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Non-Wargaming Discussion => Chat & News => Topic started by: Raider4 on 18 October 2019, 10:16:54 AM

Title: Yahoo! Groups are being shuttered
Post by: Raider4 on 18 October 2019, 10:16:54 AM
Link (https://www.theverge.com/2019/10/16/20917710/yahoo-groups-deleting-all-content-upload-message-boards-email-communities). Sad, but not surprising.

I'm a member of a few groups, but use of all of them has declined drastically over the last five years or so.

So grab any files/photos/anything else you want from the groups you're a member of before Dec 14th.
Title: Re: Yahoo! Groups are being shuttered
Post by: FierceKitty on 18 October 2019, 10:38:50 AM
Is that the standard term? I'm not familiar with these netty labels.
Title: Re: Yahoo! Groups are being shuttered
Post by: petercooman on 18 October 2019, 02:01:46 PM
Same here, member of the "song of blades" and the neil thomas rules groups.

Will have a browse later on and grab all i want.
Title: Re: Yahoo! Groups are being shuttered
Post by: Dave Fielder on 25 October 2019, 08:49:31 PM
I think the Bloody Big Battles, run by Chris Pringle, will move to something else. Lots of excellent items in there at the moment: https://uk.groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/BBB_wargames/conversations/messages (https://uk.groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/BBB_wargames/conversations/messages)
Title: Re: Yahoo! Groups are being shuttered
Post by: Dave Fielder on 30 October 2019, 01:58:47 PM
Yahoo Groups seemed to have disappeared completely now so all the good stuff that Chris Pringle had in his group is no longer available!  :(
Title: Re: Yahoo! Groups are being shuttered
Post by: Chris Pringle on 30 October 2019, 04:28:31 PM
It will be back - transfer in progress to groups.io
Title: Re: Yahoo! Groups are being shuttered
Post by: Dave Fielder on 30 October 2019, 08:35:56 PM
 :)
Title: Re: Yahoo! Groups are being shuttered
Post by: Raider4 on 13 October 2020, 09:28:22 AM
And the sad remnant of the these Groups are being finally shut down - Link (https://www.theregister.com/2020/10/13/yahoo_groups_shutdown/).
Title: Re: Yahoo! Groups are being shuttered
Post by: DaveH on 13 October 2020, 01:33:33 PM
Not surprising as I don't see how they would be making any revenue from them and the use must have completely died off once the files, etc were removed.
Title: Re: Yahoo! Groups are being shuttered
Post by: GrumpyOldMan on 13 October 2020, 10:09:33 PM
Quote from: DaveH on 13 October 2020, 01:33:33 PM
Not surprising as I don't see how they would be making any revenue from them and the use must have completely died off once the files, etc were removed.

Still it hasn't stopped miniaturewargaming.com resurrecting old posts that point to Yahoo group files ....grrrrrr. Have stopped going there since it just seems to be about click bait now. Might start having a look at the free wargame wiki and weed out entries that point to Yahoo groups.