[hayesnews] Yahoo Screws Groups

[Stuart]

It's all a bit worrying, it puts the forthcoming changes to the Wikia site into perspective. Quite a few groups have ended up losing all of their messages. It would be well worth somehow archiving the messages here should the worst come to the worst.....

wm

--- In peel@yahoogroups.com, "deerlabsky" <deerlabsky@...> wrote:
>
> Hello,
> 
> Some of the posts on the Yahoo! Groups Blog
> <http://www.ygroupsblog.com/blog/>   clarify what will/won't be changed.
> Scroll down to the August 12, 2010 'We're Remodeling' post and (after
> you marvel at people jumping) work your way up from there.
> 
> Before I turn into a certain caller from 'Down the Line' - Bye,
> Dan
> 
> One more thing...thanks for all the posts!
> 
> --- In peel@yahoogroups.com, Philip Edwards <festive50@> wrote:
> >
> > 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]
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
>