[hayesnews] Yahoo Screws Groups

[Philip Edwards]

I've just received this from a moderator on another Yahoo Group I belong to.
I don't normally distribute "scaremongering" but I've just gone to the 1st
link in this e-mail and it doesn't look too good.
Is anyone else aware of these proposed changes?
Phil



On 12 September 2010 20:41, Chris B <chrisjbrady@...> wrote:

>
>
> Hi folks.
>
> Are you aware that Yahoo is making big changes to Groups? It seems that
> these have been instigated by a new member of the Yahoo team out to make her
> mark. However she is leading the project to turn Groups into Face Book -
> that is rather than being a topic based system, Groups is to become a people
> based social networking look-a-like. Along with this will be the loss of
> many features including rich-text messages (no HTML / formatting), no
> databases, possibly the loss of links and files and photos. The new system's
> pages are also so top-heavy with s/w that it is causing computers to freeze
> and to crash. In its arrogance Yahoo is refusing to listen to the thousands
> of Group moderators that have in some cases spent many years developing
> their Groups with their thousands of members. CJB.
>
> You should read some of the comments here and post your own, too:
>
> http://suggestions.yahoo.com/detail/?prop=groups&fid=210745
>
> Some comments on the new Yahoogroups look:
>
> 1) The list activity box is gone. This was useful when deciding if one
> wanted to join a group or not.
> 2) The search function is gone. This was useful if it was necessary to show
> what someone had actually said. This may come back later, but it only took 2
> YEARS to get that one fixed last time.
> 3) The "greater than" and "less than" symbols no longer are treated as
> delimiters showing what someone said. As a result entire sections of posts
> are deleted with the comment: "Non text portions removed"
> 4) Internet Explorer is encountering frequent lock-ups when accessing
> messages.
> 5) If you do happen to have a post number and try to use it, you will get
> an entire page of posts, not just the one you want to see.
> 6) No one seems to like it (link:
>
> http://suggestions.yahoo.com/detail/?prop=groups&fid=210745 )
>
> 7) If you want to "vote" on it, it seems like the only option is "thumbs
> up".
> 8) It is much less than ready to use. Many functions, when accessed, give a
> message along the lines of "the piant is still drying on this one".
>
> In short, it's horrible.
>
> Also see the Group [GroupManagersForum]
>
> 
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