Yahoo Groups Shutting Down - Dec 14, 2019 (UPDATED)

[morgandawn]

(Updated Oct 25, 2019)

Starting Oct 28, 2019 no new files (photos, documents, etc) will be allowed to be uploaded. Starting Dec 14, 2019, Yahoo Groups will be limited to emails only - functions like digest will be eliminated and all files and photos will be deleted. Admins will have limited tools and all groups will be invite only. And archives of existing messages will not longer be accessible.

What To Do?

I have a step by step guide here. The short version

1. Admins - back up your Groups and decide whether and where to move
2. Members - back up your Groups - don't leave this to the admins.
3. Everyone - consider documenting Yahoo Groups on Fanlore, help spread the word

The OTW has made an announcement. Their Open Doors preservation program is open to  providing storage of Yahoo Groups backups that are assembled by moderators and non-moderators alike. Details here.

Fans are gathering on a Discord Channel to chat and ask for and give help:  https://discord.gg/ek2xFyJ (updated invite)

Please follow the Yahoo Group Rescue Tumblr for updates

 

Comments

Re: Vid show Playlists

[greerwatson]

I've hit three groups in which membership is restricted but posts are readable and at some point there's a post that says something along the lines of "We've always been a public group, but we're getting spam so I'm putting us on restricted membership". Continued readability may (or may not) have once been an option in such instances.

All public Forever Knight groups I know about have now been entered into that form you link to.

As the old laptop can't take fancy new software, I'm now copy-pasting messages into Notepad and saving as text files. It's slow going, to put it mildly.

However, I have completely collected one Very Important List: fkwarleaders. All the backroom posts by the faction leaders in four wars. It's a restricted group; but, as I was a scribe in the last war, I was admitted to membership. One brand saved from the burning!