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

[doranwen]

Ooh, I had not heard of FanFicFare. Mostly because I use Calibre only when absolutely necessary. I am very picky about organizing my digital files my way, and Calibre states outright that their whole purpose is to organize the files for you. So I use it as a converter when I need one, but not for anything else. However, I may have to change this, because while I'm quite happy with FanfictionDownloader (not the precursor to FanFicFare, but the unrelated program) for ff.n files, there are a couple sites that would be soooooo much easier to grab stories from. I was going to resort to manually creating epubs for those (which I'll still have to for some), which I'm pretty good at, but this will be much faster for at least that handful of sites! So thank you for mentioning that!

For an example of my extreme pickiness about organization, I ended up creating a database this summer just so I could find the fics I wanted to find, and make lists fitting specific criteria easily. One of my friends just laughed when I told her and said "that is so something you would do", lol.

[chrystalline]

Ooooh, it sounds like you and I have a lot in common! Maybe we should take it off morgandawn's comments, and make it a FanFicFare Focused Post.