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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
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
Private vs Public Yahoo Groups
Date: 2019-11-30 10:29 pm (UTC)The defunct FK Yahoo Groups, VachonLovesNickFic and NickLovesLacroix were both open membership groups whose archives could only be read by members. The links lead to their homepages on the Wayback Machine (from 2002 and 2001 respectively).
If you look at the Group Settings on the far right, you can see that "Open membership" and "Archives for members only" are listed separately. This suggests that—whatever the current situation—at one time they were indeed separate options.
Secondly, the Raven Awards Yahoo Group (now a restricted group whose archives are open to anyone) originally had open membership. In 2002 they started to have spam comments, to the despair of the moderator. Evidently people provided off-list advice, because in Post No. 1223 (22 November), the list was taken to restricted status. However, the archives continue to be readable by anyone, presumably because privacy was not an issue.