-mail came and I can't recall the exact story but basically a guy named Mark Fletcher founded ONElist in 1998 thenchanged its name to eGroups, which was then acquired by Yahoo around 2000 then Yahoo re-branded the groups as Yahoo Groups.

Yahoo has completely screwed up their group platform and neglected to keep it functioning properly so Mark came back to the business and started groups.io, and provided easy migration tools to allow Yahoo Group owners to easily migrate their group to his platform.

So basically, what's old is new again. I would expect most of your groups to migrate from Yahoo to groups.io so get used to it. Yahoo has botched up so many of their services that I'm surprised most of them still even exist.

trainjunkie Wrote:
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> One of the many Yahoo Groups I belong to that
> migrated to groups.io recently and explained the
> move pretty well. I don't recall which group the
> e-mail came and I can't recall the exact story but
> basically a guy named Mark Fletcher founded
> ONElist in 1998 thenchanged its name to eGroups,
> which was then acquired by Yahoo around 2000 then
> Yahoo re-branded the groups as Yahoo Groups.
>
> Yahoo has completely screwed up their group
> platform and neglected to keep it functioning
> properly so Mark came back to the business and
> started groups.io, and provided easy migration
> tools to allow Yahoo Group owners to easily
> migrate their group to his platform.
>
> So basically, what's old is new again. I would
> expect most of your groups to migrate from Yahoo
> to groups.io so get used to it. Yahoo has botched
> up so many of their services that I'm surprised
> most of them still even exist.

Wow, that is very similar to what TrainOrders went through in early years.

It almost seems at times like they are purposely sabotageing it just so it goes away.

Posted from Android

Doug Wetherhold
Macungie, PA

sptno Wrote:
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> Lot's of continued issues with Yahoo Groups and
> Verizon, I think who now owns it, does not want to
> fix the issues.
>
> Some of my ham groups have already jumped ship.
>
> Pat
> WA5VRO
> South Austin, TX

Kind of ironic. You'd think with Verizon owning
Yahoo, they would WANT it to work with their phones!

CZ10 Wrote:
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> Kind of ironic. You'd think with Verizon owning
> Yahoo, they would WANT it to work with their
> phones!

Verizon?
Do something that makes sense?
Do something that is logical?

Surely, you jest!

Don't call me Shirley.

chakk Wrote:
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> Don't call me Shirley.

Just call...

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One group that I am aware, the posters would love to leave Yahoo, but can not find the owner of the site or they will not respond, in order to allow the switch. Nor will the present owner allow new members to join.

Once I went over to the new platform, my yahoo groups having been coming over a few at a time. I note that since the initial sign up I no longer have to do anything. I can log into the new platform with any group that has switched.

Victor A. Baird
http://www.erstwhilepublications.com

Sounds like time to create an io group with the same identity and transfer valued files manually. Lots of Yahoo absentee owners.

Does the Observation Car group on Yahoo still function?

grahamline Wrote:
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> Does the Observation Car group on Yahoo still
> function?

I'm curious about the same thing. I used to be a member, and recall its shift off of egroups and onto Yahoo back around 2000.