EXCEL FEED: Re: [smf_addin] Re: Warning: The SMF add-in group may be shut down in the near future

Selasa, 03 Maret 2020

Re: [smf_addin] Re: Warning: The SMF add-in group may be shut down in the near future

Randy, I agree with the poster. I migrated several groups from yahoo to groups.io after researching the options, and in my opinion it's the best available platform. It's reliable, easy to use, and Mark Fletcher is continually updating it.

Peter

On Tue, Mar 3, 2020 at 1:47 AM Randy Harmelink rharmelink@gmail..com [smf_addin] <smf_addin@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

As I mentioned, anyone without posting privileges before the conversion cannot post a message. I get a Yahoo notification that I need to approve or reject the post, but there is no longer any way to do so (smart move, Yahoo!). The message was an attempt to reply to my message, so I'll post the response myself:

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From: HH PackRat <hhpackrat@...>
Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2020 21:34:54 -0600

On 3/2/20, Randy Harmelink rharmelink@gmail.com [smf_addin]
<smf_addin@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
> ... I may shut down and abandon Yahoo Groups.
> There are discussion groups set up on Google and groups.io:
>
> https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/smf-addin
> https://groups.io/g/smf-add-in
>
> groups.io operates very much like Yahoo Groups used operate several years
> ago.

I strongly recommend going the groups.io route. It was created by the
same fellow who developed the original Egroups(?) which was bought
out(?) by Yahoo Groups. That's why it operates nearly identically,
with some additional features. I belong to 9 groups that migrated to
groups.io, and they all seem to work as they used to at Yahoo Groups,
even with the same Files and Photos sections and archives (if these
were migrated as well--I think it now costs a small amount to migrate
the historical stuff, if desired).

I also belong to a Google Groups stock market group, and I do not
particularly care for how Google Groups work. For example, searches
seem limited to about 200 returned matches (which is amazing
considering it's Google). However, each time I performed the exact
same search, I got 200 *different* returned matches (some/many matches
were the same but the returns were not identical). I wish Google
would use its "standard" search engine (the one when you search
Google)--the version they use seems very limited in what it can do.
(And, of course, try contacting Google to mention these areas that
need improvement. I'd swear they deliberately make it impossible for
users to contact them!) Additionally, if you're searching for one
message, Google returns the *entire* topical thread, not just the
single message you were looking for. In other words, if the message
you're looking for was part of a popular thread with lots of messages,
you have to wade through all the returned messages in that thread to
find the one you were seeking. I almost forgot to mention that, like
Gmail (and perhaps other Google products that I'm not familiar with),
messages go in, but you can't get them back out again (that is, you
cannot export them as small groups of related messages, for example).
I don't know if Google Groups operates like Gmail in this respect, but
exporting email from Gmail is an all or none proposition--it's
everything so far or nothing--there's no selective in-between option.
(In other words, it might be the whole database or nothing. I've done
this with Gmail, but you can end up with multiple files 2 GB each in
size--that's the maximum file size Google exports..)

As I said, groups.io operates nearly identically with Yahoo Groups,
and people would feel "at home" there.

Harvey