Yahoo groups is pulling the plug

[pb_lonny]

I think most Yahoo groups have moved to FB or groups.io, I know we moved our DX group in early 2019.

 

[ecps92]

Nope, there are still many an active Yahoogroup out there, who had hopes that Yahell would keep running it.
Now many are closing down and/or moving to Google Groups or Groups IO

I think most Yahoo groups have moved to FB or groups.io, I know we moved our DX group in early 2019.

 

[ka3jjz]

Facebook is another popular option....Mike

 

[pb_lonny]

Personally I have found the quality on FB groups to be fairly low, groups.io seem more "mature"...

 

[N9PVW]

I owned a Dial-up BB called Magic Crystal It started out with just some friends on it, within about 6 months i was averaging around three to four hundred calls per month.. My first dial-up site was Prodigy, own by CBS, IBM, and Sears. We sure have come along way. Before the WWW the company that I worked for used ARPANET, does anyone remember using Veronica and Archie?

 

[ka3jjz]

Personally I have found the quality on FB groups to be fairly low, groups.io seem more "mature"...

I'm quite sure that this is a group by group thing - the FB groups I belong to are, for the most part, very much on topic and not much fluff is tolerated...Mike

 

[ecps92]

Groups - whether it be Message Boards [RR, Interceptor, SNE and the many others], YahooGroups, Groups IO, Google Groups, Microsoft Teams and FacePlant [err CrapBook] - all vary based on the ownership/moderators as well as members. There are those [varies by group] who WANT [lurkers] others to do the research and submissions and only belong to sponge, then there are others who actively contribute [and this applies not just to our Hobby]

I'm quite sure that this is a group by group thing - the FB groups I belong to are, for the most part, very much on topic and not much fluff is tolerated...Mike